Microsoft is one of the industry giants most invested in developing technologies related to artificial intelligence. Recently, this took the form of Muse, a generative AI with numerous properties. In combination with Copilot, it aims in particular to help players. This time, it's a technical demo inspired by Quake 2, a true FPS monument, with an aura equivalent to DOOM. Except that the homage stops there, because everything else has caused a catastrophic uproar on the Internet.
A technical demo created using AI that causes a real Quake
In order to develop its Muse AI, Microsoft has made a technical demo of level generation available to the public. Available on Copilot Labs and playable via a browser, it offers to "dynamically generate gameplay sequences from the classic Quake 2". The Redmond company also sells the technical demo in these terms: "Each input triggers the next AI-generated event, just like you were playing the original game on a traditional engine." More precisely, Muse dynamically predicts the game's next action using proprietary Human Action Model technology.
Unfortunately, after trying the demo, the reality is much different. Everything appears blurry, the controls have enormous latency, and the frame-by-frame gameplay can legitimately make you dizzy. Worse still, the AI that is trying to reproduce Quake 2 currently seems to be having difficulty remembering what it generated a few moments earlier. This makes the experience very disturbing and greatly harms the level design of the demo.
The strong reactions to this reproduction of Quake 2 by the AI were not long in coming. On social networks, we can see many players protesting. The game can run on a calculator, why are you doing the same thing in the most expensive and energy-intensive way possible? ; " This is why thousands of developers lost their jobs: to be replaced by AI and such soulless horrors ", " I don't know what it is, but this abomination is not Quake 2 ", among other examples of edifying reactions. This new attempt to create a game thanks to AI therefore arouses as much fear for the future as a certain disdain. It remains to be seen see if this will influence the projects of industry giants in the field or not.
Source: Copilot
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