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Copy+paste is still a pain in the ass in Microsoft Teams. Why don’t you work on that instead?
No, fix the search first!
“We heard you, and added more AI to it!”
I can’t make a correct numbered list in Teams to save my life. I have to do it on word and then…copy paste
Teams is kind of awesome of what you want to do is exchange emojis and funny gifs with your co-workers. Not so much if you want to work.
I miss the days when applications were coded like applications, not like web sites. The ammount of clutter that goes behind the scenes to get a simple OK button on screen these days must be mind numbing.
“You could imagine a world where…”
Sure, I can imagine a lot of things, and a lot of them will never materialize.
I tried playing it but it’s so incoherent (walls becoming paths, dead enemies randomly coming back to life, health pickups that do nothing, etc) that I’m not even sure this counts as a game. Typically a game has rules so that you can set how you play according to those rules. This is just poorly-generated trash, which I guess fits in with the rest of the hot garbage AI we’ve currently got.
I wonder what else it can get wrong for only the cost of a few glaciers.
Can I steal this quote and pretend I came up with it?
You can claim the quote is Fair Use and that your shitty business model depends on it.
Fucking stupid, this timeline sucks
But, we already have quake.
But if it’s AI generated, who are they going to lay off after they release it?
Ted and Cheryl in accounting. I’m calling it now.
Surely not Ted! That mighty hero dines at the Allfather’s banquet, surrounded by the mightiest heros of all the ages!
No no, I mean Ted Pendergast
Lmao
Thank god, I’ve been waiting for this my whole life /s
Hit detection doesn’t work, going into pure darkness makes the AI hallucinate to the point it distorts the map layout, npcs will teleport around ot just disappear… runs at like 640p at maybe 20 fps, textures are a blurred indistinct mess…
Oh and it requires basically a super computer to run this.
Brilliant.
Preservation!
How to actually do games preservation:
Reform IP laws.
Mandate open sourcing of hardware and software architectures after some period of time. 10 years? 5 years after no more of that hardware/software is sold? Yes texhnicalities are insanely complicated but you get the idea.
Oh, how about government funding for emulator development? We fund libraries that preserve books, and movies, and other stuff.
I love how corporations anounce: we stole something and call it AI.
In this case, Microsoft does own the IP (it bought Bethesda after Bethesda bought id), so they definitely didn’t legally steal it.
Technically they stole from themselves because they didn’t transfer ownership from Bethesda to Microsoft. Those are still separate entities.
They just reproduced it in the most uninteresting way possible.
Nobody wants this
Maybe some want this, but nobody needs this.
Wait until Preston shows up with his AI generated radiant quests before you judge.
The tech demo is part of Microsoft’s Copilot for Gaming push, and features an AI-generated replica of Quake II that is playable in a browser. The Quake II level is very basic and includes blurry enemies and interactions, and Microsoft is limiting the amount of time you can even play this tech demo.
Microsoft is still positioning Muse as an AI model that can help game developers prototype games. When Muse was unveiled in February, Microsoft also mentioned it was exploring how this AI model could help improve classic games, just like Quake II, and bring them to modern hardware.
Okay, here’s a much-less ambitious use of existing AI technology that I think would be vastly-more-useful than whatever they’re off doing: how about just going out and using existing AI upscaling techniques and limited human interaction to statically-upscale the textures by maybe 2x to 4x, take advantage of more VRAM on newer hardware?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/
That’s kind of what this is for.
That’s frame scaling in real-time, rather than offline texture scaling.
I mean the demo capability isnt bad, could test out 100 ideas before you commit. But thats not what this is going to be used for. Its going to be a weapon against developers eventually.
There is a lot of potential for generating on the fly skins and specs. Everyone seems to want to do stupid flashy junk, but a well configured agentic setup could easily get constrained in ways that alter geometry and interactions more dynamically than the broad scope nonsense I keep seeing.
No.
Every time I see this I think about opportunity costs. What got skipped in favor of this dubious effort?
Quality and security
Originality
Fun.
Don’t want a friggin thing to do with it then.
