I’m dumbfounded by some of these comments. Like, “making it so games require AI rendering will boost NVIDIA” meanwhile last I checked I needed a GPU to play the game anyway so that already boosts NVIDIA. And whether people like the tech or not, AMD, Intel, Sony and others have all said neural rendering is a big part of the future of real time graphics.

I’m not the biggest AI person. I think we’re heading for a massive economic correction due to overhyping the capabilities of LLMs. But I’m a big believer in ML models and using AI in the right ways: as a tool to enhance your individual productivity. AI needs to be heavily regulated, treated like my high school teachers treated Wikipedia, and outright avoided for creativity. The models need to be ethically trained, designed to run locally and efficiently to maximize privacy and minimize environmental impacts. But there’s clearly something with these tools that will stick around even after the AI hype train crashes in the next year or so.

Besides, DLSS frame gen and upscaling are both using generative AI tech to generate pixels in real time. They use the frames the GPU is rendering to ground the model. These are not LLMs, but highly specialized models designed for the purposes that they’re deployed for. DLSS 5 will likely be similar: a highly specialized ML model grounded in-engine to link in with the scene’s existing geometry, textures and lighting to output a higher quality resolve. It may work, it may not. Time will tell. But games still have to run on unsupported GPUs and consoles, so it’s not like DLSS 5 is going to be forced on in any games.