There’s a future where you and your graphics card decide what a game looks like, not the developers [Video]

It’s not far away, you know. That promised land of photorealistic gaming. That long sought after holy grail of game graphics. But it’s not going to be something created by auteur game developers, or even the mad geniuses behind the game engines of the future. No, as with everything in our imminent future, it will be generated by AI.

Wait! Before you click away because of the merest mention of an AI generated gaming future—I know, I know, I’m largely generative AI fatigued, too—this is actually potentially super exciting when it comes to actually having games that look kinda real.

If your algorithm looks anything like mine (and what a weird turn of phrase that is) then you’ll have been seeing AI-generated gaming videos all over TikTok and YouTube, where traditional game capture is fed through a video-to-video generator and out the other end comes some seriously uncanny valley vids.

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