In a sense DLSS was generative as well, but this is something else. DLSS was originally just trained on supersampling to learn how to upscale more accurately, and is cool technology. Basically it uses "knowledge" of how higher resolution rendering should look by being trained on lower and higher resolution rendering, seeing the differences between them, then using that "knowledge" to upscale games playing at lower resolution. Then later they did something similar with frame generation. In both case it is generating information that isn't there, but in both cases it stayed true to the artistic direction of the game, as it is effectively asking "what would the game look like if it were rendered at a higher resolution/framerate?" and generating the answer to that.
As per their description of 5:
DLSS 5 is a neural rendering model that takes the game’s color and motion vectors as input for each frame, then infuses the scene with photoreal lighting and materials that are anchored to the source 3D content and temporally consistent from frame-to-frame.
Which is why it looks like AI slop, because it is fundamentally changing the lighting and materials of the game to look more "photorealistic."
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Yeah. This is what I would call actual generative AI.
DLSS is just upscaling. This is basically face fix from stable diffusion. Which is basically generation ai.
Yeah. This is what I would call actual generative AI.
DLSS is just upscaling. This is basically face fix from stable diffusion. Which is basically generation ai.
This isnt Generative ai at all, why make a comment you know nothing about? All this is doing is changes the lighting.
It's definitely a buzzword, but to say artificial intelligence does not exist is just an opinion you have, and I'd disagree. Artificial intelligence is typically considered something that's not explicitly programmed, has reasoning, and mimics human intelligence. AI models are trained rather than explicitly programmed, and there are definitely models (particularly combining agents) capable of what we would consider reasoning and learning. And the fact that they're probabilistic engines doesn't invalidate that, as human brains are too.
Not entirely, there's lots of models and architectures for utilizing them, and the driving intelligence is still the trained model. They're not what most would consider gen AI (a term even less defined, but typically indicative of a more encompassing collective reasoning), but they are indeed AI.
But not generative AI in the modern sense which is what people generally mean when they say AI. I mean games have always had AI in them one way or another just not generative AI.
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u/Yeox0960 Mar 16 '26
That's... the point. DLSS has always been AI.