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wen_mars t1_irk6ae6 wrote

Reply to comment by Tanglemix in We are in the midst of the biggest technological revolution in history and people have no idea by DriftingKing

AI and a graphics tablet aren't mutually exclusive. You can sketch with the tablet and add as much detail as you want, and then let the AI do the rest.

You're putting a lot of words into my mouth but I'll address your last two paragraphs. AI's ability to follow directions has improved tremendously over the past several years. I think it will continue to improve and get close to AGI-level performance on a wide range of tasks this decade. For actual AGI my guess is next decade.

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Tanglemix t1_irkinh2 wrote

I've seen people using very simple sketches as prompts which work ok to get fairly simple compositions that try to match the sketch. I haven't yet seen examples where the inital sketch is more sophisicated and includes things like specific lighting or perspective foreshortening- but you may be right that some hybrid input of human plus AI may evolve in the future- it's an interesting idea.

I'm less convinced on the AGI side. At present AI Art is a kind of trick- it looks impressive but is less than it seems to be because the AI has no actual understanding of the things it is depicting- it deals in patterns of pixels that correlate to word combinations- it has no idea that these patterns represent volumes in 3D space that have surface material qualities that interact with the light sources in the scene.

To be a truly viable substitute for human artists AI would have to move beyond 2D and be able to understand that the scenes it generates are abstractions from a 3 Dimensional reality.

I can at least imagine a sort of autonomous version of Blender or 3D Max that in response to a prompt then builds a complete 3D scene, including geometric objects, textures, materials, light sources and volumetric effects like mist and ariel perspective- and from this render 2D images from any perspective desired.

The thing I find harder to imagine is how such a system could conjure 3D representations of imaginary objects and scenes that do not exist- where would the training data come from to make this possible?

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wen_mars t1_irkunsa wrote

I don't know where they source the training data from but we can already see early examples of AI that can generate 3D models from 2D input.

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Tanglemix t1_irp3vk9 wrote

I have seen those and they are amazing-but seem to rely on multiple images of the same existing object to generatethe 3D model

The real trick would be to create a convincing 3D model from a single image of something that did not exist- something imaginary.

If an AI were able to do this it would be replicating what a human concept artist might do when presented with a single sketch as a starting point.

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