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Re:Microsoft's Quake 2 AI experiment sparks negative reactions by timewizard on Sunday April 06, 2025 @02:02PM (#43603466)
> but the fact that it can reliably do this at all is extremely impressive

The better question is could you achieve the same thing using much less computing power and simpler methods? Would a Markov chain be able to do the same thing? If so, I'd have to with the articles sentiment, this burns a bunch of electricity to do something with extreme inefficiency and waste.

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Re:Microsoft's Quake 2 AI experiment sparks negative reactions by jsheard on Sunday April 06, 2025 @02:22PM (#43603608)
> The better question is could you achieve the same thing using much less computing power and simpler methods?

If only there were a way to play Quake 2 on a 90mhz Pentium with 16MB of RAM...

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