Not directly related to Hytale but I thought this was a pretty good read. We already know most of this but it’s nice to hear the perspective of somebody that is actually in those investor meetings and hearing them talk about AI and replacing creators. Very disgusting stuff.
There’s a third path, where creatives can use tools for “real-time dreaming” and also the companies who try to replace workers with AI fail because they put out terrible products untouched by human creativity.
It looks like Simon is, incorrectly in my opinion, accepting the premise that’s being sold to the investors. i.e. That using AI will allow the replacement of human labor. Saying that it is obvious that this will happen in 2 years or 10 years.
In order to believe that, you would have to believe that AI is capable of replacing humans. I don’t think that is going to be the case.
It is simply not supported by evidence or any existing technology. At best, AI is a semi-useful tool for some tasks in programming or art. There is no use-case in either of these fields that AI performs better than or even equal to that of trained humans.
It’s far more likely that we’re in a world where a bunch of publicly traded game studios are about to throw themselves off a cliff chasing AI while getting rid of their talent. Studios that use actual humans (using whatever tools they choose to use) will always have an advantage over anything built primarily on AI output…