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Elon Musk reveals 2026 launch for his AI game alongside Grok-made garbage

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Elon Musk reveals launch window for his "great" AI game in a post featuring Grok-made garbage

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We can chalk this one up right next to the hyperloop and just move on.
- I don't think that that'd be very analogous. He explicitly said that he wasn't going to do the Hyperloop himself, just proposed it as an idea that someone else could implement.
  That being said, you could dig up something that Musk had said that he would do that he didn't. considers FSD on Tesla vehicles is probably the prime example.
  
  Yeah he also went on to admit that hyperloop was a deliberate misdirect to draw funding away from other rail and other public transit projects, since, you know, he's the ceo of a car company
  
  His Boring Company made one and it’s just an underground Tesla taxi.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Convention_Center_Loop?wprov=sfti1#See_also
  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-26/elon-musk-las-vegas-loop-tunnel-has-construction-safety-issues?embedded-checkout=true
I’m downvoting this because I don't think Elon is important for gaming, and I think his game will be hot stinky dooky.
- He wants to be the head of the ministry of truth…
  If you care about gaming, you should do everything in your power to stop him.
Musk is known for promising the world and delivering the turd. So, I pass.
- *Delivering nothing.
  When he does deliver it's more often a gem than a turd, but he almost never delivers.
  Self Driving Cars? Nope.
  BFR? Nope.
  ITS? Nope.
  Starship is an death trap - I'd trust a 737MAX over ever getting on that turd.
  Tesla Roadster with thrusters (yes, he promised this) Nope.
I honestly can NOT wait for this to be delayed forever or we actually get to see a steaming pile of garbage it actually is. Then Musk will blame the woke left for it sucking somehow.
I seriously don't see a situation where it releases and it's even OK. If it does happen then I'll do something. Like say I was wrong or something else impossible on the internet.
- They'll tease some cool trailers, maybe a release date but mainly a preorder to get peoples money and THEN probably never release it.
There are some existing video games that incorporate LLMs or diffusion models. So in one sense, that's probably very doable.
But I think that it's probably going to be a slow process. There are probably going to be dead ends. I kind of suspect that early games, even if they're technically-novel, probably will suffer the same problems that past video games did before they matured. End of the day, a video game needs to be fun, and just throwing a new technology like a powerful graphics card or a fancy natural-language parser or whatever at it doesn't get you to that fun game. I think that it's going to take quite some years of game developers iterating to incorporate generative AI stuff well.
That being said, there are some things I'd like to see tried.
My guess is that it's probably possible to create to develop some sort of social-media-based video game that generates a choose-your-own-adventure style video game, remembering story branches generated by other users to take advantage of human-assisted creation, and trying to show "top" story forks. Like, make the bar low, use voting or link tracking or something to determine what story branches people like, and show those.
I'd like to see some kind of system for tracking world state that isn't purely based on having an LLM look at the entire preceding text for context. That's a pretty inefficient way to store world state, and implementing game logic at the LLM level is, I think, going to be problematic. Think of something like, oh, a game system like Inform/TADS/glulx-based interactive fiction. You have objects and properties and a game engine that handles tracking them and their interactions. But you try to get an LLM to generate text for those objects.
There are some games that use diffusion models, either statically or at runtime, to generate illustrations, where the number of permutations would be impractical for a human artist. The ones I've seen have been adult-oriented; I don't know how the field has developed, and there may well be a lot more out there now.
One thing that I think could be done today is to start using procedurally-generated voices. Generative AI can do pretty decent voice synthesis. Video games are good at doing procedurally-generated text, but if you do that, you don't get voice audio. That's not really a game genre, but it's a way in which one could provide some neat added functionality. I think that to really take advantage of this, there'd need to be a training corpus of text annotated with emotional information and such, but I've seen people doing this in a usable form for game mods.

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