There's been a lot of discussion about AI and what it will be like and how it is over promoted. The reality is that it will likely be more than expected, but take longer than expected.
https://youtu.be/a2EgfkhC1eo?si=DlTsT2cOrxc95UZF
This is a commercial about the Internet from '93. It has all of the connections and ideas, but thinks there needs to be phone booths and learning areas for people to meet up. They can't imagine YouTube, and Zoom is weird.
We can say the same for all technologies. Imagine explaining trench warfare to Napoleon Bonaparte. How about D&D to Prussian generals. Napoleon knew how to aim cannons, and created a network of food and supplies for his troops. A Prussian king and his generals used wargaming to plan their battles and attacks. None of them could see the way those ideas changed things.
AI is moving fast, and many want a larger market for it. They promote the ideas that fit the ideas for people now. How can AI help a video creator? How can AI help write a paper? How will AI effect medical bureaucracy? These guys know their days are numbered, and will declare even the idea of using it as evil. Even if it helps, their world will be destroyed.
AI itself is not the big thing, it's how suddenly disparate tech can be used together. Have an idea, create videos, toys, games, and even experiences from your home. That is whole industries being turned into one guy at an office. That's what scares so many people.
Is it ready? Only if you know what you are doing. That means use AI and the actual task. I have a coworker who makes toys he's always wanted. Not just stuff invented, but ideas from when he was a kid.
This year I expect picture creation to finish, and videos with actual characters. It looks like full games will be made, both as some sort of pseudo video, or all the programming, level creation, and characters made from separate but interconnected programs. We've gone from 6 fingered weirdos to videos that can show the same guy chatting with someone else while eating spaghetti.
Have some links on the videogame subject.
AI: Videogames
Huanyuan is a dark sheep beating other competition with 3D creation and games
- https://archive.ph/DJqT3
- https://www.wired.com/story/tecent-3d-models-video-game-design-artificial-intelligence/
Game designer admits he uses Figma to design the game UI and AI programs it in as seen.
Flight simulator for the browser
Roblox goes game design with AI.
GDevelop is an AI game design program. No code, just commands.
Quake ported to 3JS by Claude
Level 5 explains how they use AI
- https://x.com/i/status/2003594997501931610
- https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/singi/titeki2/ai_kentoukai/gijisidai/dai4/siryou1.pdf
- https://decasimcentral.wordpress.com/2023/12/12/level-5-gives-examples-of-ai-use-in-their-projects-including-generation-of-character-concepts-and-quests-in-decapolice/
Similar subject with gaussian blurring as a basis
AI: VG: Genie 3
Mario Kart
A fish must escape the kitchen
Japanese village
Walking on a small planet in claymation
Pokemon
Blockbuster
Persona
Zelda
Halo
Mr Rogers Trolley Game
Christ on the Cross
GTA
Cigarette pack on a dirty floor
Flying around a photograph
Doom
From a painting
Fortnite
The Shire
Genie 3 is following the AI pattern of starting at crap
Investors are selling videogame company stock.
- https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/gaming-market-melts-down-after-google-reveals-new-ai-game-design-tool-project-genie-crashes-stocks-for-roblox-nintendo-cd-projekt-red-and-more
- https://archive.ph/jWksE
AI: VG: Lingbot
Lightbox is an open source rendition of Genie 3.
- https://x.com/i/status/2017911410513076340
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2017911410513076340.html
- https://archive.ph/T0oCd
A promotional video
AI: VG: Claude Game Engines
A Claude connection to Unreal Engine makes a whole building by prompt
Claude now connects to Unity, Unreal, and Blender
Claude made a game engine for the Neo Geo. It had to write code for a 90’s chip set in the proper format of the era.
Claude made a space ship shooter with three levels for fun.
Quake on 3JS via Claude.
AI: VG: Zelda Trailer
Seriously good Legend of Zelda trailer
An 80 second tutorial on how it was made.
AI:VG: 3D Worlds
Explore a World War I Trench
Gaussian blur star ship to explore
AI: VG: Graphical Upgrades
AI as a graphics rendering layer is the future. Shown by Witcher 3
A company that is making games based on AI with graphical updates as well
With AI upgrading at real time. The idea of graphical updates doesn't make sense. Nintendo suddenly has more than expected.
North Korea in GTA 5 looks real except the animations
This brings up why so many companies are buying others. Netflix forgot that Warner Bros makes games. They want the IP. In fact, the thing that is keeping these companies afloat is products they made years ago. Nintendo seems to have realized that and is expanding beyond videogames. Who knows how all of that will end up.
So, I think AI is doing great, people recognize what it is doing and what it will destroy. Also, only a few people know how to use it, which means lots of fluffery to save a company.
They don't care about normie backlash unless it translates into something tangible. But if they're already restricting access to hardware, what other fungible results could normies concoct?
I think they will focus on producing streaming services for gaming more aggressively just like TV/movies and herd normies that way. It's not like the normies can or will do anything about it. Most of them already consume a lot of sub-based slop, so if Netflix -- for instance -- opened up a streaming gaming service on top of their TV/movies, most normies would accept it if they cannot upgrade their PC any longer.