NVidia had their big GPU Technology Conference this week in San Jose.  As the third largest company in the world (by market capitalization value) NVidia’s profile has risen dramatically over the last couple years, primarily due to their position in the datacenter and AI processing world.  As such, their flagship conference becomes less “graphics” related every year, as their products push more into those other spaces.  This year had very few media and entertainment focused sessions, and even those where usually very AI centric.  Generative AI is where graphics and AI meet, and some amazing work is being done in that area, but I would still classify much of that as “art” as opposed to “storytelling” as the tools have not matured that far yet, to give the user enough control over the process to tightly steer the end result.  My friend just won an AI film festival, but optimizing for the tools available was still steering their workflow more than their story was.
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