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.
“You could imagine a world where from gameplay data and video that a model could learn old games and really make them portable to any platform where these models could run,” said Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer in February. “We’ve talked about game preservation as an activity for us, and these models and their ability to learn completely how a game plays without the necessity of the original engine running on the original hardware opens up a ton of opportunity.”
I have no idea what an AI generated version of quake has to do with game “preservation” when there are so many better ways to improve old games accessibility. But hey, at least we can burn more forest while playing AI Quake!!
You can try this AI Quake for yourself: https://copilot.microsoft.com/wham
Its very laggy for me but maybe someone with faster computer can make it work? Anyway I am not sure if people think its worth it.
Do you remember when writers strike, and the producents paid to cut leafs of trees, to denny them comfort of marching in shadow? It seems there is no limit of how much corporations are willing to pay to get rid of the inconveniences of dealing with human beings.
It seems that AI is amazing tool, that is bound to be used to make everything worse.
Maybe they can sell their AI Slop to AI slop? Really cut people right out of the equation.
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You’re describing my Facebook wall.
I think that’s just Facebook, surely no people actually use it any more?
Unfortunately not true. Some people still think Facebook is the Internet.
That’s what I don’t understand about the “executives”. They seem to hate the idea of paying people when they might actually save more money by treating employees well.