• GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Not for nothing, but couldn’t this be used to have AI play a game for 80,000 simulated hours and flag all the bugs? Human playtesters are important and have value, but no human should have to do the work of criss-crossing an enormous game map thousands of times just to see if the character model gets stuck on a random vertex sticking out somewhere, and yet it seems to be a distressingly common occurrence in more than a few games I’ve played.

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      2 months ago

      Nvidia is doing a lot of that. It’s slightly better than nothing. It also quite expensive unless you’re Nvidia.

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      2 months ago

      Croteam did something like that for “Talos principle”. You can read here (points 9 and 10 in the article).

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    2 months ago

    Yeah, on the networked virtual machine you will be playing it on because no one can afford the hardware to run games anymore.

  • HeiligerBimBam@lemmy.wtf
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    2 months ago

    Environmental destroyers, future generations will condemn this irresponsible behavior and hopefully punish it.

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    2 months ago

    What’s going to be their next trick? Launching a service that’ll watch the latest Netflix series for me and give me a summary when it’s done?

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      2 months ago

      Obviously, how else will you keep slaving away for shareholders AND consume media to keep that creatively bankrupt corpse afloat as well?

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        Sucks teeth. I suppose that would be a rather tall order without tool assistance. On a completely unrelated note, I just had the oddest flash of somebody having welded a golden(ish) bull to the front of a surplus APC ramming the resultant amalgamation into the nearest stock exchange and / or AI data center. No idea why.

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      I don’t need a summary. Just have it tell me whether I liked it or not.

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    Maybe they can enhance it to play the whole game instead of just the end.

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        Hey I’m grump!

        I’m not so gruuuump!

        And we’re the artifically intelligent poor mans recreation of the game grumps!

        Hey Dan.

        Yes Arin?

        I am the boy of video games. I am made of win! Check out my 12 fingers!

        Wow Arin! That’s cool! I have 45 lbs of afro!

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    2 months ago

    Ah, the world we all hoped for with AI:

    AI doing all the fun stuff like art and games and humans get to do the hard work like fixing AI mistakes, fighting wars, and working until we die

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    What’s the point then? I pay for a game that I’m not even playing just so, what, my numbers of “completed” games goes up?

    I’m someone who likes seeing the stats go up as I watch anime. But I do it naturally and over time. This AI idea is like if I were to start an anime, put it on auto-play while I sleep, and when I wake up it’ll be done, without me seeing a single scene.

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      Legitimately nothing. I think this is MS looking for use cases, because they have sunk all their capacity into AI. They cannot detangle themselves from their AI, and they’re trying to course correct into SOMETHING that might be profitable and pull them out of their death spiral.

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    I am afraid that it actually can sell… botting already is happening in a lot of games to farm ressources and sell them for RL moneys. Right now this goes against most games ToS, but if this is a ‘legal’ way of doing things with less risk, it could be viable for some people…

    Not that I condone any of this, but ressource markets in games will be heavily cornered then.

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    this could be a way to help people complete difficult parts, but there exists another solution to this problem

    asking game developers to add assist modes

    it is much easier to do, much cheaper, better integrated into the game, basically impossible to fail, works on all platforms, does not need internet access, is not resource intensive, but it does not use AI so its bad