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Re:Nvidia Vid2vid: High-resolution photorealistic video-to-v... by iforgotpassword on Saturday September 22, 2018 @04:53AM (#18045153)
On average I agree they are on par. Sometimes OSS is better (ffmpeg), sometimes commercial stuff (adobe after effects).

In this specific case I think it might be beneficial if you can spend a lot of money on gathering training material and tweaking the network. But then again someone here mentioned the quality 4chans fake porn has reached, so maybe I'm wrong after all.

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Re:Nvidia Vid2vid: High-resolution photorealistic video-to-v... by jjeaff on Saturday September 22, 2018 @05:35AM (#18045271)
This might actually be one of those edge cases where commercial is better, but the government's secret version is by far the best.
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Re:Nvidia Vid2vid: High-resolution photorealistic video-to-v... by albertgoeswoof on Saturday September 22, 2018 @06:14AM (#18045358)
Like what though? Historically what tech does did governments have that was unknown to commercial domains?

People are motivated by money, governments pay little and there’s no way to get rich working there so it doesn’t make that much sense.

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Re:Nvidia Vid2vid: High-resolution photorealistic video-to-v... by Retric on Saturday September 22, 2018 @06:23AM (#18045383)
Around WWII Computers, Radar, Nuclear power, crypto, jet aircraft, rockets.

Around 1960 space flight, supersonic flight.

More recently hypersonic flight, and we don’t really know becase people back in WWII had no idea.

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Re:Nvidia Vid2vid: High-resolution photorealistic video-to-v... by deytempo on Saturday September 22, 2018 @07:26AM (#18045561)
True but now all that stuff is pretty much produced in the private sector by government contracts with these big companies. DARPA doesn’t have better scientists than MIT and there are a lot of extremely intelligent scientists who have moral issues about working for the military.
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