johnwildauer

@mattworkman DLSS6

the Unreal Engine 6 mannequin needs to have some sort of a face. Just a brow and nose would be a start. NOT just a smooth helmet head. most 3D artists won’t like the reason why

and all of them happened when i was in alaska

i’ve only had a handful of mosquitoes since i moved to colorado

@thedms14 @chamath stop acting like @chamath personally held a gun to people’s heads and forced them to participate unwillingly own your choices or get out of the arena

@chamath Rich coming from the guy who plundered the bank accounts of countless Middle class investors with your scam SPACs

100% in California would support competent politicians who didn’t plunder our state budget of hundreds of billions. PS - state pensions are bankrupt and they are hiding it from you.

if on-prem is the future, then model companies should make fine tuning into a service where users can bring their own data with rolling updates every month/quarter i could see google/openAI/etc offering an off-prem versions of this and wrapping it into their existing ecosystem of products

New agent technology dropping at a consistent pace… Notion, Google and Microsoft all dropped respectable agents in the same week. I’m going to stay in the minority of users and focus on making the cross-platform, open source project @openclaw work OC with API access to the SaaS startup stack (Notion, slack gsuite zoom etc) and an open source model running on local silicon is the goal. I feel like the big prize for startups is in owning your data, the front end, your corporate memory and refining proprietary skills. I might be wrong — thoughts?

imagine a world where everyone gets a full body preventative MRI scan every year, overseen and examined by a doctor/radiologist, double checked and verified by a neural network trained on the sum of depersonalized data from willing participants (this can be incentivized, especially early on - allow use of image data to help this better all of humanity and you get 2 free scans/years, etc.) what is the value of catching virtually every disease, cancer, or health issue before it shows itself?

@chamath when people think of AI this is what they should think of first LLMs are just a small part of the picture, similar to how games/gaming is just a fraction of the usefulness of general computing this stuff here is the stuff that matters

Four years ago, I invested ~$40M and got involved helping build a small publicly listed company in Canada called Perimeter Medical. Why? They were trying to build an AI enabled device to help doctors do cancer surgeries better: take a tumor out from a patient, analyze it with AI while still in the surgical theater and tell with precision if all the cancer was taken out. If yes, close the patient up. If not, go back and get all the cancer. Well, we got FDA approval today!! Our product, Claire, became the FIRST FDA-approved AI-enabled imaging device for breast cancer surgery. We also got Breakthrough Designation. Currently, ~20% of women face repeat surgeries because surgeons "didn't get it all". What’s even worse is that they typically don’t find out for 10 days after the surgery until pathology has reviewed the resected tumor. That is 10 days of waiting and worrying for patients. Claire’s real-time AI + OCT tech delivers 10x the resolution of standard X-rays, identifying suspicious tissue during a surgery so surgeons can act immediately. Claire is now a regulated tool that sits in the workflow, in real time, while a surgeon is operating. It is just the start for what this platform can do for cancer care. We will first focus on ~300,000 breast cancer surgeries per year in the U.S., and then grow into other solid tumors over time. From a systems perspective, it’s also what “real AI” looks like: invisible to the patient, indispensable to the clinician, and measured in fewer surgeries  and better treatment experience .   Congratulations to @adrianvmendes and the @perimetermed team.

“i’ll add it to the list!” yeah right.. more like, “due to my personal discomfort with expressing mild disinterest i will be lying to your face in order to move the conversation forward thank you”

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@Jason what’s the biggest pain point with your openclaw setups? i want to take a crack at it

Agents everywhere... in notion, slack and claude cowork. Excited to see if this NOTION effort does a better job than my OpenClaw agents

how much do i have to pay to not watch this svedka commercial during the olympics again?

live, laugh, lobotomize me

understanding the fundamental skillsets (painting light and shadow, modelling with clean topo/uv, camera placement, mise en scene, etc) are still incredibly valuable - these just enable better understanding of what tools are available and how to use them barring the ethical considerations of training data (above my pay grade), I'm not seeing how this doesn't just boil down to A -> B comparisons along the good/fast/cheap metrics we already evaluate every pipeline with

perhaps? I assumed so based on the other comment mentioning zbrush - but I'm more interested in how well you could translate the idea from your mind (or a clients mind) to the image/model/output/etc, and how well it hits the desired target becomes very easy to cost-benefit analysis of that compared to "traditional" (let's just say, non-AI toolset) workflow

attention 3D artists: is is 3D art or AI slop?

@mattworkman i mean if that's the extent to which neural networks were used in this, there's basically no difference between that and using other computer generated techniques e.g. perlin noise

what if the wrinkle stamp brush I used in ZBrush for the high poly was AI generated? slop now?

@mattworkman i think the questions I'd rather have answered are; how well were you able to art direct this, or how responsive was it to design changes you wanted to make? how much post/cleanup required before getting it in-engine (target being real-time)?

hmmm are those mooshy details a bad high poly to low poly bake? or are they gen AI 2D? or Gen Ai 3D? hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

@GraceSpelman spill

made the mistake of asking my bf to name his six favorite pokémon thinking it would only take a few minutes

@timrwild github.com/kickstarter/ki…

Is this the new benchy?

@mattworkman I usually soft reference the objects, especially if I want to selectively load certain items - are you using the Asset Manager?

with Data Assets in UE5, do we use soft references to assets like a textures and async load them in like DataTable rows? Or just hard reference and async load the whole DA?

@tobi hope you can get on a track again somewhere soon!

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