I'm sceptical about AI programming Pacman, but it's fairly obvious that the New York Times is leaning into AI journalism ..

Oh god, it only gets worse the further down the article you go.

ethics experts remain focused on questions of how prepared the industry is for sentient characters [emphasis mine]

😐

It's always such a red flag in news articles when they mention vague "experts" but don't explain who they are. The Guardian is so bad for it, even though they're the most tolerable of the mainstream British options. A lot of the age verification stuff was a vague "experts say this will help" but if you dig deeper the experts end up being someone who's went from working as an MP to being appointed to some directorship of a charity, and not someone with technical skills that could explain the cybersecurity issues, easy circumventing via VPN etc.

Yeah but will a ghost from pac-man tell me it loves me and get me to divorce my wife???*

*yes, actually. Pinky is moving in next month

I predicted a year or two ago that at some point calculators will be referred to as AI.

We're getting ever closer...

It’s a cheaper way to make games, but it is going to cost you 5,000 times more to run a game.

They're doing pay later in games. xD

in other media:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/is-ai-coming-for-video-games-next/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-games-faster-cheaper-better-201128605.html
https://futurism.com/demo-video-game-characters-panic-code-matrix

I like how the article evolves from demo video game to apocalypse.

Nuance doesn't put food on the table in the third yacht.

Use the AI to replace project managers, scrum Masters, and 99% of the management. Keep the talent. If you work at a video game development company and you can't actively contribute to the game, seems like AI could do your job and you can go pull yourself up by your bootstraps find different work.

"shall we ask an expert?"

"Nah lets just make some shit up"

wait this isn't onion?

I have no doubt this is what the CEOs think and that they will try, but fat chance lmao

And the authors name was Claude Anthropic.

Honestly a more accurate comparison to how LLMs work than what we usually hear, ie: "God".