How is this new or original in any way!? This has been a feature in many kinds of games, for ages
that was my question, and they explicitly address it in the article
It is claimed that the AI model would be trained on existing footage of the game, instead of being a pre-recorded series of inputs set by a developer.
so uh I guess (1) they’re gonna spy on your gameplay now to train it, and (2) it might not be helpful at all
but the shareholders see this as an absolute win‽
And the next patent will be about a controller, not actually being plugged into the console, but merely giving gamers the illusion of affecting the gameplay…
Wait until they discover some remote controller, where you can switch the games that are played according to some schedule. Like some form of game stations. Maybe they could broadcast them for the whole population somehow, so that everybody can talk about the games they
playedwatched last week on their next town hall gathering or Sunday church with Aunt Lizzy.You’re on an entirely different plane of reality mate, my brain just can’t fathom a forward-thinking concept as such ;)
I also made my little brother player 2.
Remember when the way to beat hard bosses was to either git gud or input a built in cheat code? Pepperidge Farms remembers
MMO veterans might be very interested in this kind of totally never seen before type of play automation
Why would you single out MMO veterans in this scenario? I’ve been playing MMOs since 2001 AND I git gud. I am the older sibling/cousin that you hand your controller to when you don’t want to git gud to pass a boss.
Overall… I hate this idea that Sony has. If this becomes the norm I might never play a new game again 😭
Mmo players are the lowest form of humanity.
Singled them out because they’re the most used to seeing “autoplayers”, aka bots
Why would you single out MMO veterans in this scenario?
Not op, but I took it as being because MMOs are the only modern games where anyone really cares if the player cheats. So MMOs tend not to leave developer cheat codes lying around.
MMOs are the only modern games where anyone really cares if the player cheats
…what?
Ahh that makes sense, I totally misunderstood it. My bad. Also there are auto playing programs that exist lol. People use programs to create bots that farm gear, materials, and currency. EverQuest has one called MacroQuest that has the ability to do literally everything for you 😹
Remember when the way to beat hard bosses was to either
git gudhand the controller to an older sibling/cousin/friend or input a built in cheat code?
There is a small bit of intrigue here, imagine you get to a boss and think, ‘this is impossible’ but there is an ability to observe a ghost of your character taking the boss on in your gear.
Bare in mind as well that ‘AI’ has existed as a word in gaming for decades and has nothing to do with LLMs, surely this is achieveable purely with the gaming definition of ‘AI’ simply coding the PC also as an NPC that reacts to things.
Yeah, it really annoyed me that the author of this piece doesn’t understand the distinction between AI as a concept (always around in computing) and AI as in LLMs and the other stuff.
Also the Blaster Master and the Game Glitches Legacy Sequel anti-AI two part episode. Which is also extra ironic because in the end they glitch the Spider Man games on the PS5.
Sony is a true pioneer at inventing new reasons to not buy their shit.
I miss Sega.
Is this the end of people getting famous by playing video games on Twitch?
Look, that ledge has yellow paint. I bet I can climb it.
This feels like it’s going to incentivise developers to either make bad puzzles, or bad hint systems. Why bother with a good one if the platform has a “complete this for me” feature? It is basically impossible for players to get stuck or struggle, when they’re either shown the solution, or the game completes it for them.
If its an opt in feature that helps you when you are stuck it could be nice. Knowing Sony tho they’ll make sure it sucks and gets shoved down your throat
Sometimes I like to play a game on max difficulty, sometimes I choose easy chill mode so I’m all for games having a wide difficulty scale of options.
This just seems stupid, and more like they can’t be arsed to balance a bunch of difficulties so just slap some AI slop in there and call it done.
I don’t know if you can describe it as “can’t be arsed” when their proposed solution is so much harder to implement.
Opening an rdp connection to some dude in India so he can do it for you isn’t that hard.
Like some other AIs ended up being.
Is it? What’s so fucking hard about it?
I’m sure game journalists will still manage to get stuck on the tutorial XD
Lol we’re back to kids playing on arcade games with no coins in it thinking they’re playing super well
Younger siblings playing Mario on the second controller in one-player mode.
But then you have to unplug it for duck hunt.
Every game is an idle game now… ?
Sure, why not.
Player counts is all Wall Street is looking for.
I’m just gonna end up being an old man in my basement, staying warm with the radiant glow from my CRT monitor while playing SNES, Genesis and NES games.
I’m already there. It’s peaceful.
-inserts Aladdin geneses cart- “Then the fire nation attacked.”
