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Microsoft unveils AI-generated demo: runs worse than Doom on a calculator

What are the ethics of expending massive amounts of capital, energy, and man hours on not even a worse version of a game from 30 years ago, but a vague impression of it? These are the questions PCGamer's Ted Litchfield pondered after having gotten motion sickness playing a game for the second time in my life with Microsoft's Copilot AI research demo of Quake 2.

ZycoFox23d ago

"research" and "demo" key words.

Cellblock1123d ago

Actually whats key here is the AI part and rather it's ethical or not to be making games using it.

ZycoFox23d ago

Depends how you think about it, not everyone is going to be happy.

It's like AI art, I see there's already many pissed off about it.. what else can I say. I guess it's like marmite.

Deathdeliverer23d ago

Well I hope nobody wanted to go to school to learn programming games with hopes of working their way up. Microsoft is hell bent on destroying gaming.

Michiel198923d ago

AI has been used in gaming in many shapes and forms for like 10 years now, this is nothing new, won't be the first and won't be the last and the hardware in your pc/console also uses AI, it's literally already everywhere in gaming and you didn't even notice.

UltraYZU23d ago

Microsoft is showing you their plan is to create whole games with AI, replacing all the humans who create the games.

You can't write this off by saying "a GPU has AI" the GPU isn't replacing any humans.

Michiel198923d ago

Every company would be creating full AI games if they had the chance and could get away with it, or the company hates money.

You do realize if they test an AI to build a game, they can detect what parts of it, it does well and only implement the things it does well, just an example i came up with in 5 seconds. An army base doing a drill doesn't mean they're going to war and a company doing tests with AI doesn't mean they will switch full development to AI. Why does it always have to be on the extreme end....AI can be a very important tool for devs, if it gets developed and tested well.

The gpu was just an example, he implied AI was some sort of cancer yet he doesn't mind benefiting from it himself.

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FinalFantasyFanatic23d ago

That really does look like a bad rip-off of Quake, just because you could do something, doesn't mean you should. Plus, it that demo video looked stuttery to me.

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EA Cuts Around 300 Roles, Including Roughly 100 at Respawn

In addition to the roughly 100 job cuts IGN reported earlier today at Respawn Entertainment, EA has made wider cuts across its organization today, impacting around 300 individuals total including those already reported at Respawn.

Lightning7736m ago

Absolutely insane. Man I'm hope they land on their feet EA needs to get the shit together badly....

This is why this industry has slow releases and none compelling games.

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8BitDo no longer shipping to US from China due to Trump tariffs

Polygon writes: "U.S. customers can still order controllers, mice, and other peripherals that are already at the company’s U.S. warehouse. There doesn’t appear to be any way to tell what’s available at the U.S. warehouse on the website itself, but the checkout page — after inputting an address — will display what products in the cart can’t be shipped to the U.S."

OtterX18h ago

I have one of their adapters to use my PS5 controllers on my Switch, and I absolutely love it. I'm sure there are other brands that can do the same thing, but I had heard about 8Bitdo and wasn't disappointed. I also really dig the brick design of it.

z2g12h ago

Only gonna get worse from here folks. It was also reported that the US economy contracted for the first time in 6 years. - the last time was also when trump was in office. I guess that’s what happens when idiots choose belief over actual facts. Thx maga. You f**ked us all.

Snookies1211h ago

Lol, belief over actual facts... I don't usually get into political talks. Since you started it though... Trump was at least upfront about what he was doing for the most part. I don't necessarily think he's doing the best job. But I'd much rather have him in office. Over someone who should be in assisted living or their VP who had 20 different personas depending on her audience at the time.

And look at that, I was just talking about the candidates. Not resorting to calling people idiots because they didn't vote the way I chose.

xHeavYx9h ago

You think that Biden should be in an assisted living facility (which is true) but that Trump is completely sane? Or that someone with "20 different personas" (no idea why you get this idea) is better than a guy found guilty of sexual abuse? Nevermind all the stuff that he's doing that's illegal or his abuse of power? Hard not to think you are challenged if you really think that.

Forum_Pirate9h ago

'At least the dipshit evil fascist tangerine is honest about how all the stupid evil shit he's doing' is not the defense you think it is.
And 'I fucked over millions of people but you have to be polite to me' is the dumbest thing ive ever heard, believed exclusively by mouth breath oxygen thieves.

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Killa785h ago

The economy was great under Biden though, now we're in recession.

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Koei Tecmo Announces Strategy for the Next Three Years After Falling Short of Previous Targets

Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2024, on top of its new mid-term management plan and objectives.

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