Microsoft unveils AI-generated demo ‘inspired’ by Quake 2 that runs worse than Doom on a calculator, made me nauseous, and demanded untold dollars, energy, and research to make
Microsoft unveils AI-generated demo ‘inspired’ by Quake 2 that runs worse than Doom on a calculator, made me nauseous, and demanded untold dollars, energy, and research to make
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i dont think they aimed to have this as a super good game more like a test what they can do in the future
In my negligible opinion the fact, that AI created a working game, is a feat. And a scary one.
AI is the next “internet”-thing. It will progress super fast.
Please stop, Microsoft.
Nobody wants this now, nor will we want it in the future.
nobody wants AI. except companies. we really have to stop supporting this nonsense.
“and demanded untold dollars, energy, and research to make”
I think they’re missing the point of what this actually exists for
Imagine how awesome things could be if Microsoft and the like restrained their efforts with AI to all the awful boring garbage no human *wants* to do or literally cannot, instead of all the fun and fulfilling things like making art, literature, songs, games. stories, etc.
I thought this is just a prototype to show what is possible. Its not a commercial product. I think an AI able to do this at all is itself a feat.
I know the Anti-AI train is in full force currently, but people are really behaving like people from 90s when people were scared that computers will take people’s jobs.
I am not saying AI is end all be all of everything. AI has its issues, technical and ethical. But if people’s protest of new technology were successful we wouldn’t have the internet, smartphone etc.
there certainly thing to improve especially consistency and longterm memory but the potential of such technology are absurd compared to 3D engine games
infinite game that constantly generate itself, every building can be visited, world at 1:1 size, realistic physic, real-time modding capability…
as GenAI trick your brain to believe what you see exist while 3D engine run calculation in background – a nuke dropping in 3D engine would need to calculate everything impacted by the nuke while with GenAI it only need to show you something you could believe and save the end result
it obviously still need some years of developpment but it have an absurd potential
It will be so much fun in the future when somebody pours untold hours and money into a game and ai scrapes it the moment it releases to generate ai-copy-slop immediately after.
The luddite, has no idea what a proof of concept is.
It seems like the OP has absolutely no understanding of what the AI demo is, and either thinks Microsoft tried to create Quake 2 with AI and failed, or is intentionally misrepresenting it.
The comparison between the number of devs for Quake 2 and the number of authors on the paper, as well as comparing this tech demo to Stadia, makes this article unreadable.
If you still don’t get it, there’s no game engine, they’re simulating a semi-playable environment entirely through AI image gen, responding to player inputs.
I read a similar article a while ago.
From memory, the AI was not used to generate the game code but the AI is used to generate a frame for each input.
The goal is therefore not necessarily to be ultra playable but to show at what rate the AI can generate images
I had a better experience literally just imagining the game in my head.
Hentai mods included.
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put IA in NPCS in games like fallout
Disgusting in every way.
>runs worse than Doom on a calculator, made me nauseous, and demanded untold dollars
The future of gaming!
Be a normal company and listen to people: hell nah
Make things nobody asked for: hell yeah
As an academic exercise this is super interesting even in its current acid fever dream state.
However Microsoft’s boast that they want “to build a whole catalog of games that use this new AI model”, despite it not being clear if the current technique will ever even be capable of letting you turn around without moving to a random point on the map let alone come up with an original game, really typifies what’s wrong with AI and the tech industry.
Salty bitches at PCGAMER, it is not a game it is a AI model. This is the first step into the (scary) future.
Salty bitches at PCGAMER, it is not a game it is a AI model. This is the first step into the (scary) future.
When was dalle first introduced before we got the ghibli craze? Give it two years, we’ll get a fully open world game run on AI. The downside? It’ll be a subscription base.
*nauseated*
We are going to get to the point where AI makes the entire game and the publisher still charges £60 for ot.
Shit site, op.
AI Generated images, videos, and soon videogames?
I can tell you one thing. These AI generated content are completely stupid. They can use it as a proof of concept that can be refined further by only humans. But using it on itself will look terrible.
AI Generated images, videos, and soon videogames?
I can tell you one thing. These AI generated content are completely stupid. They can use it as a proof of concept that can be refined further by only humans. But using it on itself will look terrible.
Honestly feels like AI just unlocked the ability to time travel — straight back to 1997 but with worse optimization. But yeah, it’s probably just a tech demo to test limits, not something meant to impress gamers yet.
Just wait until the next version.
crime against humanity.
I can immediately tell by the title this was written by an ignorant idiot