What is going to happen next? Graphics and AI

[DreadStunLock]

At some point in probably less than 500 years they will probably have graphics to the point of you can't make it anymore real than it is right? Ok, let's make it a 1000.


What will they do next? Create a lot more advanced AI? Or simplify it to the point of where you can create real life graphics in a very fast pace on a quite an old computer?

[knooger]

We will not exist anymore.

[Spekkio]

Dunno about 500 years from now, but even today you can see a shift for the focus of technology to making everything smaller and more portable.

[DreadStunLock]

Well the graphic improvement has to stop somewhere, you can't get better graphics than real life skin.

Also why is it that so far people try to make human skin as close to real as possible, yet we still see it as digital, that is so weird, my friend said it's because a small chunk of human skin has got like millions of light photons or something like that???? oO

[Wh1tE_Dw4rF]

Probably because your PC screen uses pixels. Once they find a way to make a screen without building it out of pixels but more as a whole image, skin will be skin.

[DreadStunLock]

That's actually really interesting.

PC mode:

Pixels

Molecules

:D

But I am sure there has to be a way of making pixels a lot smaller, maybe quadriply smaller one more time? Or maybe even under a microscope Oo

[puuusianka]

There is also the perspective thing. The things look unreal to us because we don't feel the 3D distance of them. I think the graphics won't get any better from now on. They will concentrate on enlarging the distance that is to see with a better rendering and also I think my bro told me that he read in some magazine that they already are workin on some kind of a new rendering that is not going to render the things that are not in our sight or sth like that. They will also work on more and more interactive worlds.

When it comes to AI. I wonder if I'll live to the day when you will talk to the AI through microphone and it will respond.

[DreadStunLock]

AI I think is only possible if they manage to do something like a "Brain in a jar" or something of radioactive mutation of some sort. Mechanically I don't think it will ever work like that.

Perspective render they are working on is a bit something more complicated than what you said I think, because we can do that now with 3ds max, all you need to do is add blur/fog scenario to your distant objects.

[puuusianka]

Ye I realise it's more complex then that but the thing is it's suppose to boost the performance speed in games. When it comes to AI. You're wrong. There are already contests in which programmers create a chatroom bot. The one that is the longest to pretend to be the human without being spotted wins. You can talk with them just like with a normal human.

[DreadStunLock]

Nope, chat room bots respond to the stuff you write to them, for example, if you say "Hi" to them, it's in their code that there is 25% chance they will say "Hi" another 25% to say "Hello" another 25% to say Hey, another 25% to say "What's up" or something.

Chatroom bot, is nowhere near of what AI is. I am talking about AI that can think on it's own like we do, not by percentage or chance.

[puuusianka]

I don't think they will ever make an artificial inteligence that will have normal brain. They will do an AI based on chance setting but what it'll have is that it ll be able to set the chances itself basing on the beginner sets and failures that it'll make when "learning".

I am not talkin about those bots that you encounter on normal chat programs from time to time. The one I'm talking about is something much more inteligent. I'll try to find a link or sth to show you what it is, if I have some time and determination.

[Spekkio]

Well, do people want their video games to look absolutely real? After all, it's a game in a fictional world...using real actors can ruin that experience, especially when the characters do a lot of not-so-real things.

[Farley4Fan]

Honestly having true-to-life visuals (especially once virtual reality advancements are made - perspective is important), what would separate games from real life?  People would be caught up in the game, fully immersed, and it could be really disturbing shit.  The only thing that would ruin total immersion would be cheesy writing or something along the lines of that.  I honestly believe games in the future could be detrimental to society.  Kind of like inception or matrix where you get caught up in fake worlds and forget reality.

[DreadStunLock]

We can get the spinner thingies to see if we are in the real world or not :)

[NeoSuperior]

i think the best possible graphic will be around "3d hd tv" quality or something like that. So the games' ingame graphic (not just cutscenes) will be like watching a movie.