What is “AI upscaling” in video game development?

But the point remains - as it does with ALL AI - that you can’t really trust it not to do something very strange.

So the idea is that you train an AI to look at just (say) 1 million pixels - and try to guess what the others should be.

There are landing aid lights which are super-bright so you can see them from a very long way away. One type of these lights are on the ends of the runway and they are designed to show whetherer you’re approaching the runway on the right “glide slope” - so they change color depending on how high/close you are to the touchdown point.

I can’t get any girl I want, but I can just get some not my type of girls, so I feel I’m so ugly. What should I do?

That’s A VERY BAD THING!!! When you’re trying to train a pilot to react correctly to those lights and they’re being displayed incorrectly - you can end up doing what we call “Negative training” - where you make the pilot WORSE - not better!

The AI might MAYBE notice that the light was there on the previous frame and “fill it in” - but what happens if you went off the glide slope at that moment. The light SHOULD change color - but because the AI doesn’t know anything about the glide slope - or the particular angles at a specific airport - it’s highly likely to screw up.

So usually - if you’ve got an 8 MegaPixel screen - the graphics card has to calculate the color of every single one of those 8 million pixels (maybe more with anti-aliasing) - probably 70+ times per second.

Mexico prez calls for no ICE action at Gold Cup - ESPN

So using this technique could be very handy.

So if we render the scene at reduced resolution - we might not draw that critical light point at all because it fell into one of the gaps.

But there are issues.

You're more likely to be struck by lightning than the Pacers were to win their playoff comebacks - NBC News

I’ve been working in Flight Simulation -where this problem is massively exacerbated by clients who have maybe 16 display screens - all at some crazy high resolution!

But that’s a kinda special situations - and we could maybe handle it by drawing those specific lights AFTER the AI had filled in all the gaps.

However, consider a common thing people to with flight simulators…practicing landing at night.

Hayley Williams Reacts Angrily to Michael Tait Christian Music Scandal - Variety

These light points are tiny - they only just cover a single pixel.

That’s a hell of a lot of math - and as display resolutions and frame rates get better - the problem rapidly escalates.

I’ve seen demo’s from Nvidia that do this AMAZINGLY well.

The Upsetting Truth About What Wildfire Smoke Does to Your Body - Gizmodo