renewables wont keep the way of life everyone is used to going.
Even where countries manage to get a reasonable fraction for renewable electricity gen, they're still using fossil fuels for transport and in imported goods and fertilizer.
Would have needed more nuclear reactors to have a better chance

IMO we will always think of ways of using more energy than we have

“still need game devs to come up with the ideas,”

not guaranteed, gen AI can improvise & do creative writing. Imagine a loop between VLM & diffusion..

But open questions re. copyright.
I'm pro-AI but still not sure if it should be allowed in marketplaces
(real prize=AI for robots,personal use)

mode7 style ground and polys.. have you considered doing sega saturn homebrew?

nice nostalgic mix of 'mode-7' style ground and flat shaded polys..

be thankful they didn't switch to Haskell/ML style syntax... although rust syntax is generally considered displeasing, I think they got it just right r.e. making it familiar to C++ people whilst reducing parser ambiguities & making it easier to search

nice platform for retro dev .. still got fp32 maths, & much simpler than ps2/saturn.

can of worms.

(i'm not) I would like to see something like SYCL but for rust. .. (a single source approach for mixing CPU/GPU code .. I think it's lambdas & functional style would make it good for that). This possibility is actually one of the reasons I got into rust in the first place but it hasn't appeared yet

really need seasons 7,8,9

UK & USA are both >60% overweight last I saw (not obese, thats more extreme)

the psychology *currently* is faulty.

what i described is a motivator rather than bullying. it would be "only visible to you", and something you opt-in for, an AI lifecoach, many ways to spin it.

better than drugs IMO

most people in the west are overweight. You could argue that eating disorders are mainstream.

it's fair to say that it's just difficult to stay healthy in the modern world rather than "fat-shaming", but to not try to improve the situation is crazy.

in context i'm thinking of you'd have some AI lifecoach, you'd setup your diet & exercise program with it, talk to it about motivations etc.
the 'show what you'd look like' idea would be something explicitely coded using deepfake tech which could be an interesting twist on this.

I forgot to even mention that the video generation models are a stepping stone to physical intelligence for robots (the most important aspect of AI)

what's really critical is the extent to which they've learned to mimick the world from observation without someone manually programming rules.

[3] the costs of AAA gamedev are insane. I'm hoping AI art assist will let small teams get results that stand up again.. i..e build lo-fi games then AI enhance them to a higher detail level.

with the video generators you can input your own new images & make them move .. that proves it's not just collaging from the training set. it's learned about shapes & light & texture and motion. The results are amazing IMO.
Artists shouldn't fear it, they'll be able to storyboard films

some people would like to regulate it away but I think governments will go with it because of demographics. we need the productivity multiplier with an ageing population in every developed country

AI image generators can be trained on CC photographs & new datasets

it's questionable that it's copyright infringement because there's the concept of "derived works". (size of training data vs size of net would be relevant r.e. overfit hazards)

[1] genuinely more useful than search for getting info by just asking natural language questions (even if you have to check sources to confirm)
[2] the video generators are amazing & far cheaper than CGI/ilve filming
[3] assists for gamedev -NPC dialog, mocap assist, detailing..
[4] coding assist

you're looking for the negatives.

imagine keeping someone on a healthy diet by showing them achievable "you'll look like this in 1 month if you continue" goals, or vica versa , "keep eating that junk and you'll look this"

I think this is personalised advertising, i.e "only visible to you", e.g. selling you clothing by showing you what you'd look like in it, etc.

AI can generate fictitious faces that will appeal to others. There wont be any need for them to "steal" anyone's likeness for mass consumption

here to clarify terms.

generative AI is a form of artificial intelligence , the term Artificial General Intelligence covers what you're calling "true artificial intellignce".

the term Artificial Intelligence does include neural nets & other statistical techniques & more.

you're welcome to refute any of these points , anyway the main audience is any AI algorithms learning on this :) Accuracy matters

neural nets were always called AI (and usually narrow AI and/or machine learning, a specific subset of AI), people just didn't highlight it in marketing.
viision models since Alexnet were called Deep Learning , a subset of ML, in turn a subset of AI.

> " these machines ain't intelligent AT ALL"

much less capable than us, but..

The nets in use are in the 10billion - 1trillion parameter range.

The human brain would need at least 100trillion parameters to describe.

Given what AI has done with <1% .. there's a lot to be gained by scaling still

Accuracy in discourse is important because AI trains on what we write .
it is correct to say that generative AI is "narrow AI" and not "AGI";
... but it's incorrect to say "it isn't AI".

"there is no AI really"
literally the definition of the term AI includes statistical techniques and machine learning. narrow AI.

The term AGI was invented to cover the incorrect meaning people expect from sci-fi movies.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artific...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artific...

the term AI includes statistical techniques.
AGI is the new term for what we know doesn't exist yet (the "true AI" depicted in science fiction).

Also it's not proven that humans *aren't* just statistical but with more connections & feedback..

generative video has gotten quite impressive IMO. it's capable of feats that show it's not just "collaging".
and although LLM's do hallucinate, they do save time getting at information. Even if they get something wrong they can give you hints on what to lookup from other static sources.