We really need to stop pointing to Artificial Intelligence as some panacea, with all the world’s problems one well-constructed AI prompt away from resolution. That’s especially true whe…
  • KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’m honestly somewhat offended at the mere suggestion that this could be acceptable.

  • Aielman15@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    AI techbros will have you believe that you can solve world hunger, cure cancer, and colonize Mars with a few prompts on ChatGPT.

    Yet their AI is still incapable of answering two prompts consecutively without making shit up, or drawing a human without turning it into an eldritch abomination.

    Game preservation could be fixed with open source emulators and fixing copyright laws so that I’m allowed to download a game nobody has profited from in two decades, but that’s not appealing to big corporations.

    • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, instead game preservation is being solved by abandonware and copyright infringement.

      Legal open source software is doing the heavy lifting, and then torrenting is sharing by he files. But there is a huge risk as there is no safety net to preserve the niche and unpopular games.

      The game publishers and broken copyright laws are blocks to preservation but fortunately people are just doing it anyway. And the more the big companies push against it (including targeting emulation systems for current systems) the more they push it underground and out of any control they might have had. Typical greed and stupidity.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      AI techbros will have you believe that you can solve world hunger, cure cancer

      And yet they don’t. Well, we already know how to solve world hunger. Just not a willingness.

      Researchers are using AI as an additional tool for discovering new drugs, but the techbros and pharmabros are going to be over charging for any new cures even if they become cheaper to discover.

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    3 months ago

    One thing Phil Spencer does not seem to care about is emulation. There are already Xbox and PlayStation emulators that allow access to more of both platforms back catalogues than any of the current generation consoles are capable of…

    Xbox could build cloud based emulators off the open source tools already available and make their entire Xbox back catalogue accessible to current users to stream. They could help improve the tools to ensure greater and greater compatibility for titles and then it would be there forever.

    The reason it doesn’t happen is money. They dont see money in game preservation so they dont bother beyond a few big name nostalgia hits. Muse AI isn’t about game preservation, its about game development - they’re just pissing around with game preservation to feed it content as a punt on the future for it somehow making game development cheaper.

    • pycorax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I can’t say I buy this fully. From a marketkng standpoint, it seems like a huge win: “Subscribe to game pass ultimate and you get thousands of games old and new, up by thousands from last year”. From a financial standpoint, running those emulators should be a lot less compute heavy than current games so it should be cheaper.

      The only real issue I see here is legal. Licensing the rights to distribute the games via streaming for their entire back catalogue can’t be easy.

  • quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    i agree with the headline. strongly. didn’t read the article.

    btw is tech dirt still funded by (one of) Koch bros?

    edit: honestly, just checking. won’t complain, whatever the answer.

    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      3 months ago

      According to their Wikipedia, Techdirt only accepted money from Charles Koch’s foundation for a lawsuit (amongst other donors), and are owned by Floor64.

      Floor 64’s website only has 2 people listed in their management team, but I couldn’t dig up if either are linked to the Koch’s (I was pretty cursory about it though).

      The article was worth a read for this quote alone:

      VGHF library director Phil Salvador puts it even more simply: “Generative AI video is a great way to preserve video games, in the sense that mirages are a great source of water.”