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Soundwave on 04 March 2024
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haxxiy said:

People have been predicting automation doom since the 19th century and involving large language models specifically for decades. Yet we're seeing time and time again that 90% of people laid off from Midjourney or ChatGPT or whatever end up rehired because clueless CEOs had no idea what 'generative AI' actually is - neither intelligent nor artificial, for that matter.

(Not to mention the huge server/maintenance costs of these LLMs, most of which operate on a loss.)

Actually useful machine learning models might aid with development costs in the future but all that generative stuff... likely isn't it. Too much data entropy, possible legal challenges, and the limitations of human-reinforced learning are increasingly evident.

It's also taking it's baby steps now, AI is now where probably where the internet was maybe in 1993. 

I remember seeing my neighbor using it and scrolling through BBS forums and he was explaining the concept of "email" to me which I thought sounded like bonkers talk (electronic ... mail?). 

As things relate to the game industry though you're correct I don't think AI is sufficiently "intelligent" enough to handle huge tasks that would significantly reduce the budget explosion you see in the industry right now and won't be able to affect that time that's relevant to the immediate industry. 

But it could definitely be coming. I simply will not support that though. I have no interest in cheerleading destroying the lives of thousands of people who frankly are underpaid even today. For what? So I have prettier graphics? Gimme a fucking break. 

I don't even think the general gaming market is nearly as obsessed with graphics as a small minority of very loud people on the internet are. If they were the top 5 selling games every year, should be the ones with the best graphics, that's virtually never the case. GTAV is a PS3 game with lip gloss put on it, Minecraft looks like a PSOne era game on purpose, Mario Kart 8 is a Wii U game, those are the best selling games right now. 

Shawn Layden was head of Playstation until quite recently, he's even cited as one of the biggest architects of the whole concept of big budget "cinematic" games ... and even he is now saying this is not sustainable, lol. How much bigger of an authority than that can you get. You have internal memos from Insomniac's higher ups even questioning why they spent so much more money for an improvement they think many gamers won't really even appreciate.