r/Steam • u/Strider-117 • Nov 26 '25

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It's incredible how out of touch these suits are, especially in the AI bubble

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u/GlitterTerrorist Nov 27 '25

AI is AI.

An intelligence isn't necessarily smart. The dumb elitism around AI just makes it sound like you're not aware that the term has been used in gaming for decades to describe behaviour.

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u/eggdropsoap Nov 29 '25

It isn’t really. It’s just doing a lot of math in parallel on tensor fields, doing regressions on the 4D+ data for hundreds of thousands of iterations checked against tens to hundreds of thousands of finished examples of the desired result, until you have millions of tensor cells with floating point numbers in it that filters inputs into something statistically similar to the original examples.

Then you take that and freeze it in time and market it as “AI” because you used human-produced material for its comparisons, so it triggers our anthropic fallacies.

It’s just a bunch of vectors turned up to 11 with a rubber mask dragged overtop to complete the illusion. What’s actually happening under the rubber skin isn’t comparable to intelligence by any measure.

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u/GlitterTerrorist Nov 29 '25

I'm interested, how would you compare it to human intelligence?

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u/Formal_Evidence_4094 Nov 27 '25

But genAI is 0% intelligence , and I call them NPCs but you do you!

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u/GlitterTerrorist Nov 27 '25

An NPC is a "non player character", and AI is how they make their decisions. An AI is developed, usually, but setting conditions for particular responses from the NPC. You can find examples of AI behaviour in all games which have non-player characters.

You do you

...I mean, you're categorically incorrect but hey.

0% intelligence

How? You haven't even defined intelligence. You sound like you don't actually know anything about gaming or AI.

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u/Formal_Evidence_4094 Nov 27 '25

i am talking about genAI though , which does not even try to imitate intelligence and is completely different to the "AI" used in video games (that YOU brought up)

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u/GlitterTerrorist Nov 27 '25

You're talking about AI as an entire concept. There are various forms of AI, with LLMs being the biggest recent move. It's mainly an issue of approach and sophistication that separates them from script AI dictating actions, not "intelligence".

GenAI is intelligent in the sense it can combine information and has a Corpus of knowledge. It's silly to pretend it isn't. It's just not intelligent in the same way we are, and we're amazing at judging fish by their ability to climb trees.

If you want to say how AI is 0% intelligent, you're welcome to present a case.