Neural networks, cybercrime and 8K graphics in GTA 5

Grand theft auto 5 still remains an attractive playground for various scientists, developers and even cybercriminals! In today’s collection of news, we note three outstanding events that are associated with our favorite game.

In May we wrote about the amazing Intel technology that revived the graphics of the five… Today is amazing news again – GTA 5 was recreated using the Nvidia GAN neural network! The image quality is lame, but just think that the end result is the work of two components of the green company’s neural network. The first one is called a generator. It self-learns and expands its database, for example, from user photos. Based on the data received, fake content is generated that looks like real. The second component of the GAN is the discriminator. He is responsible for maintaining the “illusions” created by the generator.

Not only scientists, but also all kinds of scammers love to feast on the work of the guys from Rockstar Games. In the latest report from Avast, which develops software for protection against viruses and hacker attacks, has reported a new virus Crackonosh. The new malware is mining cryptocurrency on users’ computers. It is distributed through games like Grand Theft Auto 5, NBA 2K19, Far Cry 5, The Sims 4, and Jurassic World Evolution. According to Avast, users download infected images of games from torrents, install them, and then Cackonosh begins its illegal activities. The virus brought its creators $ 2,000,000 extracted from 220,000 infected computers. Therefore, we ask our readers to carefully look at the sources from which you download games, and if there are doubts about the purity of the image, then it is worth looking elsewhere.

Let’s conclude our news that once was not possible – GTA 5 was launched in 8K resolution. No, this is not a joke! Of course, it was not without a modern Nvidia RTX 3090 graphics card and modifications such as reshade, ENB, quantV and GTAV Real mod. Eight minutes of leisurely drive through Los Santos at different times of the day. The quality of the image is amazing in the details, but to be honest, such stunning graphics are unlikely to be in demand among the players. I believe that this video was created only to demonstrate the capabilities of modern computer hardware and the work of enthusiastic creators of the modification.