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It looks so much like that thing that happens when one gets way too into a game or other piece of media and then one's dreams are just an incoherent loop of something vaguely resembling it where nothing works right or makes any sense. No progression, no mechanics, just an endless replay of nonsense that vaguely resembles what one was doing or thinking about.

Although that seems to serve an important role in parsing and learning from it to do the actual task better, while this is just gibberish presented as a sideshow which goes nowhere and does nothing.

Microsoft is desperately trying to find an AI use case that isn’t cheating on homework or scam related.

The amount of 'generation' happening here - if you take that to mean remixing or creating new geometry or features rather than just a lower-res, non-permanent visual copy of the exact thing it was trained on - is next to nothing. The first corridor, the T junction, the outdoor area, the bridge across it, the corridor into the small indoor arena are all exactly the layout of that section of level in Quake 2. The only difference here seems to be that enemies appear and disappear at random (who wouldn't love to play a game where an enemy shoots you in a corridor and when you try to turn around and fight back it's gone forever?) and when the 'player' gets itself stuck in a dark corner it just teleports them somewhere else and starts again. Oh, and the small indoor arena presumably dead-ends because it's meant to have a staircase around a large pillar in it but the AI doesn't seem to be able to replicate it or deal with verticality in general.

Even scraping the absolute bottom of the barrel of any possible, moderated, benefit-of-the-doubt, ongoing research expectations this is such dogshit to the point of being more of a demonstration of why this tech absolutely will not ever be a viable product. Doubly so when you account for the amount of resources, cost, time, and even people involved in this process compared to what a dozen or so people made 30 years ago and one person could knock up in little to no time comparatively now.

There are actually people in the comments defending this and one of them used the word luddite, which is ironic, because the Luddites were right and did nothing wrong.

So glad we burned through 9000 solar panels worth of energy to produce a facsimile of something that a 486 can handle on 10 watts of power.

i love that looking up or down will teleport you away. the world has no permanence. enemies turn to semi-transparent ghosts if you back away and either come back to life or disappear completely if you come close again.

at my most cynical i guess new games will be developed this way to save money of put "ai" in the name or something, and people won't notice or care about the obvious flaws same way people don't notice how machine-generated images look like garbage and can't tell a machine-generated photo from an actual photo. i personally like when care and thought are put into things like small details, when things have some kind of vision or idea behind them, but i'm in the minority i'm sure

I played it the other day for a minute and I thought it would be a little interesting in a horror context. You look down then look up and suddenly you're not even in the same room. Yhe enemies all looked like shapes that resembled human figures but were distinctly... wrong.

I think those ideas could be transported into a horror game (made without AI because the microsoft thing was genuinely unplayable and a whole host of other reasons) because it was a bit unsettling, to be honest.

This is so bad it doesn't even qualify as slop

It's a cool proof of concept and that's where it should stay.

you know what i never asked for. i never asked for billions of dollars to make a game exactly like when i "play" a 1st person game in my dreams

great use of finite resources

This is still the best they got. Pathetic.

Of course all the comments love it inexplicably

what do my brainworms need to whisper to me for this to make sense. How do I get from "quake was a very influential game in the 90s" to "we should do one that looks and runs like ass, with AI"?

Interesting project. Cool idea but not at all worth it.