Square Enix "dabbled" with AI technology for Foamstars
Square Enix's upcoming team shooter Foamstars will have a small amount of AI art, the developer has said.
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Square Enix confirms Foamstars contains some AI generated art
Square Enix has confirmed its upcoming PlayStation shooter Foamstars contains some AI-generated art.
Valve's new guidelines will allow for more AI content in games
Valve has introduced new rules to abide by that will allow the company to add more games with AI content to its Steam gaming platform. To start with, it's updating its content survey form for developers so that they can give the company a description of how they use artificial intelligence in their games. If they used AI tools to generate art, code, sound or any other kind of content for their title, developers must ensure that they do not include anything illegal or anything that infringes on someone else's copyright. Valve says it will evaluate each game and check if the developer has submitted truthful information.
GTA 5 actor goes nuclear on AI company that made a voice chatbot of him: 'I'm not worried about being replaced... I just hate these f**kers'
Ned Luke, the actor whose roles include GTA 5's Michael De Santa, has gone off on an AI company that released an unlicensed voice chatbot based on the character, and succeeded in having the offending bot nuked from the internet (first spotted by PCGamesN).
All hail RT-X: The global project aimed at creating an AI mega brain for all robotkind
Like it or not, we're very much in the world of generative AI now. Massively complex neural networks trained on vast quantities of data, all so we can use it to make pictures of donkeys riding space rockets or tell us which churro coating is the best. I jest, of course, because large language models (LLMs) can be very useful but there's one area they've yet to be used in and that's robotics. Not anymore, as Google, the University of California, and a host of other labs around the world have started the RT-X project, with the aim of using AI to make an all-purpose 'brain' for robots.
This 'gamified' AI sex toy mimics MMO mechanics by requiring an 8-week grind
CES is all wrapped up, and while AI fatigue has hit our hardware writers (as the term 'AI' has slipped into the realm of buzzword purgatory) I'm about to make things a hell of a lot worse for everybody. As spotted by TheVerge, there's now an AI-powered sex toy that aims to treat people with premature ejaculation.
'No machine will ever replace his genius': The daughter of late comedian George Carlin speaks out against a ghoulish AI-generated comedy special, which was likely edited by real people anyway
Earlier this week, a new special from stand-up comedian George Carlin was posted to YouTube—which is concerning, seeing as he died in 2008.
Next-generation batteries may be coming faster than you think, thanks to an AI helping hand
Batteries. You could be forgiven for thinking that at some point battery development just sort of stopped, as Lithium-ion has been the preferred type of battery for our devices since its first commercial implementation all the way back in 1991, and work to find a better alternative has often seemed agonisingly slow. That may be about to change, however, as a collaboration between Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has started to lead to new candidates for battery materials (via The Verge), and it's all thanks to, you guessed it, AI.