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What is your view on the use of AI in video games? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/indiegamedev@lemmy.world
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What are your thoughts on this? Specifically, could AI be used in the arts? Or only in coding? Or both/neither?

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[–] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Not a good sign of longevity of a game if AI is used in its development. AI code is known to be overly complex and what may be a simple bug fix turns into a patch that touches half the codebase causing more issues. Assuming the dev knows where the bug is occurring.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    You always have to wonder if they even have the skills to debug the thing in the first place. Having tested generated code or code suggestions, its just like the age old practice of copying code off a google search. You need the skills to at least understand what the code does and why its the right implementation for what you want to achieve.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    No different then copying questions from stack overflow.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    Exactly! It's not even that revolutionary in my eyes... heck that's effectively what it does most of the time.

    But nevertheless, it can write a ton of code and it will for the most part achieve what you want. It'll still need to be reviewed, trimmed down and optimized. To me it's just like a college essay. I can write 2000 words in a 20 minute blitz as I am sure any decent dev can write a ton of lines in the same amount of time. Is it going to be any good? Is it going to be acceptable for the level you are writing? A college paper of 2000 words I'll rewrite 4-5 times and keep maybe as much as a paragraph's worth of text from the original draft.

    Like what I just wrote above, I could probably condense into a few lines if I was trying to make it a ''professional'' statement rather than casual writing. There's these degrees of competence that I think LLMs haven't reached yet.

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