Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Epic C-suite: I know, let's make it even more resource intensive, when no-one can afford high end cards, there's no supply of them anyway and nothing much new apparently in the pipeline for consumers. That'll work.

[-] warm@kbin.earth 9 points 3 months ago

Disastrous UE5 engine gets worse!

[-] rursta@retrolemmy.com 8 points 3 months ago

real reason Tim Sweeney put up that Cheat Engineer position🤭

[+] metermatic26@lemmy.world -18 points 3 months ago

For once this is an AI application I’m actually rooting for.

Imagine scripting, or texture design, or lighting, or terrain mapping made easy by advanced models.

Heck, even something as basic as having NPC dialogue being powered by an LLM would be awesome.

[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 25 points 3 months ago

Those are the exact aspects where an artist's vision matters the most. A phrase like "the lighting in this game is incredible" is only true because someone spent an inordinate amount of effort on it. Same for writing, or landscaping, or even scripting, no matter how invisible it may seem. It's nuts to suggest that those are the parts we want to outsource to a lifeless, frictionless machine.

Don't be afraid to say that there is no good use case for AI, "a solution in search of a problem" is not meant to be responded to with "challenge accepted."

[-] metermatic26@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago

I beg to differ. Not every design choice is a creative one. There’s plenty of technical and/or repetitive work even in game development. And AI models are the sort of blunt tools that can help speed up some of the less glamorous work as well as lower the entry bar for people who’s creativity outweighs their technical prowess.

[-] BunScientist@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

You don't need fully fledged models to do small repetitive tasks

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

The fact you think NPC dialogue is something ’basic’ shows how little you know about narrative design, unfortunately.

[-] metermatic26@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No, not at all. I was referring to LLM’s as ‘basic’ applications of AI.

And I’m not talking about having ChatGPT write your dialogue, but more subtle applications like having your player enter their own questions or responses, running the input through a language model and then selecting the most appropriate (pre-defined) response.

In other words, creating the illusion of a more authentic interaction even though you are still railroading the player.

[-] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 8 points 3 months ago

Oh no, not this idea again. Nvidia already pitched this concept a few years ago. Leaving aside the security blunder of giving a player an unbounded text box attached to an unpredictable machine, it was apparent immediately that it would become a reflecting pool for the absolute worst player behaviors. Every single female NPC would be instantly derailed by trolls asking to see her boobs. I don't think even Nvidia bothered with the concept after it's first showcase.

[-] RadioEthiopiate@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

To be fair, you don't need an LLM for that. The earliest text-based RPGs operated on free text input from the player, which would trigger actions based on keywords. (e.g., "go north", "pick up lantern", etc.")

You could do the same thing with dialogue. It's just a bunch of work and kinda clunky, but so is talking to a chatbot.

[-] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 months ago

LLM NPCs are already a thing and they’re awful.

[-] rursta@retrolemmy.com 5 points 3 months ago

But who will afford all the hardware required to compute these🙃

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