Yeah, this is the example I’ve been using to convince people that the game engines are almost certainly generating training data but are probably not involved at sampling time. I can’t come up with any sort of hybrid architecture like ‘NN controlling game-engine through API’ where you get that third front leg. One of the biggest benefits of a game-engine would be ensuring exactly that wouldn’t happen—body parts becoming detached and floating in mid-air and lack of conservation. If you had a game engine with a hyper-realistic cat body model in it which something external was manipulating, one of the biggest benefits is that you wouldn’t have that sort of common-sense physics problem. (Meanwhile, it does look like past generative modeling of cats in its errors. Remember the ProGAN interpolation videos of CATS? Hilarious, but also an apt demonstration of how extremely hard cats are to model. They’re worse than hands.)
In addition, you see plenty of classic NN tells throughout—note the people driving a ‘Dandrover’...
Yeah, I mean I guess it depends on what you mean by photorealistic. That cat has three front legs.
Yeah, this is the example I’ve been using to convince people that the game engines are almost certainly generating training data but are probably not involved at sampling time. I can’t come up with any sort of hybrid architecture like ‘NN controlling game-engine through API’ where you get that third front leg. One of the biggest benefits of a game-engine would be ensuring exactly that wouldn’t happen—body parts becoming detached and floating in mid-air and lack of conservation. If you had a game engine with a hyper-realistic cat body model in it which something external was manipulating, one of the biggest benefits is that you wouldn’t have that sort of common-sense physics problem. (Meanwhile, it does look like past generative modeling of cats in its errors. Remember the ProGAN interpolation videos of CATS? Hilarious, but also an apt demonstration of how extremely hard cats are to model. They’re worse than hands.)
In addition, you see plenty of classic NN tells throughout—note the people driving a ‘Dandrover’...