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The tech demo is part of Microsoft’s Copilot for Gaming push, and features an AI-generated replica of Quake II that is playable in a browser. The Quake II level is very basic and includes blurry enemies and interactions, and Microsoft is limiting the amount of time you can even play this tech demo.
“You could imagine a world where from gameplay data and video that a model could learn old games and really make them portable to any platform where these models could run,” said Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer in February. “We’ve talked about game preservation as an activity for us, and these models and their ability to learn completely how a game plays without the necessity of the original engine running on the original hardware opens up a ton of opportunity.”
I have no idea what an AI generated version of quake has to do with game “preservation” when there are so many better ways to improve old games accessibility. But hey, at least we can burn more forest while playing AI Quake!!
You can try this AI Quake for yourself: https://copilot.microsoft.com/wham
Its very laggy for me but maybe someone with faster computer can make it work? Anyway I am not sure if people think its worth it.
The amount of energy it must take to generate a shitty version of Quake II. Yeesh.
While I agree with you and while I am not the biggest generative Ai fan, we have to admit this is still in early phase and is just a proof of concept what the technology is capable of. The version of this game might not be as good as the original (and that’s only mildly said), that this is possible like this with artificial intelligence tools is impressive.
Its like teaching an ape to program Quake 2. Even if its a shitty version of it, it would be ground breaking.
People don’t even look at AI generated photos for more than a second. “Oh neat, next.” SO much wasted electricity for instant garbage. One decent AI image has probably a 100+ shitty ones that are just wasting GPUs and hard drive space. When those drives are full and old they dump them and then fill up some more. A mountain of invisible shit wasting our resources.