Apparently vice president of the United States by default since JD Vance was locked in the locker room closet by Donald Trump, Elon Musk normally already has a lot of projects lined up on his agenda now that he is officially named co-minister of the United States. government optimization (whatever that means other than mass layoffs of civil servants). But the technology giant can't help but release a good fifty tweets per day to tell everything that comes to mind. And it is now the video game sector that interests him.
Elon Musk agrees with the American far-right: politics in video games is enough! It's time to return to the good old days of Fallout and Metal Gear Solid. “ Too many studios are owned by huge corporations. xAI will launch a new AI-generated games studio to make games good again! » trumpets the minister, using Donald Trump's time-honoured slogan in English.
So there you have it, the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter wants to found a video game studio because he finds that there are too many studios owned by giant companies. This is a reasoning that needs no comment, but which is clearly enough to garner the support of the usual far-right polemicists on the microblogging social network, who do not perceive the paradox in this declaration.
As for wanting to develop video games using generative artificial intelligence, it is a project that is ambitious to say the least in 2024. While it is true that technology continues to progress by leaps and bounds, and that Google has managed to build an AI that can run a simulacrum of DOOM in real time, the architecture is far from being mature enough to design a complete game from the first line of code to the last line of dialogue. Not to mention the staggering difficulty of entering the market. Previously, Google and Amazon have tried to penetrate the video game industry, but for the moment, only Jeff Bezos' firm is able to defend itself, not without pain.
Between this note of intent and the technical-commercial feasibility of the project, there is therefore a gulf which seems difficult to cross. If it's more than just bragging.
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