Black & White at 25 how Lionheads hairbrained, stonerpowered game design became the harbinger of modern AI
News Source : Eurogamer.net
News Summary
- Black & White, the first video game to use AI, turns 25 this year.
- The game was created by Peter Molyneux and Richard Evans, who went on to work at Google DeepMind.
- Black & White remains one of the most ambitious applications of AI in video games ever.
- But it is also associated with the technology's enshittifying and tragic implementations: the sometimes factually bogus "AI summaries" scraped from media outlets which now accompany Google search engine queries; or, more troublingly, in how the tech giant is facing a lawsuit for the alleged role its Gemini chatbot played in the death of a 36-year-old man from Florida.
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