Recently, games have established themselves in scaling technologies FSR from AMD and DLSS from NVIDIA. Jensen Huang says he can no longer imagine graphics without artificial intelligence.
During a speech at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia+ technology conference in San Francisco this week, Huang spoke about the benefits of AI in various industries. When asked which of these use cases he was most excited about, the NVIDIA CEO replied:
«In our company, we use this for computer graphics. We can no longer create computer graphics without artificial intelligence. We calculate one pixel and output the other 32. I mean, it’s incredible. …We «hallucinate», if you will, these other 32, and it seems stable, photorealistic, the image quality is incredible, the performance is incredible».
While it is technically possible to create graphics in games without AI, Jensen Huang is probably referring to its ever-increasing hardware requirements. Consequently, the need for scaling technologies is growing.
«Calculating one pixel takes a lot of energy. Outputting the other 32 pixels requires very little energy, and you can do it incredibly fast. So one of the conclusions is [the need] to learn and use» models,” Huang says.
Reducing the load on the GPU by creating additional frames using artificial intelligence, as DLSS Frame Generation does, has also been a game changer since the technology’s inception. FSR, AMD’s competitive solution, is still a compute-based approach to scaling. However, there is speculation that the RDNA4 architecture could get an AI-based hardware method to compete with NVIDIA and Intel solutions.
However, looking at the bigger picture, artificial intelligence certainly has more practical benefits than just making our games look better and running faster:
«If it were not for artificial intelligence, the work we are doing in robotics, digital biology… almost every biotech company I meet today is built on NVIDIA. Small molecule generation, virtual screening. I mean, this whole field is going to be redefined with computer-assisted drug discovery through artificial intelligence. So, there’s incredible work going on there,” Jensen Huang continued.
Although in some areas of application, artificial intelligence is criticized: «hallucinating», false search results, etc., in others, the technology works. And now it is hard to imagine games without scaling technologies.
Source: PC Gamer
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