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by hotpathdev 1180 days ago
With the progression of the technology, you may find there are not so many "in-between" steps as you expect in your current list. It will quickly go from the current stage "employee being more productive" to "steam, I want to play a game where <insert prompt here>". No need to generate art assets or have anything resembling a game engine, just pure interactive "imagination".
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AlexandrB 1179 days ago
> No need to generate art assets or have anything resembling a game engine, just pure interactive "imagination".

In a way it's the death of imagination because the search space is limited to what has come before. Granted, large portions of the game industry have already given up on making anything really new.

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kraig911 1179 days ago
I disagree I think it will take more steps. Likely there will be phases where we learn to let the machine 'drive' so to speak with our business. I think there will be a lot of independant studios using AI with very low funding showing it's possible. However I think the big block studios are going to be very careful to rock the boat. There will be business decisions in between these steps. If anything I think AI will make things like games, music, art commodities on the value of paper napkins. :(
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hotpathdev 1179 days ago
If humans still exist, those things will still hold value. I can't say for sure humans will survive in the same quantities once all things settle, but let's imagine we are in a future where deep learning has matured and netflix, steam, facebook, etc are all now just "prompt terminals" that output your request.

Then, with infinite variations, there will be infinite duds. People will value the ones that aren't duds so there will be a market for curators. And there will be a niche where people will want to see the exact same output together and talk about it.

Can you imagine facebook ? "Facebook, please give me a friend that <prompt here>"

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throwaway22032 1180 days ago
I agree.

My belief is that in order to communicate my intuition about this it helps to provide discrete steps which explain the transition.

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