this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2026
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The only good AI I've come across is the one I use for denoising cycles renders in Blender3D, as that's something that a human cannot reasonably do.
That's the only scenario something like AI has any use as a "tool"; doing things humans cannot reasonably do.
Good news. There's absolutely zero "intelligence" involved in computer functions doing math. No "AI" needed or detected as usual.
Yes, I know. It's just a neural net. Still a calculator, just with more steps than a human can sift through. And they call that intelligence.
Unexpected blender tip. Thanks for that, hope it improves my render times 😉
Here's another for you:
Play around with sample sizes and render tile sizes in the performance menu (same place where you find the denoising options).
Depending on your set-up, you can see a drastic improvement in render times by choosing smaller tile sizes. Sample size is also counted per render tile, so you could get away with very low sample sizes and have a completed render with an overall higher combined sample size.
Did not know that about the tile size. I never worried to much about performance as my previous laptop had plenty of grunt. But that blew up and now I'm on a 10 year old machine that was tired when it was new. I need everything I can get 😆