Carmack is an AI sent from the future, so he’s a bit biased.
There’s what AI could’ve been (collaborative and awesome), and then there’s what the billionaire class is pushing today (exploitative shit that they hit everyone over the head with until they say they like it). But the folks frothing at the mouth over it are unwilling to listen to why so many people are against the AI we’ve had forced upon us today.
Yesterday, Copilot hallucinated four different functions when I asked it to refactor a ~20 line TS function, despite me handing it 2 helper files that contained everything available for it to use. If I can’t confidently ask it to do anything, it’s immediately useless to me. It’s like being stuck with an impulsive liar that you have to get the truth out of.
Oh man this thing is amazing, it’s got some good memory as room layouts weren’t changing on me whenever they left the view unlike previous attempts I’ve seen with Minecraft.
https://copilot.microsoft.com/wham?features=labs-wham-enabled
What are you talking about? It looks like shit, it plays like shit and the overall experience is shit. And it isn’t even clear what the goal is? There are so many better ways to incorporate AI into game development, if one wanted to and I’m not sure we want to.
I have seen people argue this is what the technology can do today, imagine in a couple of years. However that seems very naive. The rate at which barriers are reached have no impact on how hard it is to break through those barriers. And as often in life, diminishing returns are a bitch.
Microsoft bet big on this AI thing, because they have been lost in what to do ever since they released things like the Windows Phone and Windows 8. They don’t know how to innovate anymore, so they are going all in on AI. Shitting out new gimmicks at light speed to see which gain traction.
(Please note I’m talking about the consumer and small business side of Microsoft. Microsoft is a huge company with divisions that act almost like seperate companies within. Their Azure branch for example has been massively successful and does innovate just fine.)
What are you talking about? For the technology it looks and plays amazing. This is a nice steady increase in capability, all one can hope for with any technology.
I don’t care about Microsoft, or what is commercially successful.
AAA dev here.
Carmack is correct. I expect to be dogpiled by uninformed disagreements, though, because on social media all AI = Bad and no nuance is allowed. If that’s your knee-jerk reaction, please refrain for a moment and calmly re-think through your position.
EDIT: lol called it
What AI tools are you personally looking forward to or already using?
Stable Diffusion does a lot already, for static pictures. I get good use out of Eleven for voice work, when I want something that isn’t my own narration.
I’m really looking forward to all of these new AI features in DaVinci Resolve 20. These are actual useful features that would improve my workflow. I already made good use of the “Create Subtitles From Audio” feature to streamline subtitling.
Good AI tools are out there. They are just invisibility doing the work for people that pay attention while all of the billionaires make noise about LLMs that do almost nothing.
I compare it to CGI. The very best CGI are the effects you don’t even notice. The worst CGI is when you try to employ it in every place that it’s not designed for.
I get it, AI has some significant downsides, but people go way overboard. You don’t have to tell people who use AI to kill themselves.
Somebody didn’t watch Terminator 2
