I could see this being useful for those with disabilities like muscular dystrophy. Maybe let the AI handle repetitive, input-heavy parts and take over the gameplay at key moments so as to minimize muscle pain.
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I wouldn't mind playing games co-op with AI.
Ive got incredible news for you
Few games actually have that and even fewer have ones that play well.
So many games have companions tho. Most of the time, I don't want them but they are forced upon me. Such as in Wo Long or Skyrim.
Yeah, I'm talking about games where they're designed for humans to play together.
Well, I have found that It Takes Two really only takes two controllers and beat it all by myself with these two hands. 😤
That sounds awful, but then again not as awful as dealing with my wife trying to aim
Why would I want AI to play the game other than for testing?
Beat Elon in PoE
I don't need AI to do that unless I am actually playing against the dude he pays to play for him.
Why the fuck is AI always being applied to only parts of society that are fun?
So you can spend more time working shit jobs for shit pay. Aren't you happy? 😊
AI took that too! Oops all joblessness! 🤩
I want LLMs to be used to create thousands of characters that have agency in like, Skyrim or something, and to watch the absolutely unhinged fucking chaos of what it creates.
I don't want it to play games for me.
I don't even want that, I'd rather a game have its characters and writing created with intent by a person who cares.
If you use ai as an additive technology rather a replacement to things then really cool, ethical oppurtinitites open up for its use.
Rather than training a voice actor for a small handful of npcs that say the same four lines ad infinitum,pay them the same amount to License their voice, train a model, and use that for the game. Pair this with an LLM and suddenly you have pcs capable of saying all kinds of hillarious shit.
Have the coders that always write box behaviour to write the behaviour of npcs. The give players the option to talk them into doing some weird LLM powered shit.
Like. You can use ai to add things to games. It doesn't have to replace people's
I think a part of why people hate it is that idiots are trying to use it to replace things people do.
Where it's best is when it does things people can't
I'm going to be honest those do not sound like good uses. I want games to be designed with intent, not on the spot by an LLM.
That would be so freaking cool
Bold to assume having an AI play the game for testing is actually useful. Given how buggy games release nowadays i genuinely wonder which companies still properly have play testers. An AI whose results you mostly ignore is pointless.
An AI whose results you mostly ignore is ~~pointless~~ good for driving up the share price artificially
ftfy
I suspect it's not a lack of playtesters that's the problem, but harsh deadlines and crunch. That type of environment leads to tech debt to get things working fast, which leads to hard-to-manage code, which leads to bugs...
I want AI to do my chores not play my games.
Sorry, AI must only be inserted into places it isn't actually wanted.
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Great! Now the AI can play the video games for me while I do the dishes. I swear it was the other way around in the SciFi.
Shut up and get back down the mines or your robot manager-security-cop will have to terminate you. Meet your billionaire-enforced quota and you'll live to enjoy another day of mining.
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Game companies: spend millions fighting cheating and cheat software.
Nvidia: here comes AI game assist!
Next: game companies can subscribe to NVIDIA anti-AI-cheating AI. This is innovation under capitalism.
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That’s cool. AI can do art and writing and video games for me. It can watch all my shows. All I have to do is work and maybe sleep. Sounds fun.
How much legal trouble would I get for kicking a CEO in the testicles? it feels like it would be worth it if I ever met NVIDIA's bosses.
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Y'all laugh but there are way too many people into idle games, not to mention people who prefer watching a stream (even without commentary) over playing a game itself.
I cannot comprehend why, though, just like I can't comprehend how cheating (particularly single player) can be fun.
Cheats in single player games is a blast.
It gets old quick but it's fun for a while.
how cheating (particularly single player) can be fun
Have you never played a game with unreasonable grind that saps all the fun out of it ? Often just to drive player hours and 'engagement'. Multiplayer cheats however can die in a fire.
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I was laughing along until you said "watching a stream (even without commentary)". Yeah I've done that one. Sometimes I want to see what's next in the game without spending 100 hours to get there ><. Also watching lets me mentally unwind, playing takes a mental toll.
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I guess Elon won't be needing gamers' services to max out his characters anymore.
Fucking AI taking valuable jobs away again.
Great, another fun thing the LLM craze want to take from me. FFS.
that and the polar ice caps
The age of ai-generated streamers is coming...
People and corporations will automatize all the process and turn it into passive income, and a lot of people will somehow watch it, making the thing profitable.
I'm tired of all this...
A Minecraft and Roblox streamer tried that a year ago, primarily as a pitch to investors to make a service for other streamers to make AI-generated content. His name is Kwebbelkop. This guy managed to make the laziest brand of content I have ever even heard suggested as an idea: An AI avatar reading an AI reaction to an AI-generated image. And I thought reaction videos were bad...
I'm tired of all this...
AI will do all the fun and creative things for you so you can get back to work
Apart from games, where this can also be used for more capabable and behaviourally more "interesting" NPCs (including computer opponents or teammates), the used techniques can be transferred to robotics. Quite a cool architecture.
Actually if they can use that to make good ai opponents for 4x games, it'd be pretty sweet
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