simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 10:08:25 JST
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Not that I'm in any sense knowledgable in that field, but the whole discussion on AI that we had throughut the year 2023 baffles me. As if AI were something totally new. But I don't think it's wrong or overstated to say that every game engine is a form or variant of AI, and that means we live with AI at least since the beginning of the video game era. If we only retrict ourselves to the time when video games started to become a mass cultural phenomenon, then we talk at least of the period since 3d-graphics progamming entered the game genre. Which would be 1982 (with the game "Wayout") and seriously starting in 1990.
So if we indeed already live with AI in form of entertainment-enhancing technology for 33 years, the hoopla about ChatGPT and other AI systems becomes rather unintelligible or: banal. The main reason it creates such excitement today – like it did in the lift-off of video games 33 years ago – is that it enables a breakthrough in experience on the level of the individual person.
Like 33 years ago individual people ("gamers") could immerse in sensory interactions on their own (as well as in groups), the same seems to happen today: Everyone can have ChatGPT and other AI systems write something for you or make an animation for you (text-to-video). The "societal" implications, the implications for economies, technology, and capitalism at large, are minor in comparison to what "AI as experience" creates in the individual person. But again: Nothing (totally) new here, just more of the same stuff.
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