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Games industry veteran Jeff Kaplan, the former Blizzard boss who is now making a new FPS called The Legend of California, has shared his thoughts on artificial intelligence in gaming.
Speaking to Lex Fridman, Kaplan said the technology, as it exists today, is “mostly a hot mess” when it comes to trying to integrate it into development pipelines.
He said AI may have a role to play in game development, but in its current state, he feels it’s “overconfident in what it tries to deliver.”
“But, I do think that games are a technology-driven art form and somebody much smarter than me once described it like, ‘Making a game is like making a movie if you had to invent the camera every time.’ Because you are inventing the technology of your specific game. I think AI can play a role in that and it would be silly to not look at it as an option,” he said.
Kaplan said he’s used popular AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and art-generation tools like Midjourney. For a non-artist like himself, Kaplan said it’s “fun” to fool around with Midjourney, but “it’s mostly weird and shitty.”
Kaplan also discussed what he called “moral
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