Last week’s surprise departure of Phil Spencer from Microsoft led to the promotion of Asha Sharma, who comes to head Microsoft’s gaming division after two years as president of the company’s CoreAI Product group. Despite that recent history, Sharma says in a new interview that she has “no tolerance for bad AI” in game development.
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Meanwhile the head of another Soulless Tech Corporation Hellbent On Dehumanizing Game Development In Every Sense Of The Word “Dehumanize” Possible reminds us…
CEO Tim Sweeney says requiring developers to disclose their use of AI tools is as relevant as disclosing “what shampoo brand the developer uses,”
Don’t misunderstand me- I fucking hate LLMs and generative slop. I’m not commenting on whether the statement was made in good faith (I doubt it was), I’m just pointing out that we’ve been using the term “AI” as a descriptor of npc behavior for decades and it’s disingenuous to suggest otherwise.