Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be

Perfect headline.

Man, I'm getting tired of everyone and their cat saying shit like "AI will...".

With how loosely defined "AI" is, it probably will at some point. But that statement is also completely worthless.

It's impressive how many Ls one man can take while still getting media coverage

Man I thought he got better after he admitted that NFTs were a mistake, he can't help himself.

What a shame, I was ready to forgive the dude and play Masters of Albion, I loved black & white and there aren't any clones of it.

When an AI is able to take and write every single line of code, generate all the art, and debug it just by having someone as code dumb as a CEO type in a prompt, I'll believe his words and eat my shirt.

Bro still out here overhyping, he can't help himself.

you guys joke but AI npcs have the potential of being awesome

There is a possibility something like this will be possible in the future, but it's not going to be an achievement of AI, it's largely going to be the achievement of regular developers creating a general-purpose game engine that can be used to put together a game block by block, which can be utilized by both human game designers and AI. (Likely to better effect by the former.) I can imagine Entity Component Systems will play a big part of that.

One of the biggest blockers for AI making games is going to be testing it to select for better performance. With text it's relatively easy to see if some text an AI produced is plausible. Images are also plentiful, but that's a lot more subjective. With both of these it would also not take a massive amount of time to add a human element. It's quick to check if a paragraph or image looks like it is a good response to the input promt. A game, however? How long do you need to play it to see if it's fun? At best, perhaps, you can write an AI to control a bot character to see if it's technically playable.

I don't want to even think about the electricity that wlll be wasted training such models.

Grifter gonna grift.

Who is still giving this man money?

This lifelong grifter has embraced AI? Shocker.

This is one of the best titles in a long time.

25 years might actually be a potentially realistic timeframe for that. But I'd still bet on a little longer myself. I hope it happens within my lifetime.

Capitalists don’t know shit about what the working class wants. These video game folks continue to prove this true.

BEAT THAT PETAR MOLINEXU!