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Is there a turing test for visual reality? This would seem to indicate that in at least some instances that reality is indistinguishable from CG.
by kfprt 5y ago
Is there a turing test for visual reality? This would seem to indicate that in at least some instances that reality is indistinguishable from CG.
- ben_w 5y agoI doubt any formal attempt to define such a test exists, given attempts at ultra-realistic painting as an art style predates Turing, let alone computer graphics: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ivan_Shishkin_-_Рожь_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg#mw-jump-to-license https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ivan_Shishkin_-_Рожь...
- themodelplumber 5y agoThat sounds like it could be interesting. It's funny how much of our "reality" / perceived universe is simply imagined or taken for granted even without any CG involved. Even in simple text, I can relate to you my relief at finding a news article on HN which was posted by my stealth marketing team on behalf of Nvidia today, or I can describe the tiny white kitten curled up on my chest as I type this from the couch I found on the street. In a way, that expression will create an effect similar to the Nvidia CG project for a lot of people. Meanwhile, I have no tiny white kitten, I'm not laying on a couch, and I don't work on a stealth marketing team. But some will go as far as visualizing what I must look like, or waxing sentimental about kittens. Some others would even doubt the retraction of those statements, merely because of a constant inner perceptive mandate which causes them to work extra hard at never getting caught closing off possibilities.
- contravariant 5y agoI mean it's not as if the Turing test is immensely complicated. For VR you can just make people compare a rendering with the view of a real camera and see if people can tell the difference.