Wishful thinking of AI benefits dramatically outweights understanding of long term negative impacts of it.

Huge update!

Oh my, flashbacks..

Many complain about the effect of it. But uncanny animations stand out so much when graphics tries to be too realistic, but animation is not. When style is more artistic, then animation can be synthetic too. But now there is aignificant desync.

Arc Raiders is called "dead" by the communities, while Embark is still making tons of cash. Likely afraid to change anything to risk cash flow. The loud minority is ignored (twitter, youtube). Some players definitely feel betrayed and unanswered. While majority of players are in isolated bubbles (consoles), playing as usual.

The industry is rehiring many of those who were cut "because of AI", as AI did not match the hyped expectations, requiring significant human expertise and domain knowledge. It resulted in a big exchange of staff across big tech companies. The public realisation of hype, is usually an indication of hype's peak. While we are still waiting for major IPOs, if the flow of cash in AI will start to dry out, we might see the beginning of the burst. Not every AI company will survive. Some of them are already trying to diversify, to not have all eggs in one bucket. @spacexai in that sense is in a good place.

I've configured Epic's version control system: Lore. On a dedicated server. It was very easy, and push/sync speeds are really fast. It's extremely efficient. The only critique is not a straightforward authentication configuration. Otherwise it feels great.

Recipe: Screen texture - Half-resolution R32UI texture (4b of indices). Objects are rendered with flat colors; each color is an index into the embedding atlas. Embedding atlas - Smaller RGBA16F texture array, sized by the number of unique objects. Each texel is a coordinate in semantic embedding space. Transformer - Reads the screen texture, looks up object meaning from the embedding atlas, and synthesizes the final image in realtime. Feedback - use previous frame motion warped to ensure stability. Optional: add more screen-texture types (G-buffer–like) to further guide synthesis. You keep full control over composition, objects, gameplay, and on-screen events. While have fully synthesized renderer.

These paddings! This popup works great for years, no need to change it. But I bet some designers had a significant butt hurt looking at the top right corner of this popup.