I strongly feel this AI-powered demo of Quake 2 is an insult to life itself
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Summary
Tech company Microsoft has made a version of the 1990s game Quake II which is powered by AI and playable online.
It is intended to showcase what Microsoft calls “game ideation” using AI, and is driven by its Muse technology.
The version of Quake II is very low quality, with poor graphics, and the gameplay is unresponsive.
That is because the AI generates each segment of game as and when a human player interacts with it, making it essentially reactionary, rather than using stored memory as traditionally programmed games do.
Playing it results in a nauseating experience, like a bad dream of the original game, and the Microsoft website warns that “Copilot may make mistakes”.
Watching MS demonstrate its AI gaming technology on Twitter led to wrath from followers, who see it as a threat to real human game designers’ livelihoods.
