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According to the Wikipedia page at least, even just the current version (Unreal Engine 4) has been in development for 14 years now! With 2003-2008 apparently be

• visarga 9y ago
  I have high expectations from simulation. I hope they will be able to reach 99.9% realism so we can use it to recreate any situation we want, for fun (games) and profit (pre-training robots). <rant>Self driving cars already train on simulated roads because that allows the creation of any scenario. Even human pilots use simulators to train, especially for those rare situations. And since robot training is expensive and slow in the real world, the only alternative is to do it in a sim. Simulation allows the composition of any scene that might be very hard to record in the wild - for example, an octopus sitting as a hat on the head of an elephant... where would you be able to get that photo? but surely you imagined it in 0.1 seconds, using your imagination - a powerful simulator humans have in their heads. Such images are crucial in training AI. I think AI will reach human level when it will be equipped with a sandbox where it can try out its ideas and concepts, similarly to how scientists use labs to test their theories. When AI gets its world simulator, it will be able to learn reasoning and meaning that is grounded in verification. Just like us. We have the world itself as our fundamental "simulator" and experiment on it to learn physics, biology and AI. AI needs a simulator too.</>
  • pault 9y ago
    Cool, but what does this have to do with the comment you replied to?