no, there isn't. if you can't see a path toward something being achievable -- and admit that the version of events you're describing is "made up" -- then that is not a future, definitionally. it's a fantasy
I feel like for Dave James this is embarrassing at best and irresponsible at worst… just to so fundamentally misrepresent the technology and the industry you’re writing about
Goofy ass article
Someone is a frustrated speculative fiction author.
why would i want my graphics card to decide a games graphics? like why??? the beauty of art and media in general is how different people approach things in their own way, ai generated slop is the antithesis to that, it is literally millions of artworks ground down into an infinite mediocrity
there’s a future where we build submarines out of bread. now, i’m not an expert in baking, oceanography, or industrial design, and everyone that i’ve talked to about it has slowly backed away while referring to a nonspecific family emergency, but
The thing is, even if we could stream graphics at 60FPS from mainframe farms at OpenAI, there straight up wouldn't be enough processing power for more than small amount of people at the time. Even if it was achievable for one person... Hundreds or thousands people playing the game at launch? Nope.
Wow this might be the first time I’ve seen silly AI stuff that ignores the capabilities of current graphics cards—which is truly remarkable given how innately tied the two technologies are. Such snake oil.
I imagine their fantasy is ‘computer make me a Mario game that looks and plays like Elden Ring.’ Then the computer pops together a game where the aesthetics don’t convey any information and conflicts with the gameplay But here in the real world it just is incredibly obviously not possible
never mind that this whole idea of replacing a game's look with AI-generated slop graphics completely ignores the intentionality underlying a game's art style, how it coheres with other elements, etc -- during a time when game makers are reckoning with the limits of realism, no less
All this AI stuff is feeding the “give everyone what we think they want make them want it make them need it so they’ll be an eternal source of cash and we’ll never be poor and never grow old or be sad ever again” mania that seems to have seized the whole planet.