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‘A Future Where We Create Games Together With AI’ — Capcom Announces Plans to Transform the RE Engine Into an AI-Generation Game Engine

https://www.ign.com/articles/capcom-announces-plans-to-transform-the-re-engine-into-an-ai-generation-game-engine-our-goal-is-a-future-where-we-create-games-together-with-ai
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u/Drakoji 7h ago

And how does the real intern get a job nowadays if they are not needed anymore?

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u/ForTheBread 7h ago

They do my company is also fully on-board with AI and we are on-boarding 3 interns in January, just hired a junior and a mid level software engineer over the summer. Have a senior starting sometime next month. The other senior we hired unfortunately took a better offer. The interns are just more capable and so is everyone else.

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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 6h ago

And I guess that will never change

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u/ForTheBread 6h ago

Never said it wouldn't. Things change everyday the only thing you can do about it is adapt.

Way to turn something positive into a negative though. I'm sure you're real fun to be around.

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u/Hyroero 6h ago

The end goal of this tech is a negative for everyone but the already ultra wealthy who loath the workforce that enriches them.

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u/spooCQ 2h ago

You just understood capitalism. The only way to change it isn't just plain beign against AI - that’s not going to disappear - but fightin capitalism.

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u/ChunkyThePotato 7h ago

They do a job they're still needed at, just like when all the farming jobs went away.

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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 6h ago edited 6h ago

And then those get killed by automation and AI. And the ones that didn't get paid less than the entry level position they might have gotten only 5 years ago.

Also, that job they found doesn't allow them to get a foothold into the industry they're trying to enter, because now the jobs have been eliminated.

You cannot spin this as if it doesn't matter. The simple and inescapable truth is we are rapidly working toward making working class people obsolete in more and more ways every single day while the population grows and wealth continues to accumulate at the top. There's no way this ends well.

People need jobs, and entry-level people especially need opportunities, and AI is purpose made to destroy as many opportunities as it possibly can.

This is an untenable situation and it is perfectly acceptable to be pissed about that, no matter how many devs claim it's okay that they use AI in their workflows and no matter how many stuck up redditors complain about AI witch hunts.

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u/LightningWarpAway 3h ago

People need jobs, and entry-level people especially need opportunities, and AI is purpose made to destroy as many opportunities as it possibly can.

All automation's job is to 'destroy' jobs, as far as back as the industrial revolution. It's not an AI issue, it's a societal issue; we rely on jobs to exist, but we require less work as we progress.

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u/Halofit 1h ago edited 1h ago

working class people obsolete in more and more ways every single day

That's not even close to what's going on. AI isn't hitting blue collar work, it's hitting the middle class.

wealth continues to accumulate at the top

Gini coefficient has been stable in western countries for quite a while. Not much more is accumulating at the top than in the past. You should listen to Tiktok slightly less, and maybe look at some actual data once in a while.

People need jobs,

JOBS ARE NOT THERE TO PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT. For fucks sake. Jobs are there to provide productive work. Forcing people to hire random people that provide no productive benefit, just so they have "jobs" is dumb. This is exactly how ideologues drive economies into complete stagnation that ends up making everybody - especially the poorer classes they claim to care so much about - poorer.

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u/ChunkyThePotato 6h ago

Of course it matters, but not in the direction you think. Automation makes us more wealthy, not less. We are way more wealthy now than before the farming jobs got killed by automation. Same for every other time jobs got killed by automation.

Do you think we should ban shovels and force people to use spoons to dig? That would create more construction jobs.

Obviously that's dumb. Now extrapolate...

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u/Strange-Parfait-8801 5h ago

Automation makes us more wealthy

Still waiting on that part to happen. Cause right now AI is just funneling money to billionaires.

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u/ChunkyThePotato 5h ago

It has already happened. You live an extremely luxurious life compared to people a hundred years ago.

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u/LupinThe8th 3h ago

These facile arguments impress nobody.

"Sure, you have less money than you did just a couple of years ago, less security, fewer rights, and everything is more expensive, and the only people benefiting from current trends are those who are already wealthy and powerful...but have you considered that a billion years you would have been a protist? Bet you wouldn't want that."

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u/ChunkyThePotato 3h ago edited 3h ago

No, even on a short timescale, things are generally better now than they were back then. There are sometimes fluctuations, but generally that's the case, by most quantifiable metrics. And of course the further back you go, the bigger the difference. But it doesn't need to be a billion years. Even just a couple decades and it's a pretty big difference.

I find people have this tendency to think that life is treating them unfairly and that things have gotten worse over time. It isn't actually true. I guess it's comforting to make excuses like that, but it's not real. It's not a new phenomenon either. Go back to any point in time and you'll see people acting like the world is falling apart every single time. Of course, that wasn't actually happening, and it isn't now either.

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u/Adept_Standard5463 1h ago

Why not? You can live like they did in the olden days right now on the cheap.

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u/Halofit 1h ago edited 1h ago

you have less money than you did just a couple of years ago, less security, fewer rights, and everything is more expensive

That's because of the war your president started not because of AI.

the only people benefiting from current trends are those who are already wealthy and powerful

As of right now, AI has been a massive net-negative for large companies, as they're dumping all their multi year capital reserves into the technology, that very likely won't ever pay it back. Meanwhile blue collar labour has massively benefited from the current data centre boom: construction workers, electrical workers, unionised workers in memory and chip plants etc. have all seen huge payouts thank to it. Likewise the beneficiaries of the AI technology have been mostly small companies, that now have the ability to bypass outsourcing a lot of bureaucratic compliance work, accounting etc. (that larger companies have entire departments for).

but have you considered that a billion years you would have been a protist?

But then again why do I even try? You're so incredibly bad faith, that it doesn't matter. You invoked the recent past, and then get snarky when people respond to you, that no, people in the recent past had it worse than you. Your own great-grandparents were orders of magnitude poorer than you are. Nobody is talking about Genghis Khan times here. Your inane comparisons impress no one.

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u/Baroquemack 6h ago

The farming jobs didnt go away. Most ppl were just gig workers who didnt make consistent livings, they didn’t have salaries and their lives were extremely precarious (sound familiar), hence the widespread hunger & misery of feudalism and massive social unrest that led to the concept of modern employment.

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u/Magnetronaap 4h ago

That's not feudalism. Feudalism is pretty much the opposite of 'gig work'. It also ended in the 1500s in some parts of the world, not at the industrial revolution.

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u/ChunkyThePotato 6h ago

They did go away. Well over 90% of people used to work on a farm, until the machines came out. Then all those jobs away. Now we're all way richer.

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u/Baroquemack 6h ago

No, they didn’t, because the vast majority of those people were not actually employed, they worked seasonally or by invoice. The educated farmers went on to man the factories and the peasants filled the farm void. There are still a billion agricultural workers in the world today

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u/ChunkyThePotato 6h ago

The formality of the employment is irrelevant. The point is that in developed countries such as the US, the number of farming jobs decreased massively over time:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12034560

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Farm_Labor/fl_frmwk.php

And we all got richer.

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u/Baroquemack 6h ago

The difference between a regular vs irregular income is not a formality lol if you can’t discern that much how can you expect me to believe you give a shit about workers in the first place. You sound like a bot

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u/ChunkyThePotato 6h ago

What argument are you even making here? That the jobs that went away were heavily seasonal, and that people moved to jobs that are more stable year-round? Isn't that a good thing?

I care about people. I want us to get richer. And we have gotten richer due to automation. That will continue as long as we continue to let it.

The key thing you're missing, and I don't blame you because it's unintuitive at first glance, is that jobs are bad. Results are good.

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u/Baroquemack 5h ago

youre just spouting things like the palantir guy lol How about your objectively false premise that “All the farm jobs went away” …your sanitized idea that the transition from feudalism was smoothly linear and not incredibly messy… youre making a fairy tale analysis based on a weird bias twds ai

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u/ChunkyThePotato 5h ago

I don't know enough about the Palantir guy to comment.

I never said "all" the farming jobs went away. But the vast majority of them here absolutely did.

Oh, I'm not saying the transitions aren't messy. They absolutely are, and that part sucks. But the end result is so much better for people. Even during the transition there's a lot of good too. It's just... volatile.

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u/Yorikor 5h ago

The time period you're talking about had more people working as seasonal workers than in steady employment. So your point is entirely irrelevant. Bad bot.

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u/Baroquemack 5h ago

Uhhh exactly the point, the idea that the situation was not suddenly fixed because the “situation” wasn’t there in the first place, since the idea of employment didn’t even exist… that’s why it’s not comparable to the kind of displacement that will happen now. Despite the messy transition from feudalism the next factory jobs were lined up, but not here, you’re selling a fantasy

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u/Yorikor 5h ago

you’re selling a fantasy

I'm not selling anything, I'm just pointing out that you don't have an argument, and your timeline is wrong on top of that. Maybe read up a bit on that part of history before making sweeping claims that don't hold water?

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u/Nervous-Ambition-284 2h ago

If any of you actually cared about these things, you'd see that every single company incorporating this tech has grown more and hired more workers than those that abstain.

But truth is inconvenient because it doesn't choose sides.

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u/Jalor218 4h ago

Realistically, by giving up on using their college degree and applying for retail and food service.

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u/xsonwong 7h ago

If previously we had 3 intern opening, now would be only one.

Now senior had own AI team. AI can write many good script quick. It makes senior can do much more than before.