Game Developers Are Getting Fed Up With Their Bosses’ AI Initiatives
2 months ago

Game Developers Are Getting Fed Up With Their Bosses’ AI Initiatives

Wired  

The video game industry has been in a troubled place for the past year, with studio closures and job security at the forefront of developer concerns. According to a new report from the organizers of the Game Developers Conference, 52 percent of devs surveyed said they worked at companies that were using generative AI on their games. “I deeply regret how naively I offered up my contributions.” Some 30 percent of the developers who responded to the survey said they felt negatively about AI, opposed to 18 percent last year; only 13 percent believed AI was having a positive impact on games, down from 21 percent in 2024. “No matter how you put it, generative AI isn’t a great replacement for real people and quality is going to be damaged,” another developer wrote in their response. For developers, AI has the potential to help with several tasks, respondents said, including coding, concept art, and 3D model generation, but when asked what uses they saw for AI in the industry, “the word used most frequently in their responses was ‘none,’” GDC organizers wrote.

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Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment

China Daily  

Artificial intelligence-aided robots sort products at a logistics center of a garment company in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, on Wednesday. The report said that 87 percent of the surveyed Chinese companies plan to ramp up AI investment in 2025 — a year of rapid change — while 58 percent of the interviewed business executives in China feel that their enterprises' AI …

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment

China Daily  

Artificial intelligence-aided robots sort products at a logistics center of a garment company in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, on Wednesday. NI LIFANG/FOR CHINA DAILY Chinese companies are accelerating the adoption of generative artificial intelligence, as the cutting-edge disruptive technology presents a significant opportunity for enterprises to boost operational efficiency, remain competitive and navigate the complex business landscape, according to a new …

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment

China Daily  

By Fan Feifei | China Daily | Updated: 2025-02-07 07:37 Artificial intelligence-aided robots sort products at a logistics center of a garment company in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, on Wednesday. NI LIFANG/FOR CHINA DAILY Chinese companies are accelerating the adoption of generative artificial intelligence, as the cutting-edge disruptive technology presents a significant opportunity for enterprises to boost operational efficiency, remain competitive …

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment

China Daily  

By Fan Feifei | China Daily | Updated: 2025-02-07 07:37 Artificial intelligence-aided robots sort products at a logistics center of a garment company in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, on Wednesday. NI LIFANG/FOR CHINA DAILY Chinese companies are accelerating the adoption of generative artificial intelligence, as the cutting-edge disruptive technology presents a significant opportunity for enterprises to boost operational efficiency, remain competitive …

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Chinese companies willing to ramp up AI investment

China Daily  

Artificial intelligence-aided robots sort products at a logistics center of a garment company in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, on Wednesday. NI LIFANG/FOR CHINA DAILY Chinese companies are accelerating the adoption of generative artificial intelligence, as the cutting-edge disruptive technology presents a significant opportunity for enterprises to boost operational efficiency, remain competitive and navigate the complex business landscape, according to a new …

In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work
2 months, 3 weeks ago

In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work

LA Times  

If 2023 was a year of wonder about artificial intelligence, 2024 was the year to try to get that wonder to do something useful without breaking the bank. There was a “shift from putting out models to actually building products,” said Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton University computer science professor and co-author of the new book “AI Snake Oil: What Artificial …

In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work
2 months, 3 weeks ago

In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work

The Hindu  

If 2023 was a year of wonder about artificial intelligence, 2024 was the year to try to get that wonder to do something useful without breaking the bank. There was a “shift from putting out models to actually building products,” said Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton University computer science professor and co-author of the new book “AI Snake Oil: What Artificial …

In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work
2 months, 3 weeks ago

In 2024, artificial intelligence was all about putting AI tools to work

Associated Press  

If 2023 was a year of wonder about artificial intelligence, 2024 was the year to try to get that wonder to do something useful without breaking the bank. There was a “shift from putting out models to actually building products,” said Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton University computer science professor and co-author of the new book “AI Snake Oil: What Artificial …

New AI entertainment studio gets backing from Peter Chernin, Andreessen Horowitz
4 months ago

New AI entertainment studio gets backing from Peter Chernin, Andreessen Horowitz

Live Mint  

Veteran media executive Peter Chernin and tech investor Andreessen Horowitz are backing a new studio that will primarily use generative artificial intelligence to make shows and movies, embracing a new technology that traditional Hollywood players are venturing into cautiously. Unlike traditional studios that are starting to experiment with generative AI for storyboarding or some visual effects, Promise is creating an …

Can AI make video games more immersive? Some studios turn to AI-fueled NPCs for more interaction
6 months ago

Can AI make video games more immersive? Some studios turn to AI-fueled NPCs for more interaction

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We believe generative AI can …

Video game performers are on strike — and it keeps coming back to AI : Consider This from NPR : NPR
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Video game performers are on strike — and it keeps coming back to AI : Consider This from NPR : NPR

NPR  

Video game performers are on strike — and AI is the sticking point Enlarge this image toggle caption James Mastromarino/Square Enix James Mastromarino/Square Enix If you're not entrenched in the world of video games, you might not realize how much real actors have to do with modern gaming. Cote says performers are seeking things like clearer safety and protection measures …

AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry
8 months ago

AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry

Wired  

When Noah saw the email, a wave of anxiety hit. It was spring 2023, and the Activision artist was reading a message from the company's then chief technology officer, Michael Vance, about how artificial intelligence was “top of mind” at the video game publisher. All the while, generative AI systems built by OpenAI and its competitors have been seeping into …

More firms embracing generative AI tools
9 months, 3 weeks ago

More firms embracing generative AI tools

China Daily  

Visitors check out large language models during a high-tech expo in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on May 23. About 85 percent of Chinese business leaders plan to increase investments in generative artificial intelligence in 2024, as AI and other disruptive technologies evolve to be more human-centric and drive greater capabilities for people to amplify their potential and reinvent commerce, according to …

Insider Q&A: CIA’s chief technologist’s cautious embrace of generative AI
10 months ago

Insider Q&A: CIA’s chief technologist’s cautious embrace of generative AI

Associated Press  

Knowledge advantage can save lives, win wars and avert disaster. A: When these generative AI systems “hallucinate,” they can sometimes behave like your drunk friend at a bar who can say something that pushes you outside your normal conceptual boundary and sparks out-of-the box thinking. Q: The only current use of a large-language model at enterprise scale I’m aware of …

Intel exec on bringing artificial intelligence into the workplace
10 months, 1 week ago

Intel exec on bringing artificial intelligence into the workplace

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Artificial intelligence is just about everywhere you look these days — including the workplace. Christy Pambianchi, chief people officer at Intel, recently spoke with The Associated Press about how the semiconductor chip maker is expanding AI education programming beyond the company’s walls — as well as best practices around implementing AI in a workforce from an HR …

BCG study shows 70% users excited about GenAI at work, but 43% positive about its impact on daily life
10 months, 3 weeks ago

BCG study shows 70% users excited about GenAI at work, but 43% positive about its impact on daily life

The Hindu  

A study published on April 29 by the Boston Consulting Group titled ‘Consumers Know More About AI than Business Leaders Think,’ has shared that consumer understanding and enthusiasm around artificial intelligence is higher than expected. Based on a survey conducted across 21 countries and 21,000 respondents, the research also answered questions around the usage of AI in the workplace. “While …

No One Actually Knows How AI Will Affect Jobs
11 months, 2 weeks ago

No One Actually Knows How AI Will Affect Jobs

Wired  

Forget artificial intelligence breaking free of human control and taking over the world. A far more pressing concern is how today’s generative AI tools will transform the labor market. Daly, a labor market economist by training, is especially interested in how generative AI might change the labor market picture. One person I talked to, her company invested in generative AI …

Some workers turning AI challenge into advantage
1 year, 1 month ago

Some workers turning AI challenge into advantage

China Daily  

The recently released artificial intelligence model Sora, created by research organization OpenAI, has caused a sensation in the tech sector with its ability to generate videos of up to a minute in length based on brief text instructions. Some industry insiders said that Sora will bring revolutionary changes to content creation as well as the entertainment and education industries, while …

Demystifying the buzz around Generative AI
1 year, 1 month ago

Demystifying the buzz around Generative AI

Hindustan Times  

There has been a great deal of discussion on generative Artificial Intelligence and its implications. Generative is the fun bit in which we are creating new content, the computer has not necessarily seen it and is able to synthesise it and give us new things. This is quite sophisticated and rightfully created a sensation as it could do a host …

AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs. Few Industries Are Immune.
1 year, 1 month ago

AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs. Few Industries Are Immune.

Live Mint  

Decades after automation began taking and transforming manufacturing jobs, artificial intelligence is coming for the higher-ups in the corporate office. The firm estimates the full tally of AI-related job cuts is likely higher, since many companies haven’t explicitly linked cuts to AI adoption in layoff announcements. View Full Image Graphic: WSJ Nearly two-thirds of those white-collar workers said their productivity …

Get Ready for the Great AI Disappointment
1 year, 2 months ago

Get Ready for the Great AI Disappointment

Wired  

In the decades to come, 2023 may be remembered as the year of generative AI hype, where ChatGPT became arguably the fastest-spreading new technology in human history and expectations of AI-powered riches became commonplace. More and more evidence will emerge that generative AI and large language models provide false information and are prone to hallucination—where an AI simply makes stuff …

AI to diversity: What to expect at the workplace this year
1 year, 2 months ago

AI to diversity: What to expect at the workplace this year

Live Mint  

The year 2023 saw several changes to the workplace. Trends like “Bare Minimum Mondays” and “Coffee Badging”, screamed that employees want greater autonomy and flexibility at work, highlighting an increased focus on work-life balance. “The power of new-age tech will be leveraged across HR for analysing and anticipating hot-spots or pain-points of employees, helping managers make informed decisions around growth …

AI can create more jobs than it potentially eliminates: Tech Mahindra's outgoing CEO
1 year, 3 months ago

AI can create more jobs than it potentially eliminates: Tech Mahindra's outgoing CEO

The Hindu  

Generative AI technology can create more jobs than it is expected to eliminate, Tech Mahindra's outgoing CEO said, even as its ability to wreck the job market has been discussed widely on social media sites. While some top industry executives have discussed the potential loss of around a third of jobs due to the impact of the technology, Mr. Gurnani, …

Column: This was the year of AI. Next year is when you should worry about your job
1 year, 3 months ago

Column: This was the year of AI. Next year is when you should worry about your job

LA Times  

The biggest story in tech this year was, without a doubt, the explosive ascent of AI. See, we’re nearing the end of the Year of Generative AI, and few of the companies working in the space have pieced together a promising way to turn the hype into profits. In October, the Wall Street Journal ran a report headlined “Big Tech …

Can AI help employees strike a better work-life balance?
1 year, 4 months ago

Can AI help employees strike a better work-life balance?

Live Mint  

The increasing reliance of companies on generative artificial intelligence tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT is the cause of sleepless nights for several employees, as revealed by PwC’s annual global workforce survey in June 2023. “This has not only saved us time but also freed up our highly skilled employees to dedicate their energy to more creative and strategic aspects of the …

AI may revolutionize but not necessarily cheapen the price of GTA 6, Says Take Two's CEO Strauss Zelnick
1 year, 4 months ago

AI may revolutionize but not necessarily cheapen the price of GTA 6, Says Take Two's CEO Strauss Zelnick

Hindustan Times  

Take Two's CEO, Strauss Zelnick, shared insights at the Paley International Council Summit on how the integration of generative AI could enhance games like the highly anticipated GTA 6. GTA 6 Fandmade Poster With the gaming community buzzing after Rockstar's Sam Houser announced the release of the GTA 6 reveal trailer on December 6, Zelnick's remarks added fuel to the …

Generative AI will change the way we develop games: Krafton India CEO
1 year, 4 months ago

Generative AI will change the way we develop games: Krafton India CEO

The Hindu  

Generative AI will change the way we develop video games. “It can be used to create voice actors, find bugs and create content,” Sean Hyunil Sohn, CEO of Krafton India told The Hindu. “We are also looking to invest in generative AI firms because they’ve started to change the ways we are making games,” said Sohn. On PC gaming, he …

Tech mood not as bad as in 2008; bet on strong growth: HCL Tech CEO
1 year, 5 months ago

Tech mood not as bad as in 2008; bet on strong growth: HCL Tech CEO

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI : On Thursday, HCL Technologies Ltd beat Street estimates to report a better-than-expected September quarter. In an interview, C Vijayakumar, managing director and chief executive of HCL Technologies, said the company has slashed its FY24 guidance despite this result due to a weak overall first half of this fiscal. He added that the overall industry sentiment is not …

In Hollywood writers’ battle against AI, humans win (for now)
1 year, 5 months ago

In Hollywood writers’ battle against AI, humans win (for now)

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — After a 148-day strike, Hollywood screenwriters secured significant guardrails against the use of artificial intelligence in one of the first major labor battles over generative AI in the workplace. “I hope it will be a model for a lot of other content-creation industries,” said Tom Davenport, a professor of information technology at Babson College and author of …

Column: The writers’ strike was the first workplace battle between humans and AI. The humans won
1 year, 6 months ago

Column: The writers’ strike was the first workplace battle between humans and AI. The humans won

LA Times  

After studios flatly refused to agree not to produce AI-generated scripts, members of the Writers Guild of America realized the danger and drew a line in the sand. And though there are many reasons that the union ultimately won out — smart organizing and a memeable picket line, strong allyship from SAG-AFTRA, and tactical blunders by the studio execs among …

Generative AI and its interplay with law
1 year, 6 months ago

Generative AI and its interplay with law

Live Mint  

Generative artificial intelligence has redefined the standards of artificial intelligence, revolutionising sectors, industries, driving innovation and transforming our everyday work and play. Generative AI uses algorithms to produce novel textual, audio and visual content by responding to user cues and new audio, visual and textual media based on user prompts. Though generative AI, or AI, broadly delivers "human-like intelligence" at …

AI’s disruptive economic impact, an India check
1 year, 8 months ago

AI’s disruptive economic impact, an India check

The Hindu  

Little did we know that beyond the automated factory machines, self-driving cars, and robocops, Artificial Intelligence would one day crash into our lives, authoring poems, tipping us with pickup lines, and passing the toughest examinations. Only 2% of experts believed that AI would not significantly impact per capita GDP; this included Professor Nicholas Bloom of Stanford, who pointed out historical …

Generative AI can give people 'superpowers', add $4.4 trillion annually to global economy
1 year, 9 months ago

Generative AI can give people 'superpowers', add $4.4 trillion annually to global economy

Firstpost  

A recent report from McKinsey Global Institute has stated that generative artificial intelligence is projected to contribute up to $4.4 trillion annually to the global economy. Generative AI includes chatbots like ChatGPT, Google Bard, which are capable of generating text in response to prompts, and have the potential to significantly increase productivity by automating 60 per cent to 70 per …

Generative AI will require us to recalibrate how we do our work
1 year, 10 months ago

Generative AI will require us to recalibrate how we do our work

Live Mint  

I was struck by a remarkable statement by software engineer Kent Beck, author of Extreme Programming. Copy and Jasper help create great marketing material, Stable Diffusion and Dall-E2 create amazing images for artists and designers, Jukebox help create ad jingles and GitHub Copilot writes solid code. AI won’t create superlative pieces of work, at least not yet, and will require …

Nation to witness quick AI expansion, experts say
1 year, 11 months ago

Nation to witness quick AI expansion, experts say

China Daily  

Tech heavyweights step up development efforts as concerns voiced over new problems Artificial intelligence technology is expected to witness speedy growth in China and inject fresh momentum into a new round of industrial development, experts said. Pan Helin, co-director of the Digital Economy and Financial Innovation Research Center at Zhejiang University's International Business School, said, "Compared with its foreign counterparts, …

Will companies’ use of generative AI affect job intake? - The Hindu
1 year, 11 months ago

Will companies’ use of generative AI affect job intake? - The Hindu

The Hindu  

AI has been talked of for decades now. Let’s take a look at what developments have taken place in recent weeks in the context of AI. First off, Bloomberg wrote about a Chinese company in the The $3-billion Bluefocus Intelligent Communications Group Co., one of China’s best-known media firms, haS said in an internal memo that it plans to replace …

Why Generative AI is a house divided
1 year, 11 months ago

Why Generative AI is a house divided

Live Mint  

Generative AI has polarized artificial intelligence experts with some calling for a six-month moratorium on building new systems and others arguing against the idea on the grounds that the benefits of AI far outweigh perceived risks. But the exponential progress in generative AI models that are used to create new content appears to have alarmed many, ever since the launch …

From CEOs to coders, employees experiment with new AI programs
2 years, 1 month ago

From CEOs to coders, employees experiment with new AI programs

Live Mint  

Shortly after the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November, Jeff Maggioncalda, the CEO of online education company Coursera Inc., jumped into the technology to see if it could save him time. Around the world, business people across industries including architecture, software and entertainment are testing out tech’s new frontier: so-called generative AI programs that produce writing, images and art much …

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