Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks for Roblox, Nintendo, CD Projekt Red, and more

Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks for Roblox, Nintendo, CD Projekt Red, and more

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ggeeoorrggee A clear reminder that the stock market trends are driven by people who know nothing about the technology’s capability, viability, or applicability. Invert this reaction and you have the over-valuation of every AI company in the field. Reply

timsSOFTWARE If anything, I think this technology will probably be helpful to the game industry – it can be used to help visualize concepts, and get early focus test feedback on game concepts before a lot of money and effort gets spent on them. There may even be limited applications for this type of technology in neural rendering – transforming a base version of a scene using AI-driven imagination prior to final output. But there is no direct path to using this technology to replace game development in a more general sense any time in the near/foreseeable future. And even if in the longer-term future it scales to the human-level of dreams, dreams wouldn't make very good videogames. Dreams have inconsistent rules, and make no guarantees about the sort of experience they are going to provide. Reply

thisisaname ggeeoorrggee said: A clear reminder that the stock market trends are driven by people who know nothing about the technology’s capability, viability, or applicability. Invert this reaction and you have the over-valuation of every AI company in the field. Aye driven by people and and amplified by AI? Reply

Notton Yeah, from what it sounds like, this is a tool that helps lay out the concepts and ideas, rather than replace a game engine entirely. Reply

bit_user I'd never want to play a game made purely by AI. The time I spend gaming is quite limited, and I therefore prioritize the best designed experiences by skilled and experienced creators. I don't mind if they happen to use AI-enabled tools to accelerate the creative process, so long as the entire game has been carefully designed, tested, and streamlined by a skilled team. So, in my opinion, the biggest risk from a tool like this is just that it clogs game marketplaces with too much slop and potentially makes it harder to fund skilled development teams, leading to drops in the quality & quantity of their output. That would be a shame. Reply

hotaru251 day gaming EVER becomes mostly generative ai is day I only play older games 😐 Reply

beyondlogic ai is a bloated beast that will eventually fall like the crypto market someone will fall and the dominos will fall with it. Reply

JohnyFin Steam already is covered by Indy crap games, what will be on next 5 years….guess! 🤣🤣🤣 Reply

bill001g What do you call a game engine. The world didn't end when those tools were developed. Code generation of one form or another has existed for years they just didn't call it AI. Even I wrote something you could technically call a game just playing around with these tools. The main thing the AI can not do it invent something that is a completely new idea. Then again most games are already reskinned slop just written by humans. Reply

TerryLaze ggeeoorrggee said: A clear reminder that the stock market trends are driven by people who know nothing about the technology’s capability, viability, or applicability. Invert this reaction and you have the over-valuation of every AI company in the field. A clear reminder to people like you: They don't need to know anything about the technology, all they need to do is to know how other shareholders are going to react to news like that and that's psychology and the same for any market. bit_user said: so long as the entire game has been carefully designed, tested, and streamlined by a skilled team. So you don't play any games at all…. beyondlogic said: ai is a bloated beast that will eventually fall like the crypto market someone will fall and the dominos will fall with it. Yes yes, A.I. is a bubble it will go away just like the other big bubble we had, what was it called…internet…something like that?!? Reply

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