My opinion on AI are still the same mixed bag I’ve always had: it can do so many cool things, it’s really helpful and should definitely be the future (this is, speaking purely as the technological advances). But at the same time, the ownership of the working value will make (and has made, as far as I’ve seen in many different fields) a lot of workers obsolete, or at the very least, redundant.
I never thought I could ask it to program a game for me hahah, I might give it a go since I have a few ideas and subjects that I’d like to explore in an interactive medium. Which specific AI did you use for it?
My opinion really hasn’t changed–I’ve always said this technology itself isn’t good or bad; it’s how it is used. I find it to be impressive and scary at the same time, especially with how quickly it has improved compared to where we were just a year ago. I saw the recent demo for GPT 4o and my jaw dropped, it was incredible. I’ve personally been using ChatGPT to practice Japanese, analyze/summarize PDFs for work, bouncing ideas for songs/lyrics and such, among other things.
The reasons for the pessimism surrounding it are totally valid and have only compounded in the last year. First is that there is absolutely no protection for workers who stand to lose their jobs because of this technology. I have some friends that work in customer support who can clearly see that they are presently training AI models with their work for the ultimate goal of eliminating their jobs and saving money for the company. I’m not arguing against progress, but the idealistic future where AI makes work obsolete and lets us sit around and lounge all day is a total fantasy. Without regulation, it will be used as a tool for corporations to hoard even more wealth and reduce opportunities for people to earn a living. If that is allowed to happen, we will continue to inch towards a terrifying dystopian future.
Second, and just as urgent is how AI models are being used as a plagiarism machine to totally skirt around people’s IP rights, whether it be art, music or video. In order for these models to work, they require training material, and in many cases it’s obvious that people’s creative works are being used for that purpose without their consent. The normal retort to this is that “human artists also are inspired by other peoples’ art,” which is total BS. AI models are not humans, they don’t learn like humans and they sure as hell can’t create art like humans. They take a dataset of existing creative works, and synthesize a generic variation of that dataset based on the provided prompt. It can’t create anything that it hasn’t seen before.
In an imaginary world where I can train a model on my own music/art and get it to be good at generating my own style, or if a model can be trained ethically only using art from people that are being compensated for its use in the model, then I can perhaps get behind this. But this is not at all what is happening right now, and I think we’re risking entering a scary future where it is impossible to earn a living from creating art entirely, because anyone who wants can just pay a tech startup to synthesize something that fits their needs.
bing mostly since its convenient to just open the browser (or if you have newer windows its on the desktop) Which service is best for what is always evolving. Fotor is really cool for doing stuff with photos/art. I also make videos using ai.invideo.io and sometimes I’ll mess around with Runway ML
On the jobs/automation problem. Industry would seek automation or cutting the costs of their operations with or without AI. The rapid advancement of AI is nevertheless will be a strain to solving this challenge. There are problems with the concept of a UBI as well, in the sense that industry still gets the whole pie, by giving money to people to spend on said industry. While the near future might seem frightening, if anyone can unwind and clean up the mess we’ve been making at some point it’s surely AI.
I’ve personally been using ChatGPT to practice Japanese, analyze/summarize PDFs for work, bouncing ideas for songs/lyrics and such, among other things.
OK, that’s cool I haven’t thought to explore translation with it, as I’m used to using the google translate service using my phone. I’ve always looked forward to the day I can play a lot of old Japanese games that were never translated and it seems like that’s something that will happen at some point. (I noticed that RetroArch already has had an AI translation service in it for a while but I haven’t explored that either)
A really good movie I saw recently is The Creator. It delves into even more deeper concerns with both the philosophy and politics of technology.
Been working on my game more and going to try and integrate as many retro action game mechanics as i can. I’ll probably get bored at some point (the more things i implement the more things I seem to potentially have to change, that’s the life of a programmer i guess)
The worse thing about AI. Are all those instagram accounts with that crappy AI voice about “you are part of the 1 percent blah blah” and then say send you magical package to become rich somehow.
On the jobs/automation problem. Industry would seek automation or cutting the costs of their operations with or without AI. The rapid advancement of AI is nevertheless will be a strain to solving this challenge. There are problems with the concept of a UBI as well, in the sense that industry still gets the whole pie, by giving money to people to spend on said industry. While the near future might seem frightening, if anyone can unwind and clean up the mess we’ve been making at some point it’s surely AI.
Yes, companies will always seek to cut costs, hence why I don’t think AI itself is the problem. UBI is a bandaid solution, because in the end the industry still gets the money and the incentives to hoard more wealth don’t go away. I think AI can be part of the solution, but what we really need is politicians to react to the ethical concerns surrounding the technology.
OK, that’s cool I haven’t thought to explore translation with it, as I’m used to using the google translate service using my phone. I’ve always looked forward to the day I can play a lot of old Japanese games that were never translated and it seems like that’s something that will happen at some point. (I noticed that RetroArch already has had an AI translation service in it for a while but I haven’t explored that either)
It’s very good at translation. I mostly just ask it to quiz me and find the issues in my sentences or evaluate my own translations rather than to straight on translate a game for me. I haven’t used that option in RetroArch, but it seems like a great accessibility tool.
My opinion is a bit different: I think the responses will come from the public sector, which is not the one who owns/develops AI. The change is becoming faster, but the responses are still on the same speed, as they rely on a lot of bureaucracy (justifiably so).
I mean it alredy starts of with slapstick in the first seconds of the video when the guy jumps down from the rope(?) from a helicopter(?) and swings his feet upwards like he is on a swing instead of down to the ground, would have landed on his ass instead of his feet. Pure comedy. Made me wonder if shooters / trailers of shooters often have “leg and feet showing” that AI thought this was what it had to put in?
The sound/voice acting is also amazingly wrong in so many ways that it is hard to make a list.
Nothing to worry yourself about. It’s still early days and there will be time needed to smooth this out. But it will be smoothed out and then things will improve dramatically. It’s only going to get better. Looking forward to better bigger games released more often.
When you can’t decide if that’s written by an AI bot or by an “AI-bro” with brainrot. I am sure after AI creates all the good games it also cures cancer, resolves world hunger and makes us all happy!
We also do not need more or bigger games. Who is going to play them? Maybe the next step is AI playing its own games too, so it seems like they have a player base….
I am sure after AI creates all the good games it also cures cancer, resolves world hunger and makes us all happy!