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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked video shows PlayStation toying with Aloy from Horizon as an AI chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing is, I really don’t see how that’d work for any useful scenario. Even in this very limited case natural language processing and response generation is definitely off-loaded to a remote server farm, and isn’t running on the console. TTS for a single characters voice could - but likely isn’t - be done on the hardware, but as I mentioned elsewhere, the voice models for modern text-to-speech synthesis are very, very large. Typically gigabytes of data - per voice. Completely unrealistic for any meaningful game.

  Even if all those trained models existed (they don’t), I doubt any consumer would be amused by a multi-terabyte download.

  Even as it is, the response latency is hilariously bad. I players having to wait seconds for each NPC response would fly as well as a lead brick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked video shows PlayStation toying with Aloy from Horizon as an AI chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting point, although I don’t see how you’d manage to run modern TTS (the models can get very large, and that’s per voice; as an example Parler-TTS’s mini model is 800Mb, the HQ model is 2.3Gb - for one voice) + a LLM for content synthesis on any personal hardware, console or not. The storage requirements alone would make that grossly infeasible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked video shows PlayStation toying with Aloy from Horizon as an AI chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Does anybody actually want that, ever?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Atomfall Hands-On Preview: Rebellion’s New IP is More Than Just British Fallout - WGB article⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree, but my problem is the ways in which is clearly isn’t Fallout. Specifically, FO has some deep lore that justifies the existence, mannerisms and internecine postures of the various factions, but here it’s apparently just… Waves of nutters take the first opportunity to move into a radiological quarantine zone and set up shop as conveniently thematic gangs for… reasons.

  “Just think about it lads! Not only can we live in a place that’ll kill us on the cellular level, but we can wear theatrical facepaint - don’t ask where we’re getting a steady supply of that - like a 24/7 Kiss revival concert! It’ll be awesome! There’ll be matching top hats for everyone. Millinery is a real growth industry in here. Mind the mercury.”

  But other than that, it looks fun enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s transactional approach to diplomacy is a driving force on the world stage⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s true. It’s driving us all straight into the ground at velocities more typically associated with railgun development or orbital mechanics.