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- Comment on Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours 2 days ago:
That’s a classic one. I’m surprised it’s still happening.
- Comment on If these leaked GTA Online sales figures are legit, you can see why Rockstar are holding off GTA 6's PC release 5 days ago:
Well, “free mods” does not describe the Rockstar owned and run FiveM to me. But fair enough, I guess.
- Comment on If these leaked GTA Online sales figures are legit, you can see why Rockstar are holding off GTA 6's PC release 5 days ago:
Of course. But this article is about the cash cow that is GTAO. GTAO is the most profitable game in the history of gaming. It’s so substantial that it makes sense to consider it a separate thing for discussion.
Story mode, where “free mods” are totally cool, is not making ongoing revenue from people who purchased GTAV. And conflating the two with a comment about mods is off target.
- Comment on If these leaked GTA Online sales figures are legit, you can see why Rockstar are holding off GTA 6's PC release 5 days ago:
This is GTAO. So calling the disruptive hacks and cheating “free mods” is strange. Hacking and cheating in multiplayer games sucks.
- Comment on Steam Controller shows signs of life, as leaker suggests that Valve has received its "first large quantity" shipments 6 days ago:
I have a bunch of nice controllers that all work on my gaming PC and Macs, etc.
But I’ll probally buy one of these too. I feel like it’s compulsory in a weird nagging way.
- Comment on New tech can see a CPU's transistors in action — terahertz radiation can potentially steal data as a chip is running 1 week ago:
Harnessing terahertz frequencies is relatively new.
- Comment on Wisconsin governor says ‘no’ to age checks for porn 2 weeks ago:
The tavern league is at it again…
Oh wait.
- Comment on Steam is adding support to show estimated FPS for your hardware before buying a game 2 weeks ago:
I suspect that will shake out with enough data. And I bet they can cross-estimate based on performance of various hardware configs across games too.
If they end up having a message on some games that says “not enough data yet.” Or similar, you’ll know they need a good sized volume to extrapolate average performance.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 publisher Take-Two have seemingly laid off their head of AI and several of the department's staffers 2 weeks ago:
I’m skeptical. Every single demo I have seen of LLM powered NPCs is garbage.
They would need really good memory. And be very locked down on hallucinations that would be misleading or otherwise nonsense in the context of the world. Like, they can’t reference they are in a game on accident. They can’t suggest you do an action you can’t. They can’t invent characters that are not “real” in the game. They need to be consistent over time. They can’t spoil the things they were prompted to avoid saying.
It’s quite a task, and no demos have depicted anything that feels like a step beyond hand made dialog and scripts. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I haven’t come across an example that seems to be heading in this direction. They are all just LLMs being prompted at the appropriate times. No additional infrastructure or tuning, etc.
All of the current issues with a chatbot not remembering what you said to it apply here too. And all of the things I listed get even more difficult if you let the user “talk” to the NPCs in any free form way. In other words, if you let the player role play or attempt to exploit the NPC that could potentially break the game and destroy the whole point of it all.
But as a concept, NPCs that can truly understand context and the player instead of just being dialog trees, it sounds awesome. I’m just very skeptical due to what I know about current LLMs and due to the overinflated hype that demos that raced to show off this concept carried.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 publisher Take-Two have seemingly laid off their head of AI and several of the department's staffers 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s fair.
I try to have conversations like one would IRL too often. Just a snarky joke. You know?
On the topic of words, it’s too bad we need to invent a term for the AI in, say, GTAV to clarify communication now. This guys team was around for 7 years, and no one was angry at AI 7 years ago. It seems like they only became the modern version of “the AI team” in more recent years as the bubble and hype grew. Sounds like they were emerging technologies and dev ops. Not the “use AI to generate posters to plaster on walls” team.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 publisher Take-Two have seemingly laid off their head of AI and several of the department's staffers 2 weeks ago:
I guess the npcs are gonna be pretty dumb then.
- Comment on Visa is bringing AI to credit card charge disputes 2 weeks ago:
Oh really?
I suggest this because it would be important how they instruct the AI models to be fair when making decisions. This is only valid when a generic LLM is used. But if it’s trained and the weights have bias against the customer, then prompt transparency wouldn’t help. We would need full model and training transparency and researchers who go through it all to see what’s up.
What I’m saying is, AI can be used to bias in favor of the credit card company in an even more ruthless way than current techniques.
- Comment on Visa is bringing AI to credit card charge disputes 2 weeks ago:
They should be required to publish the system prompts and any other prompting used.
- Comment on DLSS Multi-Frame Generation Is Now Easier To Enable On Steam Deck, And It Makes Gameplay Worse 3 weeks ago:
That one is a bit different because it’s intended to fill in hitches and small dips. It’s not magic. It won’t take you from 60 to 90 fps the whole time. That won’t be a nice experience.
In fact, people usually turn off the version valve made for SteamVR when using VRChat because VRChat almost never meets frame rate in most busy worlds. And it’s better to just have a lower frame rate instead of warped and interpolated frames. It’s counter intuitive but true.
- Comment on Introducing SteamVR 2.15 3 weeks ago:
Strange. That seems like it would be a good combination. I have friends who use Linux for VR regularly, and usually the issues described are around software compatibility. Not overall basic functionality.
- Comment on DLSS Multi-Frame Generation Is Now Easier To Enable On Steam Deck, And It Makes Gameplay Worse 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. Frame gen is trash if you can only hit like 28 FPS before turning it on. But if you are already over 60, it can be fine.
But there is always a latency penalty, and that’s why if you can’t make frame rate without it, you are just digging a deeper hole latency wise.
- Comment on Introducing SteamVR 2.15 3 weeks ago:
Is this before you enter a game? Or only in the game you tested?
If it’s like that in the dashboard, then it might be a distro thing.
- Comment on Intel and LG Display may have beaten Apple and Qualcomm with the best laptop battery life ever 3 weeks ago:
People don’t understand that Apple just never chose to compete in the $500 laptop range, until, well, this year…
- Comment on Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 people 3 weeks ago:
Actually, no, fewer people are having sex these days.
- Comment on You can’t replace the battery in Lego’s Smart Bricks — and many of its sensors aren’t available yet 5 weeks ago:
This all sounds like what I described. Yeah.
- Comment on You can’t replace the battery in Lego’s Smart Bricks — and many of its sensors aren’t available yet 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t the “Lego” part kinda just the batter casing with bumps on it, though?
Just for conversation sake. I don’t think disposable legos are cool or anything.
- Comment on Oh dear - ARC Raiders was logging your private Discord chats 1 month ago:
It’s easy to over-provision permissions. Just look at all the wide open S3 buckets people report on every few months.
- Comment on Downdetector and Speedtest have been sold for over $1 billion 1 month ago:
Thank you! It’s divination in my opinion.
- Comment on Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy 1 month ago:
It’s frustrating that they act like it’s private right now. The whole situation is typical absurd human behavior.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Update Indicates Positive Outlook in EU Battle Despite Roadblocks 1 month ago:
Why can’t SKG do those things? They all seem… oh. ROSS IS AN AMERICAN. I see.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Update Indicates Positive Outlook in EU Battle Despite Roadblocks 1 month ago:
What political affiliations would be used against them if they were just part of SKG?
- Comment on Steam is giving some players refunds for Ashes of Creation, which had the biggest MMO Kickstarter campaign ever, after leadership resignation and mass layoffs 2 months ago:
MMO games and Kickstarters don’t seem like a good idea. They never work out.
- Comment on Kiss goodbye to 8K as support from the TV industry 'dwindles' 2 months ago:
5k and 6k is where it’s at. Get hip.
- Comment on Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate 3 months ago:
- Comment on Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate 3 months ago:
This one’s all on Logitech.