The father of the god game weighs in on AI use in the gaming industry

So we are pretending. This is the truth, Rob. We as the industry are pretending we’re not using AI, but the reality is, it’s almost impossible to code now without using AI. Almost impossible. I mean, the efforts you have to go to extract AI from line completion stuff and from generative stuff is very challenging. So everyone, every title that’s come out in the last year has been using that, but we’re still able to not tick the AI box. AI is going to be, when it’s sorted out and not producing AI slop, it is the most… This is very controversial. It is the most, the biggest advance in creativity for smaller studios, for medium studios and bigger studios. The biggest step forward in creativity."

Uh huh. Sure there guy who keeps overhyping things and never releasing what was promised.

  • r00ty@kbin.life
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    9 days ago

    Well if they are using that method it’s only going to work as a refinement technique on existing or new traditional models. At the end of the day they can only tackle difficult tasks using knowledge they have vacuumed up by their (often from dubious sources) large datasets. This reinforcement training still won’t produce innovation. It will most likely just specialize the models, possibly to work better for specific tasks while requiring less memory or other resources. A good thing for sure, but it still doesn’t mirror innovation.

    Now, I’m going to be honest. On one hand, I realise if we got AGI the best case scenario is most of us would have ended up with no jobs, the rich would get richer until we’d have a violent, bloody revolution and have AI design us a more efficient guillotine (for any future legal trouble, it’s important to note this was a hypothetical based on us achieving AGI, we didn’t so you cannot legally constitute this as a threat, call to action or plan to commit a crime).

    Nonetheless I did kinda hope that with the huge investment the tech bros got for AI, that they would spend it going down the avenue of trying to achieve AGI, rather than just buying all the GPUs and making more expensive models where we’d already know there was a diminishing return before they did it! Yeah it might go full skynet on us, well apparently current models are perfectly capable of going skynet on us if we let them near our nukes. But, still this would have a chance to just bypass us and do it anyway. But if it didn’t, such issues of innovation might have been solved.

    As it is, they squandered the money and here we are now. Which I suppose is still a good thing, in a weird way.

    Anyway I’ve gone off path, but I’ll leave it all there. My main point is, what we have is ultimately a dead-end failing some great discovery. It should be used as a tool to assist skilled writers, artists, programmers and anyone else. Not to replace them, but to augment them. Oh and it wouldn’t go amiss to not take all the returns to the top, maybe the little guy could get a tiny tiny piece of the pie for a change.