Fake Jensen Kitchen

[Frugivore8894]

 

 

Summary

Nvidia faked parts of the keynote that announced the 3000 series cards. Jensen Huang and the kitchen where digitally created. 

 

Quotes

Quote

Nothing is real and anything is possible – Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's iconic kitchen, where he presented three pandemic-era keynote addresses in 2020 and 2021 – was almost entirely fake, including Huang himself, during the company's GTC 2021 keynote earlier this year and nobody even noticed.

The virtual presentation was cooked up using something called Nvidia Omniverse, a multidisciplinary collaboration tool for creating 3D virtual workspaces. For an annual keynote address known for impressive technical displays, this one certainly delivered. 

 

My thoughts

This is really cool tech but it’s also a bit scary. And I also don’t know how no one noticed at all! 

 

Sources

https://www.techradar.com/amp/news/jensens-kitchen-is-a-lie-nvidia-reveals-gtc-2021-keynote-nearly-100-synthetic

[Frugivore8894]

Ps: Sorry if I screwed up and this is like a joke or not the full story. I am really tiered at the time of writing. 

[CommanderAlex]

This is really damn impressive.

 

Now I wonder who they can bring back from the dead...Frankenstein perhaps??? 

[Arika]

holy shit

[Heliian]

Amazing, who would have thought that the biggest paper launch of all time was all created digitally.  

 

It was most obviously not Jensen's actual kitchen from the get go and since I've never met the guy in person then I wouldn't be able to discern a "fake" one.

 

As my grandma used to say, "Believe none of what you see and only half of what you hear." 

[TempestCatto]

Fun fact, Linus isn't real anymore. He's been AI since 2019. A pet project of NVIDIA mostly. The more you know...

[poochyena]

well, it helps that the background was out of focus

[Vanderburg]

Going back and looking (It starts at 1:02:39), it actually doesn't look very good. The model looks okay, I guess, but the mouth and its movement looks hideous. I can see why they did it so zoomed out.

[WolframaticAlpha]

oh my f*cking god.

[WolframaticAlpha]

19 minutes ago, Vanderburg said:

Going back and looking (It starts at 1:02:39), it actually doesn't look very good. The model looks okay, I guess, but the mouth and its movement looks hideous. I can see why they did it so zoomed out.

No, Nvidia Didn't Fool Everyone With a Computer-Generated CEO (pcmag.com)

[Fasterthannothing]

What like what! Ok this might actually be the most mind blowing and scary thing I've ever read in my life. I'm literally sitting here stunned right now that no one caught on and everyone fell for it. We are seriously doomed when AI gets better.

 

Edit: It's fake gosh dang click bait Twitter rumor mill crap!

[Fasterthannothing]

1 minute ago, WolframaticAlpha said:

No, Nvidia Didn't Fool Everyone With a Computer-Generated CEO (pcmag.com)

Ok good I was actually really freaked out for a moment. I was like well this is when the robots come for us and literally nothing is to be trusted.

[PeachGr]

As I do projects in blender, I have seen many digitally created projects that you can't say if they are real or not, and Nvidia's AI is always present on those. Gj cg creator, toy fooled us all 

[Mark Kaine]

Lol, to be totally honest - i always thought the kitchen was completely fake (turns out it was just extremely bad taste…) but i never thought jensen was fake… (and i do not recall the "holodeck" scene really…)

 

And the second thing, if this was all fake, they would have *never* waited this long to reveal it, all momentum lost, makes no sense…

 

Conclusion: social media is stupid, it only gives liers a platform that they simply didnt have before twitter fb & co.

 

(note: a forum isnt "social media" it works completely different) 

[Vanderburg]

8 hours ago, WolframaticAlpha said:

No, Nvidia Didn't Fool Everyone With a Computer-Generated CEO (pcmag.com)

I'm not really sure why I'm quoted here, unless it's just to provide more information, because that was the same point I made. The CGI Jensen is from 1:02:29 for about 30 seconds and it's obvious, and looks like garbage.

[Amias]

It's really not that impressive when you think about it. It's a static background of simple materials. 

 

You could have just green screened him into a photo of a kitchen and got 99% of the same result.

 

He obviously has that kitchen, so rendering references are even easier.

 

[tikker]

Damn that's impressive.

[Quackers101]

How do we know if Nvidia is real anymore? And not that their AI department took over, flexing their powers by running Nvidia as a whole on AI alone.

[GreatnessRD]

Now that's pretty cool. I never believed it was his kitchen, but I did think he was in somebodies kitchen, lol.

[Quackers101]

14 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

Had GTX 1080Ti for 4 years

oof that card, never again. Lucky if one got one of those at the time.

[Master Disaster]

4 hours ago, RejZoR said:

Who cares lol? Whoever thought he's actually recording in his own kitchen was an idiot to begin with.

He was recording in his own kitchen, the CG part lasted less than 2 minutes and featured a full recreation of his home kitchen, everything before and after the CG part was really him doing it live in his real kitchen.

[StDragon]

52 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

Been using RTX 3080 since early December 2020... And if you think RTX 4000 will be any better, then good luck.

I suspect you might be correct . However I'm hoping some market saturation has already occurred along with crypto being kneecapped in newer RTX cards. We shall see.

[Bombastinator]

16 hours ago, Arika S said:

holy shit

Means video isn’t evidence anymore if enough money is involved

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, Master Disaster said:

He was recording in his own kitchen, the CG part lasted less than 2 minutes and featured a full recreation of his home kitchen, everything before and after the CG part was really him doing it live in his real kitchen.

So there is comparison footage.  Begs the question of how much can be recreated.   Other questions include how much did it cost and is there anyway to tell the created footage from the genuine footage?

[RejZoR]

2 hours ago, Quackers101 said:

oof that card, never again. Lucky if one got one of those at the time.

Why never again? It was amazing price to performance ratio and I bought it like 2 months after its launch back in 2016. It was launched in April, I got it in June of 2016 iirc. I don't even remember if there was any special issue getting one. I picked AORUS GTX 1080Ti and bought it. There was no nonsense like after RTX 3000 series launch that was dumpsterfire from start to current point and I basically got my RTX 3080 though sheer luck. Even at somewhat reasonable price given the situation...