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Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The tech demo is part of Microsoft’s Copilot for Gaming push, and features an AI-generated replica of Quake II that is playable in a browser. The Quake II level is very basic and includes blurry enemies and interactions, and Microsoft is limiting the amount of time you can even play this tech demo.

Microsoft is still positioning Muse as an AI model that can help game developers prototype games. When Muse was unveiled in February, Microsoft also mentioned it was exploring how this AI model could help improve classic games, just like Quake II, and bring them to modern hardware.

Okay, here's a much-less ambitious use of existing AI technology that I think would be vastly-more-useful than whatever they're off doing: how about just going out and using existing AI upscaling techniques and limited human interaction to statically-upscale the textures by maybe 2x to 4x, take advantage of more VRAM on newer hardware?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/

That's kind of what this is for.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

That's frame scaling in real-time, rather than offline texture scaling.

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