Trug / Future Crew. Bitboys founder. Pyramid3D. Adreno. Siru Innovations. GPU Architect. Now at Intel
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Mika Tuomi retweeted
This was real a few decades ago. If you painted on computer screen (mouse or digital pen), you were not an artist. If you used a tracker to do music, you were not a real artist. Now everybody accepts iPad art and digital music. Same will happen with AI.
treylorswift.github.io/demos…
Treylor has ported two of our old Future Crew demos to work on browser. Absolutely fantastic work!
Mika Tuomi retweeted
Starship Flight 14 launch and orbit was a success, but what did the launch sound and feel like form Port Isabel, about 5 miles away?
Here is a visual & audio experience almost as good as being there! If you haven't been to a Starship launch, you really need to plan a trip! @esherifftv
Sound UP!
Mika Tuomi retweeted
I just ported Future Crew’s 1993 Second Reality from x86 assembly, C and Pascal to JavaScript using nothing but AI agents.
No emulation. It runs natively in your browser.
secondreality1993.com/
Mika Tuomi retweeted
33 years ago today, Future Crew's Second Reality won Assembly '93. I built speakers out of old hard drives and made them play it.
youtu.be/B1ybSPMPWo0
Mika Tuomi retweeted
I was 16, downloading this over a BBS on a 14.4 modem. I was already writing assembly, already knew VGA registers. Second Reality humbled me. I saw graphics that felt impossible. Reading the source code three decades later, showed how far ahead they really were. blog.innerlogics.com/second-…
(cc Trug @mtuomi, Skaven @skaven252)
Mika Tuomi retweeted
🐧 Linus Torvalds gets angry when people say 99% of our code is written by AI, he told the audience at the Open Source Summit.
Mika Tuomi retweeted
Jensen Huang just told every college student on Earth the one thing that determines whether they get hired.
It is not their GPA.
It is not their degree.
It is not their internship.
Huang: “If I have a choice between two, I would hire the one who’s expert in using AI.”
He did not say prefer. He said hire.
One gets the job. One does not. The only variable is whether you learned to use the machine.
Then he went down the list.
Accountant. Hire the one who uses AI.
Lawyer. Hire the one who uses AI.
Marketing. Supply chain. Sales. Customer service.
Every function. Same answer.
The person who can command the model does not have an edge. They are the only candidate in the room.
Everyone else is applying for a job that no longer exists.
Huang: “If you’re a carpenter, if you’re an electrician, go use AI. If I were a farmer, I would absolutely use AI.”
That line should demolish every assumption about who this technology is for.
This is not a Silicon Valley tool for software engineers.
This is infrastructure for anyone who builds anything with their hands or their head.
A farmer who uses AI to optimize soil, predict weather, and manage yields is not competing with other farmers.
They are operating at a level that used to take an entire department.
An electrician who uses AI to model loads, simulate wiring, and quote jobs in seconds does not compete with other electricians.
They compete with firms.
One person with the model replaces the output of a team without it.
That is not a prediction. That is Tuesday.
Huang: “Every college student should graduate and be an expert in AI.”
Not familiar with it. Not aware of it. Expert.
The university system is still training students to execute the work.
The market already moved. It wants the person who directs the machine that executes it.
Four years of tuition. Thousands of hours of lectures.
And if you walk out the door without mastering the one tool that redefines every industry you could enter, you burned all of it.
Huang: “I want to see what it could do to elevate my job, so that I could be the innovator to revolutionize this industry myself.”
That is the part most people miss.
AI does not replace ambition. It multiplies it.
The carpenter who learns the model does not lose their craft. They scale it.
The pharmacist who learns the model does not become redundant. They become dangerous.
One person. Deep skill. Full command of the machine. That used to be called a company.
The question is no longer what do you know.
It is what can you build with the machine that knows everything.
And the people who cannot answer that are not falling behind.
They already fell.
Mika Tuomi retweeted
Agency > Intelligence
I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?
Grok explanation is ~close:
“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.
People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.
It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”
Mika Tuomi retweeted
The Finnish National Broadcaster YLE has produced an incredible documentary of how the Finnish game industry came to be called "Raha-Suomi: Nörttien kosto" that can be watched here: areena.yle.fi/1-64877957 I'm honored to be part of this together with @ipaananen @Game_Brewery @pvesterbacka and many others Finnish game industry luminaries.
Mika Tuomi retweeted
Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines
abs: arxiv.org/abs/2408.14837
project page: gamengen.github.io/
Google presents GameNGen, the first game engine powered entirely by a neural model that enables real-time interaction with a complex environment over long trajectories at high quality. GameNGen can interactively simulate the classic game DOOM at over 20 frames per second on a single TPU. Next frame prediction achieves a PSNR of 29.4, comparable to lossy JPEG compression. Human raters are only slightly better than random chance at distinguishing short clips of the game from clips of the simulation. GameNGen is trained in two phases: (1) an RL-agent learns to play the game and the training sessions are recorded, and (2) a diffusion model is trained to produce the next frame, conditioned on the sequence of past frames and actions.
Mika Tuomi retweeted
ok so - the human eye can absolutely tell the difference in framerates beyond 60 Hz
can we please stop the "the eye can only see in 60 fps" nonsense now
Mika Tuomi retweeted
Is this AGI?
What you are seeing in this photo:
1. Vision on input image
2. Generated new image based on input
3. Vision on generated image to create report data
4. Save report data as CSV file for download.
Possible now with GPT-4's latest update.
ALT GPT-4 Update multi-modal
Mika Tuomi retweeted
The Best Darn Grid Shader (Yet)
medium.com/@bgolus/the-best-…