I actually had to explain to someone recently that the AI that tells enemies in video games how to react to player inputs is NOT genAI and has existed for literal decades. they genuinely had no idea there was a difference. this shit has poisoned the well so bad.
Poisoning the well was the only way they could get this far with the scam.
It's why I've drifted towards what the Japanese call it: Computer-controlled player, or CPU, or COM.
One leads to, arguably, better gameplay. The other one leads to the Butlerian Jihad. They are different things!
To me, they deliberately chose "AI" to create the confusion, I'm pretty sure. Mixing AI and GenAI as a way to lead people to think that those who are against GenAI are against every kind of AI. I despite them so much I cannot believe that's it not a planned thing.
It could be calculated like that, but also "Artificial Intelligence" has just been the hot marketing term for anything computery for decades. Like, I don't think when game developers call procedurally generated levels "AI" they're attempting to confuse anything.
Like, it was already like at least a dozen non-overlapping software concepts even before large language models.
Oh they absolutely did that. Plus, because of the hype, many companies then proceeded to rename their existing features and algorithms AI as well, increasing the deliberate confusion.
y'all have no idea how frustrating it's been feeling like I need to walk on eggshells when talking about certain OCs of mine who are born from AI *in-universe* and are integral to the story I've been developing for more than 20 years... 😑
I think the same thing happened/ IS happening with Vocaloids; folks pointing to Miku and saying she’s an AI figurehead or success story despite the fact she’s only one narratively.
It absolutely SUCKS! I hate it, amd I’m spitefully correcting anyone who tries to draw correlations between the fictional instances of AI and the fake branding scheme thats using the term to make a quick buck!
Robots and AI in fiction are such a powerful narrative tool. A kind of person who's only valued for their function, for what they can do, is a metaphor with a lot to say a life in the work force. They represent us, not some language model.
Data from star trek for example is a character with a lot to say about the human condition, and absolutely nothing to say about random technologies marketed as "AI" some forty years after he was conceived.
Yeah, "AI" is a term that's been used for a lot of stuff. It goes the other way too. People will point to the good uses of AI, missing that clearly the AI in question is not the one whose sole function is to turn information into less reliable information.
Feel that. It's just one more reason I prefer refering to it as "behavior" nowadays. I guess in some sense, "AI" was always a misnomer there (and people did shame me for using it in the past), but nowadays it feels especially bad to refer to it as "AI" due to the negative conotations.
Sometimes ago I was searching for documentation and tips about programming enemy AIs for a boomer shooter game development project and holy crap it's hard to find anything now You couple the fact that search engines have all gone to shit with the fact that the word "AI" became this...
Input reading in fighters have plagued many of us since the dawn of Mortal Kombat.
Also makes it even more difficult for laid-off devs if they happen to be programmers with a specialization in enemy and/or NPC AI. The market is slim as it is, but also choked by openings for jobs related to slop machines.
This is probably part of the reason they dubbed it AI to cause confusion