<story><title>Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/88nbpa/nvidia-reveals-its-ceo-was-computer-generated-in-keynote-speech</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>christophilus</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t think of a time when I&amp;#x27;ve been fooled by CGI (though, of course, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be aware of being fooled if I was, so it&amp;#x27;s a catch-22).&lt;p&gt;I &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; hate when movies throw in a CGI character expecting it to come off as real. It pulls you out of the movie in a way that normal over-the-top action CGI doesn&amp;#x27;t. I remember watching the recent Star Wars movies and being jerked out of the flow by CGI Princess Leah and some other characters (whoever the villainous old man was in that movie).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d be interested to see any videos of CGI faces that can fool experts.</text></item><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>If you follow the &amp;#x27;VFX artists react&amp;#x27; series on YouTube you learn what give CGI humans away pretty easily. Getting CGI humans right is very difficult and few VFX houses, with decades of experience, get it right even with post processing, let alone doing it in real time.&lt;p&gt;CGI Jensen looks like he came out of a 2009 videogame. Nvidia may have the tech but you can tell it lacks the artistic supervision of a proper VFX house so the end result looks like something their engineers put together in a last minute crunch (which is probably what happened).</text></item><item><author>jstanley</author><text>I was going to comment something like &amp;quot;yeah, yeah, everyone&amp;#x27;s an expert, it&amp;#x27;s easy to say you can spot the CGI once you&amp;#x27;ve been told it&amp;#x27;s there&amp;quot;, but then I looked at the video and... wow, that really is a pretty weak showing!</text></item><item><author>nightcracker</author><text>The correct timestamp of the CGI is here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=eAn_oiZwUXA&amp;amp;t=3761s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=eAn_oiZwUXA&amp;amp;t=3761s&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;#x27;s only ~14 seconds of CGI.&lt;p&gt;And it&amp;#x27;s a pretty weak showing. The stiff animation and bad lip sync immediately gives it away to me. And the fact that the CGI Huang is shown ~15 times smaller than the real one is very damning.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s not clear exactly which part of the keynote speech features CGI Huang (which is what makes the replica so impressive), but if you jump to this part of the presentation you can see Huang magically disappear and his kitchen explode into multiple different 3D models.&lt;p&gt;So how much was Vice paid for this article?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Unit520</author><text>Slightly off-topic, but still anecdotal how far CGI has come, I recently showed my dad who hasn&amp;#x27;t played any video games for at least 20 years this [0] video of the current MS Flight Simulator. It is produced in a documentary style, so there are no real cues to it being a game. After watching it together, my dad said: &amp;quot;Yeah that&amp;#x27;s a nice documentary about this difficult airport, but I thought you wanted to show me that new game?&amp;quot;.
You can imagine his face when I told him that we&amp;#x27;ve in fact watched just that.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=UtAF1I_H01w&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=UtAF1I_H01w&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en/article/88nbpa/nvidia-reveals-its-ceo-was-computer-generated-in-keynote-speech</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>christophilus</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t think of a time when I&amp;#x27;ve been fooled by CGI (though, of course, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be aware of being fooled if I was, so it&amp;#x27;s a catch-22).&lt;p&gt;I &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; hate when movies throw in a CGI character expecting it to come off as real. It pulls you out of the movie in a way that normal over-the-top action CGI doesn&amp;#x27;t. I remember watching the recent Star Wars movies and being jerked out of the flow by CGI Princess Leah and some other characters (whoever the villainous old man was in that movie).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d be interested to see any videos of CGI faces that can fool experts.</text></item><item><author>ChuckNorris89</author><text>If you follow the &amp;#x27;VFX artists react&amp;#x27; series on YouTube you learn what give CGI humans away pretty easily. Getting CGI humans right is very difficult and few VFX houses, with decades of experience, get it right even with post processing, let alone doing it in real time.&lt;p&gt;CGI Jensen looks like he came out of a 2009 videogame. Nvidia may have the tech but you can tell it lacks the artistic supervision of a proper VFX house so the end result looks like something their engineers put together in a last minute crunch (which is probably what happened).</text></item><item><author>jstanley</author><text>I was going to comment something like &amp;quot;yeah, yeah, everyone&amp;#x27;s an expert, it&amp;#x27;s easy to say you can spot the CGI once you&amp;#x27;ve been told it&amp;#x27;s there&amp;quot;, but then I looked at the video and... wow, that really is a pretty weak showing!</text></item><item><author>nightcracker</author><text>The correct timestamp of the CGI is here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=eAn_oiZwUXA&amp;amp;t=3761s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=eAn_oiZwUXA&amp;amp;t=3761s&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;#x27;s only ~14 seconds of CGI.&lt;p&gt;And it&amp;#x27;s a pretty weak showing. The stiff animation and bad lip sync immediately gives it away to me. And the fact that the CGI Huang is shown ~15 times smaller than the real one is very damning.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s not clear exactly which part of the keynote speech features CGI Huang (which is what makes the replica so impressive), but if you jump to this part of the presentation you can see Huang magically disappear and his kitchen explode into multiple different 3D models.&lt;p&gt;So how much was Vice paid for this article?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Aeolos</author><text>I get your point, but &amp;quot;I can&amp;#x27;t think of a time when I&amp;#x27;ve been fooled by CGI&amp;quot; is a tautology: you remember = you weren&amp;#x27;t fooled. If you had been fooled, chances are you wouldn&amp;#x27;t remember.&lt;p&gt;There are videos from CGI artists, e.g. Corridor Crew, that break down really good CGI, which is almost entirely invisible to the non-expert eye. That is in fact the best kind of CGI: the one that enhances reality so seamlessly that it&amp;#x27;s almost impossible to pick apart. Quite entertaining and informative videos.</text></comment>