The upcoming Microsoft Flight Simulator game appears to take the already-incredible FS2020 and integrate basically everything that was on my wishlist to build this more into a real world Earth-based photogrammetry+procgen Elite Dangerous, with all the career/mission types you can think of, passengers, cargo, and the ability to get out and walk around outside your aircraft.
If they pull this off as described, I could drop huuundreds of hours into this game
As far as I can tell, the amount of energy required to generate one “AI image” [sic] is about equivalent to 20 seconds of gaming on a mid-range rig(*).
So huuundreds of hours dropped on this would equate to thousands of AI images.
Something for some in the #pioutocracy to consider.
(* Derived from https://www.volts.wtf/p/wrapping-our-heads-around-ai-and)
Alp Kucukelbir, co-author of a recent “Artificial Intelligence for Climate Change Mitigation Roadmap,” discusses the strengths and limits of AI in relation to climate, where it all might be headed, and how concerned we should be about the energy use of data centers.
Steve Troughton-Smith
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