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Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) (www.tomshardware.com)
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Yesterday, Google announced Project Genie, a new generative AI tool that can apparently create entire games from just prompts. It leverages the Genie 3 and Gemini models to generate a 60-second interactive world rather than a fully playable one. Despite this, many investors were scared out of their wits, imagining this as the future of game development, resulting in a massive stock sell-off that has sent the share prices of various video game companies plummeting.

The firms affected by this include Rockstar owner Take-Two Interactive, developer/distributors like CD Projekt Red and Nintendo, along with even Roblox — that one actually makes sense. Most of the games you find on the platform, including the infamous "Steal a Brainrot," are not too far from AI slop, so it's poetic that the product of a neural network is what hurt its stock.

Unity's share price fell the most at 20%, since it's a popular game engine. Generally speaking, that's how most games operate: they use a software framework, such as Unity or Unreal Engine, which provides basic functionality like physics, rendering, input, and sound. Studios then build their vision on top of these, and some developers even have their own custom in-house solutions, such as Rockstar's RAGE or Guerrilla's Decima.

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[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They would be capable of imitating a counter for some timeframe but to actually keep track of it over a long gaming session?

The article was little light on the details, but if the whole game is run on ai thats what is going to happen. But if AI is creating real code and the game it creates has real files that are saved on the computer, things like point counters are not anymore tied by the limits of AI's memory.

But i just dont see how AI in its current state could make large cohesive projects.

Also there is no such thing as artificial intellect. AI is just nice marketing word for something that tries to mimic what real AI would be.

[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's not generating any code. You don't even get a game out of the model, you only get a video of what you played. It's like an AI video generator except you have control over the camera and character.

[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Wait, didn't someone already make exactly this but only for Minecraft?

Edit: yep, and it's already 2 years old: https://oasis-ai.org/

[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So its a glorified a procedural generator that does not save anything it makes?

What the fuck. Its like saying game devs are being replaced because people see dreams when they sleep.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

That's a very good analogy. Yeah, this is stupid. What's even dumber than the concept itself, is freaking out over it and selling stocks. This technology should not intimidate anyone, it's impressive by some limited metrics, but it's not in any way effective at creating a video game.