The interviewer in the article had the same reaction I had to this sentence : today, gen AI is very close to be the “cool thing five years ago”. Rejecting it is not rejecting the new thing anymore.
We’ve already seen how it does, we’ve been suffering its consequences, and we hate it.
I’m way before gen Z by the way. If you can’t get young people on your side, maybe you’re not the visionary you want to be, Sam.
Please do. It sounds like the perfect plan for reddit to finally sink to complete irrelevance.
“We can’t have two billion-dollar projects running at the same time! The only solution is to choose one and fire everyone working on the other!”
Well, that’s one way to manage a company, apparently.
The problem is that you start thinking the robot tentacles are a neat tool and that you’re a centaur.
But before long the tentacles take over and you haven’t even realized you’ve become a reverse centaur.
Source : the ancient wisdom of Spider-Man 2 (2004).
I don’t know, Jewish tradition has golems. They’re basically human-shaped machines that are powered by the words written by their creators.
Though golems are supposed to be mute, and LLM are anything but. Maybe that’s why AI is bad.
I’m sure we can find something written millennia ago that describes precisely why we shouldn’t use gen AI now, we just have to look for it.
So you can’t oppose outsourcing your brain power to a megacorp that will take zero responsibility for any consequence of its spicy autocorrect…
but you can oppose outsourcing your brain power to “the machine” because it’s against your beliefs.
I mean, if it works, yeah sure, call it a religion.
A way less extreme fee was once proposed for steam greenlight, the process that was once supposed to filter new games released on Steam.
Principle was the game studio would present their game (in various states of completion) with a video, a couple screenshots and a blurb, maybe a demo (rare) and Steam users would check their page and vote on them if they wanted it on Steam.
For lots of reasons, it didn’t work. Like now, one problem was that no barrier to entry meant anyone could half-ass a page for their asset-flip or even other people’s work, eclipsing real games that had a hard time being approved (even a few that had a reasonable following outside Steam already).
At some point Steam tried going the fee-to-entry route, even making it a payment to charity so they were not accused of making money from the situation. It was way less than 150k, and it was already seen as rather unfair. Especially for people living in countries where the average wage was lower than in the US.
Greenlight finally imploded because it made nobody happy, and we ended up with the current situation of “anything goes, and the algorithm will recognize real games over the crap”. It’s always been a shit show, and it only became worse with genAI slop.
Regarding the fee you proposed, something that high would make it basically impossible for an indie to get in there without a publisher deal, and even then would make their relationship to said publishers even more one-way, if by chance they get one to absorb the risk. Have you read about small studios being conned out of their work by their publishers? Prepare for more.
They’ve “cracked the code” and need other cynical assholes like them to praise their genius. And possibly buy their training course.
Seriously. The guy’s not even trying to make slop entertainment, he’s gloating because he made an empty slop teaser. Just a shitty mascot that fakes a story beginning and never delivers. Because it’s enough to reap some monetisation.
Wouldn’t be surprised if he was partly faking how well it works too. That’s like 99% of that slop content entrepreneurship.
I’ve never really cared about the foldable fad, so I was not aware that they apparently have terrible durability.
Well okay, I’m sold, please let me spend a freaking fortune for one of those.
I have Ridiculous Fishing on Android as an APK from a very old humble bundle.
Some time ago I still managed to install it, though Android complained a lot because it was not supposed to be compatible (made for a way older version). Only minimal issues with unused screen space.
Just tried again, but now newer Androids just block old apps completely. For “safety reasons”. Shit.
In the end LLM are just predicting what is statistically the most likely follow-up for a sentence, according to what they’ve been trained on. That’s how they work.
For this they cut sentences into bits called tokens. The text they are working on is a sequence of tokens, and they predict the next one.
A token could be a whole word (generally if it’s short and usual), often it’s a syllable, and if you’re trying to use uncommon words/names they might even cut them down letter-by-letter in part to try and fit them into something they can swallow.
Of course tokens would be very language dependent, and some languages just use more characters/longer words and sentences than others on average.
Him complaining is all the proof we need that even he doesn’t believe in his “fight”.
Because he wants to be able to reap money from the ocean of slop games but he doesn’t want his store to be the only one trying to hide the sloppiness of it.
Hey asshole, you’ve got your own store, and you can do whatever you want with it. But no, you can’t expect to drag your competition with you at rock bottom because you think being better than you is unfair.
What would be the beginning in your reference frame? because they also presented something 10 years after the first game that wasn’t fortnite but was still already nothing like a continuation of the first game.
Planet-sized procedural open-world that’s mainly oriented for multiplayer, and chronologically a prequel with new characters, despite the fact BG&E ended with a huge mess left to be resolved. With a weird community artist plan for people who wanted to contribute art for the game.
If I am not mistaken the only “promise” we got before that was a “leaked” cinematic with BG&E characters that they provided zero comment for.
And then the second Mario+Rabbids is another designed-by-committee, unfocused game that adds grinding and busywork to a game that never needed them.
They just have to make all their games converge toward the same mediocre model.
Yeah, that was my first reaction to this too. Look at me, I found a way to monetize acting like a little shit to random people who just assume you’re a normal human being.
You know the type. They’re the asses who believe any basic interaction is a game they have to exploit for their own gratification. The ones that once heard the term “social contract”, and their reaction to this is finding all the loopholes in the agreement.
“Holy terrible parental figure, Batman!”
The reasoning behind it was the Wii was called like that because it was a console for everyone, as in “we”. Cue the weird ads with the two middle-aged Japanese men coming to random families with a wii in a suitcase asking “We would like to play!”.
By Wii U time the market had changed a lot. They knew they wouldn’t be able to count on casual gaming alone anymore (mobile apps had absorbed most of it) so they needed to recapture more traditional gamers too. So they added U, as in, “this console is not just the party console, it’s for you, too!”
Yeah, it didn’t work. It was confusing, didn’t really roll off the tongue, and wasn’t different enough from the original wii’s name to get people to notice it. Wii was a one-time trick, it worked because nothing looked or was named like that. They might have had more luck giving the U a completely new coat of paint.
Then again maybe not. They pulled the trick again with the Switch, because new name, and because that name reflected the real clever shtick of it, being a hybrid console. Wii U’s gimmick was rather weak and hard to use well.
True, not a great launch catalog. I remember for the first few months it was still mostly playing DS games for me.
The only launch titles I had were Pilotwings Resort and Samurai Warriors Chronicles. Those are the only ones I was barely interested in.
Pilotwings was boring and the 3D effect was not implemented well at all. It relied way too much on outward 3D, which is a major cause of eye fuckery on the console. Most later games got this and used effects that pop out of the screen very sparingly, making most of the game world sink inward instead.
Samurai Warriors was, well, musou, and not balanced very well at the beginning. I didn’t get far.
I believe Meta’s founder and CEO himself uses the technical term “dumb fuck” to qualify these people.
Is it? I don’t disagree completely, but I still think it’s a big improvement from Oblivion. Both for environmental design (holy crap, the copy-pasting in Oblivion) and for game mechanics. Yes, they’re still very dumbed down, but at least they kinda work.
Sure, I’d prefer they kept designing games like they did for Morrowind (Daggerfall is a complete other beast). But hard to consider one game in 25 years is representing the base level of the franchise.