DLSS 5 turns 1991's Sonic the Hedgehog into a neural network…

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA graphics technique called DLSS five has taken the 1991 Sonic the Hedgehog game and run it through a neural network. The result is strange.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorJoining us is Lyle Abernathy-Smith, inmate forty thousand seven hundred eighteen.

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   Lyle Abernathy-SmithGood morning, Hank. Thanks for having me. I'm calling from the rec room, and I'll say up front the cartridge I'm holding is a loaner.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA loaner from whom?

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   Lyle Abernathy-SmithThe warden's nephew. Look, upscaling is simple. The machine looks at old pixels and guesses what should have been there. It's restoration.

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   Lyle Abernathy-SmithI did restoration for years.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the machine invents detail that was never in the original game. Is that restoration?

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   Lyle Abernathy-SmithIt's preservation with confidence. I never sold a fake. I sold, let's say, an enhanced edition. Four hundred of them. Actually, six hundred.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSix hundred.

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    Lyle Abernathy-SmithOut of a garage in Scranton, with a very good label printer. Different story. Back to Sonic.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLet me ask you this. Is a neural network guessing at a thirty-three-year-old hedgehog something we should trust?

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    Lyle Abernathy-SmithIt guessed my sentencing too, Hank. Eighteen months. The judge called it a prediction. I called it a rough draft.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd the hedgehog?

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    Lyle Abernathy-SmithThe hedgehog looks great. Slightly damp, a little melted. But I'd put my name on it. Which, in my case, has been a problem.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLyle, thank you. I'm giving Sonic the ten a.m. slot, the sauna gets eleven, and I'm still double-booked with my couch.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRex, who's the mascot this week?