Computer, define millenial
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Honestly, I donât like either part of the phrase âAI Artâ which is why I prefer to call them image generators or some variant thereof. They are not intelligent and they do not (cannot) produce art. I feel incensed if someone tries to fob them off as finished art.
But they do make pictures, and those pictures can serve as grist for creative work, much in the way that I use random name generators to flavor my rpgs or oblique strategy cards when I write.
That said, leaving the output of a computer unaltered just screams laziness. I wouldnât find âAI artâ people so tiresome if they simply did something to the images their computers generated. If youâre not willing to learn how to draw trending on artstation, at least learn how to photoshop better hands onto your gestalt anime smut.
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horrifying
how is it a game though
like what do you do
is it just the sims but even more ugly
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The authentic Millennial experience:
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it is hilariously on brand for john carmack to resign from a ghoulish company like facebook because the gpu efficiency of a product he was involved in was not up to par
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carmack doesnât work with anyone else who is not a true tool user like him
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That has the same tone as that new james cameron interview where he says he doesnt watch movies because he can dream them instead
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He may have updated this later:
[edit: I was being overly poetic here, as several people have missed the intention. As a systems optimization person, I care deeply about efficiency. When you work hard at optimization for most of your life, seeing something that is grossly inefficient hurts your soul. I was likening observing our organizationâs performance to seeing a tragically low number on a profiling tool.]
It sounds like a standard corporate ennui in a middling product resignation to me
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an officially licensed Vietnam era Day of Defeat game by a Russian team just dropped on Steam after 5 years of development because Valve gave them the CSGO source code and they added all kinds of fancy graphical effects to source 1. pretty strange, a very 2006 series of events, and the game really is just day of defeat source: vietnam
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hmmm, having worked on optimization of code for a bit, I somewhat understand his frustration.
If thatâs what makes your heart beat, the laissez-faire attitude of e.g. SAP-devs (âjust pack another 8GB RAM on top of itâ) can be Soul(s)-destroying.
Would be interesting to see/read how much processing power is wasted due to metrics being sent home, and whether he fought against it â and if so, if that was a reason as well (surely heâd be NDAâed from saying so, wonât happen soon i guess)
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Sorry, what is Carmack actually complaining about here? Literally shipping unoptomized code / wasted hardware resources or inefficient human resources / team process. And if its the later how likely is it heâs just upset at engineers for whom this is just a day job, and not some holy calling, not working 12 hour days + weekends. Not that meta couldnt be mismanaging projects while also overworking people, I just instinctively recoil at his comparing the organization to a GPU as if the people working under him have more energy he could wring out of them if only his control over them was tighter.
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the cool thing about the statement he made is that he still goes out of his way to stress how great of a company meta is
in case there was any doubt what kind of person he is
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heâs complaining about how much eng time is wasted, doesnât say what on but âkill stupid ideasâ sounds like itâs technical direction/roadmap stuff. guessing he found out how reputation+eng skills wonât get you past a soft skills challenge when youâre not in charge
putting on my extreme pedant hat (oh I was already wearing it): he says theyâre a great company specifically for being in a position to solve VR. given heâs leaving, it cant be that great of a company, actions > words &c
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i mean Iâve seen the inefficiency carmack is taking about firsthand but you know, heâs so carmack-y that it will never affect anything more than wanting to make VR a mass market thing for him
like I see whatâs happening there and feel like thereâs no moral way to take that much money to make the thing I was making, it was that mediocre - just expand that to the whole company and there you go, âinefficiencyâ
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ooo I bet theyâre announcing that theyâre switching engines!
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what if they just announced that it was delayed
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itâs always moral to take money from these businesses for whatever shitty project they want. you will spend it on things more useful to people than they will. immoral to pretend the project is good tho, and definitely frustrating and unfulfilling creatively
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