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    Fully AI-Generated Games Will Arrive within 5-10 Years, NVIDIA CEO Suggests

    With luck, AI will make CEOs of large tech companies obsolete.
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    Core i9-14900KS Runs So Hot, Intel Is Allowing Delidded Systems from Select PC Makers with Full Warranty

    This smells like marketing spin. Are the CPUs really delidded by the System Integrators, or is Intel selling chips without lids to special customers? Seems the latter would be more economical and have less risk of damaging the chip during the wholesale delidding process.
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    stupid huge 57" Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 240hz monitor on "sale" for $1800

    Could you do me a favor and relay the actual chord width (i.e., side to side across the curve)? Is it really 52+ inches wide? Spec sheet says this: I was looking at one of these lately, but I'm not sure if it will fit the monitor space within the hutch that sits on top of my computer desk...
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    Running your own local AI.

    Not necessarily, and yes. I use computers to help me make decisions; I program the logic routines so I know what goes on inside the black box (or use software from proven, reliable sources). I do not think it wise to let computers make decisions on their own without all potential consequences...
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    Running your own local AI.

    The below is written with the metaphorical "you" ... When you ask an AI to analyze a data set, you expect to get a reliable result based on specified input parameters. If you ask the AI to analyze the same data set two days later using the exact same input parameters, you expect to get the...
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    Running your own local AI.

    There is the answer I sought. AI does not provide reliably repeatable output when using the same inputs. I feared as much that the AI creators would incorporate anthropomorphism in an effort to provide a plausible Touring test chat bot. The last example I provided, "give me a letter of the...
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    Running your own local AI.

    @Grimlakin ... instead of "generate" rephrase to "give" so that it doesn't think you want it to use a RNG. I appreciate both you and @Brian_B stepping in to run the experiment. The test I initially gave was meant to be an example of an open-ended question with no specific answer. It could...
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    Command & Conquer, The Saboteur, Sim City 3000, and Other Classic EA Games Arrive on Steam

    Yeah, all of them have been on GoG for a while. I have all but Saboteur, but that one is currently on sale (or was last I checked).
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    Running your own local AI.

    I have zero point no interest in running a local AI, but I do have this question for those that do. Is the AI output reliably reproducible? For example, if you ask it to "provide a number between one and ten." Will it give the same number every time?
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    Horizon Forbidden West Reveals PC Specs and Customization Options, including FoV Slider

    The GoG install files for Horizon: Zero Dawn - Complete Edition weigh in at around 71.4 GB, but I don't have it installed to know the unpacked disk size. So I suspect there's probably a little bloat going on with the Forbidden West edition. Yes, I'm aware they're two different games, but can...
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    Borderlands Studio Gearbox Software Could Be the Next to Leave the Clutches of Embracer Group as Part of a New Sell-Off Deal

    "Uhh ... I quit!" "No, you were fired." Sounds like Embracer Group is in a financial bind and needs to sell off assets to get back on even footing. As romantic of a notion as it may seem, and spin it however they may, studios are not necessarily escaping the clutches of their evil overlords...
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    GameScent Is an AI-Powered Device That Releases Scents During Gaming

    Can you imagine a staff meeting where integrating this hardware into a game is discussed: "So, solely for research purposes ... what do sweaty horse testicles smell like?"
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    Ubisoft Announces “Record High Player Engagement” for Skull and Bones as Season 1: Raging Tides Launches Worldwide

    Empty metrics are meaningless. Define "player engagement". Does install+uninstall = engagement?
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    GameScent Is an AI-Powered Device That Releases Scents During Gaming

    So now in your racing game if you pass over day-old skunk roadkill, do you get the authentic experience?
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    Apple Cancels Decade-Long Effort to Build an Electric Car

    Apple is now chasing trends rather than setting them. This will end poorly ...
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    Computer Science Courses No Longer Necessary Thanks to AI, NVIDIA CEO Says: “Everybody In the World Is Now a Programmer”

    Anyone want to take a bet whether Jensen would rather AI or skilled programmers prepare the next set of Nvidia GPU drivers?
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    Skull and Bones Reportedly Hasn’t Reached a 1M Playercount and Ubisoft Is Not Expecting to Recoup Its Roughly $200 Million Development Costs

    Interesting, because the video @DrezKill linked clearly shows one crew using grappling ropes to haul in an adjacent ship. I wonder if the scene quickly jumps to a stat screen when the ships make contact? [edit: no, I don't care enough to investigate any further; I stopped at "Ubisoft".] The...
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    “Nearly Unplayable”: HELLDIVERS 2 Warns of Critical Problems with AMD Radeon RX 7000 Series GPUs

    About the same time I stopped subscribing to the print edition. :cool:
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