I'm not even anything resembling an expert in game dev or AI and I know this is beyond absolute nonsense It's like saying Oregon Trail was the first multiplayer game because there are multiple player characters
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It feels like they googled "what is the earliest use of AI in games" and completely uncritically included the genAI summary. With absolutely zero understanding that game-logic AI and LLM generative AI are entirely different things.
jul 29, 2025, 9:32 am • 24 3 • view
To be fair "enemy AI" is a term of art here. But the kind of logic used to drive enemy behavior in Pac-Man is completely different than modern AI — for one, Pac-Man enemy AI is fully understandable while LLMs are not
jul 29, 2025, 4:01 am • 14 0 • view
it's a distinction that anyone who is even passingly familiar with the field should notice and that should jump out at them, which suggests that literally no one who read this paragraph throughout the editorial process knows anything about the subject matter
jul 29, 2025, 4:03 am • 25 0 • view
NYT delenda est, man
jul 29, 2025, 4:04 am • 7 0 • view
dude it is multiplayer, everyone just died of dysentery before the game could connect
jul 29, 2025, 3:25 am • 11 0 • view