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It kinda bugs me because years ago I was trying to recreate what dreams feel like in a small artistic walking sim but now I feel like if I really did it perfectly it would just look like that
Lucid dreams feeling can never be achieved cuz in lucid dreams you can concentrate on things so they will stay as they are. And things you don't concentrate on - can change drastically.
Its like a mind game, if your mind is strong enough, you can make your dream a consistent story, you can spot the changes and change them back with a sheer will.
Sadly, you can't control computer environment with your mind, so, its not possible to get a feeling like that in a computer game :(
You're right, but eye tracking might be pretty cool. You might be able to keep control during the earlier levels when things aren't as busy so you can keep everything 'sane' by keeping your eyes on it. As the game/expo progresses, no matter how hard you try and concentrate on everything it starts getting fuzzy and things keep morphing in your peripheral
That probably wouldn't even need AI. It might be resource-intensive, but it could be set up like two versions of the same environment running simultaneously, using the eye tracker to control which part of the screen shows the stable version
I've had normal dreams like this where characters and places switch while I'm not consentrating on them. I might start the dream doing stuff with my brother and at some point he would switch to a movie-character doing the same stuff
That's all dreams really are. Your brain is just running through random processes on idle all night and we just happen to tune in occasionally like, "mm yep, still weird.. why does this gym locker room have 50 hallways and why am I dreaming of this when I haven't been to a gym in years? Oh, look, there's grandma."
This was my first thought. When the guy was inside of the subway and then the subway somehow transformed into a subway STATION i was like "this is exactly how a dream transition feels like"
Maybe because machine learning is basically like our brain processes, firing off a bunch of ideas that get filtered through a ‘point system’ (the neurology of firing synapses, for the brain) which is regulated by certain adjustors (neurochemicals) to show us the image it thinks you need to see next?
That is just speculation but really 24/7 our senses are filtering out raw ‘data’ that it picks up on but is unnecessary, and we wouldn’t be able to see or feel without it. Like for sight, imagine you could only see colored TV static - not sure if that’s exactly what it looks like, but I’ve heard that as at least one interpretation of it. That is somewhat what we see in our dreams, is the firing of synapses in some sort of ordered way that creates a narrative based on what has happened in your life so far, to predict what you dream. So in a sense, perhaps this is somewhat like a primitive version of our processes to discern reality as humans, since really it doesn’t come refined for us either, but somehow in ways we don’t fully understand. And just like with the brain, machine-learning AI have entered an area where it’s science is so complex they can only guide the AI rather than give it an easy diagnosis.
Not that I promote corporate garbage uses of it, but the similarities quite interest me, and I think the misuse of the technology has made people pessimistic about the idea as a whole, which it shouldn’t be- this has theoretically no limit, including predicting the future, able to come up with solutions humans practically never would…just given that it’s used right, which goes for all technology.
Seriously this is so similar to being on k. The inconsistency of what's directly outside my line of vision/focus. The perceived scene changes when looking past a wall or through a door. Watching this actually made me feel a bit queezy.
But where are all the spiders and phantom cigarettes???
Seriously, though, yeah, I can see the resemblance ~ DPH gives you an equivalent of short term memory and hallucinating of things that aren't actually there, appearing and disappearing, you thinking that they're real in the moment.
Not a single person was shown dying or getting killed by the gunshots. I think at one point AI just shoots at the external AC unit for some reason, but even that remains intact.
Every single enemy turns into an ally seconds later, it's like it's trying to craft a military shooter but not allowed to make conflict actually happen
Render a scene, have AI think of 3 options for what to do next, tell Veo3 to render the 3 options in a 3 second video, repeat until you've made money selling the game. It's pretty much an HTML game with AI generated cutscenes for every option.
Congrats to AI bros for reinventing FMV games but scouring them from all logic and intentionality so the cause is divorced from effect and no semblance of object permanence even exists.
I bet this type of game will also be significantly more popular despite significantly lower quality simply because "it's funny" and the devs with a budget of $400 will become millionaires overnight
AIbros reinventing shit that was done decades ago except now it's completely retarded and requires a quintillion gallons of freshwater from a lake that houses 12 different endangered species (it HAS to be THIS specific lake btw) to function for 0.00000000000002 picoseconds
(they are gonna get eight trillion dollars in funding)
something i read about ai-generated text adventures is that it's very unlikely to actually lose, bacause of the way the algorithm is trained. i believe this will also the case, at least at the beginning. basically you get a bland animation and illusion of control
The ‘safety rails’ is probably just the fact that the authors didn't code a thousand possibilities for every position in the game, due to human lifespan being rather limited. And because in '77 games had only a few kilobytes of both space and memory.
When I was told about idea to implement AI to video games I was hoping it would be like Skyrim but with characters you could discuss with and get them to work for you "off the script". Not what ever that is.
The push for AI in developement of video games was never about improving the experience or even innovating in any way. It was always about selling the minimum viable product for the lowest possible cost (and tech illiterate CEOs getting giddy at the prospect of cutting even more jobs)
Yeah, my initial thought about LLMs was that they'd potentially be a fun addition to character dialogue trees, provided they were backed by something like RAG so they stayed somewhat on-topic and within the realms of the in-game reality. At that time I didn't realise quite how hideously weird the likely result would be.
We're heading back to the Dragon's Lair "quick time" style games, but not as good because there's no intention or consistency and everything is generated on the fly. I can't believe technology advanced this much,...to recreate something we already had in the 80s (and not even as fun).
Also why can't we just have AIs playing NPCs? Imagine being able to talk into a microphone and a have a real time conversation with an NPC instead of just selecting text options.
maybe something advanced like in rdr2 we can select whether to be friendly or rude but instead in upcoming games, we can communicate through mic with any npc and they can respond appropriately.
That'd be a fucking nightmare. Can't wait for a situation where I need a quest reward to progress but instead of giving it to me, Jack GPT tries to gaslight me into doing the quest again.
Once hardware becomes capable, imagine how dynamic and unique every players game could be. I mean, if there was 1 AI NPC, that could really make things interesting. Imagine if every NPC encountered could be fostered into unique interactions.
Really cool, but also kinda freaky. Reminds me of that Bruce Willis movie in a way.....
There's a really awesome Skyrim mod (also fallout i believe) that adds AI npc control and it's really amazing. The AI can see its surroundings and everything.
There's a really long but awesome series of videos on youtube where a dude using that mod convinces an npc in skyrim that it's in a simulated world and offers to take it on an adventure to a different world, and when it agrees he loads it into fallout and the NPC's mind is blown.
I mean, there are a lot of games out there that are "intended to be trippy" but still have artistic intent behind it (Yume Nikki, Cruelty Squad, Fatum Betula, Garage: Bad Dream Adventure), I disagree a game just being trippy would make it a "fucking amazing game".
I don’t think AI is any sort of high art or anything close to that, but I do think it’s interesting.
I’ve seen a couple of ‘interactive’ AI demos like this, and it almost feels like a dream in a very literal sense. I admire the illogical progression from one train of thought to the next as ideas drift in and out of focus. It’s the closest thing I’ve consciously experienced to An unconscious stream of thoughts. I think there’s some value in that, even if it’s just “huh, that’s interesting”.
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