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usertests It also hints that using real quantum hardware in PCs could become the new normal, one day. Discrete or integrated quantum accelerators could “accelerate complex tasks in a manner similar to a GPU.” Certainly it wouldn’t be more of a waste of silicon than the NPUs in my current AMD Ryzen AI and Intel Core Ultra PC systems. It's plausible that something like photonic quantum hardware will work at "room temperature" and make its way into PCIe cards or even SoCs. I would be impressed if quantum coprocessors became relevant to gaming in time to arrive in a PS7. Unless things speed up, it will miss that generation and not become relevant for ~20 years. Reply
Rand0m_Guy More AI, auto generated, garbage from lazy developers, but but but… you get to pick your pronouns at the start of the game and "they/them" is an option <sarcasm>. Reply
ttquantia Very unlikely to have quantum computers contribute anything useful to game development. This all sounds somebody producing hype to fool ignorant investors. Known applications of quantum computing are very narrow. There is for example no known useful way to solve any NP-hard optimization problems (time-tabling, scheduling and so on) faster than with conventional computers. Theoretically, yes, Grove's algorithm is asymptotically faster then conventional computers, but Grove's algorithm would be hopeless in solving any real-world scheduling problem, for example, as real-world algorithms are not running at their theoretical worst-case time, but much faster, and this is still much faster than Grove's algorithm. So what the Quantum-Computing-for-Games is going to be, exactly? I don't think anybody knows. Reply
hotaru251 ttquantia said: Very unlikely to have quantum computers contribute anything useful to game development tbh they would likely allow true RNG in games. (as its too resource demanding to use atm) Niche but would be an improvement. Reply
husker Good to know that the race to develop quantum computers is finally over. Sorry Microsoft, Google, Amazon, IBM… the game studio MiTale Ltd. beat you to it! Reply
moon2 hotaru251 said: tbh they would likely allow true RNG in games. (as its too resource demanding to use atm) Niche but would be an improvement. You'd be hard pressed to find any game which would in any way measurably better with "true RNG". Reply
Eximo True randomness often causes people to see patterns that don't exist. Whereas semi-random with things like excluding the immediate previous result and preventing repeated patterns tends to make people feel like it is truly random. It is seen commonly in digital gambling systems, and my favorite, shuffle on music players. Truly random means the same song can play multiple times in a row. Or the same dice roll. Not the behavior people are actually looking for. Reply
hotaru251 Eximo said: Or the same dice roll. Not the behavior people are actually looking for agreed however its "unfair" now as its designed that way. At least with true RNG you can't blame game for being rigged. Reply
Eximo hotaru251 said: agreed however its "unfair" now as its designed that way. At least with true RNG you can't blame game for being rigged. Favoring the house aside. People start complaining if they see the same results multiple times in a row. It makes them think the system is rigged. It is, but usually a simple bias towards the house. It would have less an impact on video games I would think. Loot tables might still need to be done how they are now, and things like damage rolls that are visible might be too fast for people to care about anyway. Reply
Bigshrimp So instead of AI slop games, we now have Quantum slop games. I wonder what will be next, Quantum AI Super Slop games? I actually chuckled pretty hard at this article.:P Reply
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