Gaming

because "easier" and "cheaper" ... to rip someone elses work on the internet off with ...

FUCK

AI

Hopefully this is great news for those of us waiting a decade for State of Decay 3. Pleeeeeaaaaaseeeeeee

Halo infinite 2 featuring real ai cortana

how would that even work?

Dollar dollar bill yo!

ITT: people who don’t understand how AI is applied

Microsoft strategy 2023 ... Our ecosystem sucks it's so full of different tech, standards and UI it's a nightmare to navigate.. let's give up as humans and put all investment into AI hoping it will a) help navigate the existing mess, 2) create new stuff

Why stop there? Can’t they get AI to build a better version of Teams?

#BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHA...

Fuck me.

Give up already.

Of course AI will become part of the production cycle but it's still just a tool.

Without the leadership and ability to deliver first without AI, I seriously doubt MS products are going to improve.

On one hand, the concept that you could bring in a bunch of awesome voice actors, have them record a few hours of lines, and then from there an AI can freestyle with the voice and do whatever lines come up in the game, that sounds like an amazing concept in gaming. The idea that you could say, blow up a building in GTA and the AI would react in a way more than the random screaming voice lines, but might actually say "Oh my god he's blowing up the Jeep dealership!" That sounds amazing. On the other hand I do worry that it would be used for purposes of cheapening down stories, characters and the artistic parts of gaming. I don't want to live in a world where the execs are microsoft studios just type in "Chatgpt, write me a plot for my fantasy game" and then do whatever it says.

The barista at your local Starbucks has an awesome idea for a game and they can now use Copilot and AI to go create a great mobile experience.

This is the main hope for AI that we see. The barrier of entry getting lowered to the point of cool ideas, story twists, etc are all that is needed to gain recognition.

All of those passion project MMOs that have 12 people working for a year will get a huge boost.

Obviously this was going to be a trend

Good. They've been doing it for years already. It's machine learning. Having advanced AI do the tedious work for game development means game devs have more time to do other stuff and add more. It's a tool to make things easier. It can't do everything. It makes the process easier.

There's ethical debates to be had though. Like what is it using to learn from. Like...they probably shouldn't be using any generated textures or images or whatever in the final product. but keep in mind, game development includes concept art and and story boarding and stuff. It's all a huge process and there's a ton of work we never see. So having AI do a ton of that work will make game development not only easier, but faster.

like right now, I can use AI image generation to make hundreds of placeholder background images for a digital painting. It'll help to get a feel for what you want, the colors, the lighting etc. Then you can go in make your own background. So imagine a game dev team working on a shooter. They can get AI to generate some quit code to test something out as a place holder. They see how it works with other systems...like, maybe a quick item pick up system that might take an hour or so to code in. now it takes a second. There's room in this world for this tech. The AI hysteria should calm down...for now...there's no limit to how both evil and stupid companies are...

It doesn't matter what they do, their games will still suck ass.