Well A.I is just a tool it can also be used against A.I and surveilance technology. Potentually very disruptive tool at that which may be used against big tech.
That’s wildly optimistic. If I recall correctly, early studies are showing the 51% of participants who saw any improvement, reported an average of a 20% improvement.
Yes the value is wildly optimistic to match the expectations driven by all the hype from these companies pushing their LLM services.
Even granting that optimism, since 5% of all software projects are on time and within budget, we may look forward to a whopping leap to 7.5 out of every hundred software projects arriving on time and under budget, in a best case scenario.
The hard truth no one wants to talk about is that the average software development team is awful.
The average software development team doesn’t understand how to deliver high quality maintainable solitions on a reasonable timeline.
You're oversimplifying things here there are a lot more variables that influence success in software projects. The company you work for might have oversold the project, the client might only have vague understanding of what they really want, project management may fail to keep the costs, developers or timeline in check, client or the company you work for might have high employee turnover causing delays as new employees need proper induction to the project, the initial tech stack may become deprecated or obsolete mid-way the project, etc
Musk has his loyal fanbase who have been impressed by his achievements with Paypal, Tesla and SpaceX.
Honestly he seemed all right before 2020's but after that he's slowly become more and more radicalized.
Fortunately his behaviour is alienating a lot of his fanbase, unfortunately they're getting replaced by more far right fans.
If Musk is ready to lie about his gaming achievements then can we really trust anything that comes out from his mouth.
I mean who cares if Musk is bad at POE2 but the fact that he goes to such lengths to lie about how good he is in a videogame tells a lot about his character and personality.
Personally I've only ever played POE solo and I think the game holds very well against many premium ARPG titles. When the game reaches its EOL as live service it would be very wastefull for GGG to just drop the game instead of turning it in to a paid standalone title that people can buy and play for as long as they want.
Solo Self-Found (SSF) is a thing in Path of exile and usually creating a standalone version like this requires some modifications to the game anyways for it to even run. For example developers behind Warhammer 40000: Inquisitor patched their game so that it can be played offline and even allows players to access old seasonal content (allows picking season when creating new character).
Maybe EU should just take a page from US playbook and ban these services due to national security concerns.
I mean Musk is clearly trying to influence European politics with fake news, half truths and downright lies. Not all that different from Kremlins troll factories.
What eventually kills these platforms is "death by thousand cuts". Enshitification, controversies, legal problems will alienate users bit by bit. Competing services will then make some people visit less and less until they stop coming at all.
These platforms are competing for peoples attention/time which is finite resource.
Honestly people are getting distracted here. Now lets say A.I makes developers 50% more productive thats a huge boost for smaller companies with only handful of developers.
Many companies are only thinking about reducing costs for themselves but at the same time they're freeing up a lot of talent for new and old competitors.
Here's some food for thought:
Open source developers may use A.I to develop better software to close gap between paid alternatives. (Blender, Gimp, Krita, Linux distributions, mastodon, lemmy, pixelfed)
Many LLM's can already be ran freely and locally. These will only get better as technology progresses. This can make selling/profiting from A.I services a lot harder
A.I may be used to block ads or obfuscate (create bunch of fake data) user data that is sold to advertisers.
Some media sites are already using A.I to write articles. Whats the point when users may just use chatbot to get all the information without ever engaging with the source.
These are just few that come to mind. but the unkowns with this are quite terrifying.
While some gamers are getting older the number of players does keep increasing with newer generations like alpha picking up controllers. Many millenials and older zoomers may have more disposable income but also much less time to play, backlogs of hundreds if not thousands of games and bunch of good old games they just keep coming back to.
However gaming doesnt exist in a bubble. Social media platforms, streaming services are also competing for our attention. The whole entertainment market is so saturated that only ways to increase profits is to enshittify or win marketshare from competition.
Well diversity has received a ton more spotlight and discussion for past 10 years with many developers and games being "canceled" for their views, opinions and many games have been heavily criticized for not being diverse enough or containing elements that are offensive for group a, b or c.
Now the pendulum is swinging back with those canceled or holding more conservative or religious opinions banding together to crusade against whatever they consider woke.
Result is a minefield where your game can be attacked if its not woke enough or too woke resulting in bunch of bad press.
Probably most hours I've spend where with Conquer Online back in the days before mysteryboxes where introduced. After that probably puzzle and dragons.
Luckily after those games I learned to question my time spent in these games. (Basically just one day after grinding tower of gods for umpteenth time to spend my 1k stamina/energy, I asked myself wtf am I doing with my life, was I having fun?)
After that my most played games have been Grim dawn, Sacred2, Monster hunter world, No Man sky, Incredible adventures of van helsing then various 2d fighters like Blazblue, undernight inbirth and Granblue fantasy versus that I play on locals.
The title is a bit missleading considering that the actual article mentions a lot other problems that plagued the development.
Project 8 faced both progress and challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic made team stability difficult, but some quality improvements were achieved. However, critical issues persisted, causing delays and budget increases. The latest review revealed unresolved problems needing more time and money, along with revised sales forecasts, raising doubts about the project's profitability.
-- TLDR by Microsoft copilot
While there's still demand for "narrative-driven story-rich games" one should keep realistic expectations. For this genre I feel smaller scope and indie developers work much better.
Valtaosa julkaistuista indie-peleistä tuskin pääsee edes tuhannen kappaleen myyntiin joten sikäli 20 000 kappaletta näin lyhyessä ajassa on melko hyvin tuollaiselle pelille. Eiköhän myyntejä tule myös lisää kun peli laitetaan alennukseen, saa päivityksiä tai joku satunnainen some-vaikuttaja antaa pelille lisää näkyvyyttä.
Hyvällä lykyllä voivat rahoittaa tällä myös seuraavan pelin kehityksen.
Agressiivinen natsi ja fasisti leimakirveen käyttö johtaa näiden käsitteiden inflaatioon jolloin niiden alkuperäinen merkitys hämärtyy ja niitä käytetään kuvaamaan lähes kaikkea epämiellyttävää tai vastenmielistä.
Trump on tunnettu huijari eiköhän tämä ole suurimmalle osalle selvää. Hänen vaalivointtonsa tosin kertoo kuinka vieraantuneita monet (erityisesti nuoret miehet) ovat vasemmistopolitiikasta ja kuinka paljon ihmiset haluaa muutosta (protestiäänet). Trumpin tavoitehan on lähinnä pönkittaa omaa egoaan ja rikastuttaa itseään sekä lähipiiriään.
Populistien valheita vastaan toivoisinkin jotain tehokkaampia keinoja, ehkä saadaan tekoäly suorittamaan faktantarkistuksia lennossa tai jotain twitterin community note tyylistä järjestelmää laajempaan käyttöön. Nyt tuntuu että ollaan tilanteessa missä poliitiikot ja media voi puhua vaikka mitä paskaa ilman sen suurempia seurauksia.
Kun nyt katsoi tuon Keskisarjan itsenäisyyspäivä puheen youtubesta, niin melko maltillinen ja puhe joka polarisoinnin sijaan kannusti yhtenäisyyteen. Mukana oli myös epäsuorasti pientä paheksuntaa henkilöitä kohtaan jotka osallistuvat kulkueeseen kantaen natsi-symboleita yms. lisäten vielä, että myös nämä ihmiset on ihmisiä.
Tämä siis jos käyttää positiivista tulkintaa, negatiivisella tulkinnalla voi varmasti tulla ihan eri lopputulokseen ja löytää rivien välistä ties mitä piiloviestintää. Toki Keskisarjan viestintä ja käytös on yleisesti melko värikästä ja poliittisesti epäkorrektia mutta se puree aika moneen nykypäivänä halusi sitä tai ei.
Voin olla toki väärässä, mutta mielestäni tälläiselle maltillisemmalle ja yhtenäisyyttä edistivälle viestinnälle on kyllä nykypäivänä tarvetta erityisesti jos esittäjällä on äänitorvi jota myös äärioikeisto tai äärivasemmisto kuuntelee. Keskisarjalla löytynee varmaan laaja kirjo vanhempia puheita tai kirjoituksia joista löytyy enemmän paheksuttavaa.
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Honestly the fact how bad user experience X is for unregistered users should be reason enough to ban links to X.