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What I'm most excited for is Demis using his AI to finally finish his Infinite Polygon Engine. I expect he'll get to that right after solving mass inequality an
by mattnewport 8y ago
What I'm most excited for is Demis using his AI to finally finish his Infinite Polygon Engine. I expect he'll get to that right after solving mass inequality and creating world peace.
- 706f6f70 8y agoAI also means we may finally get to ask the last question[1]. Reading that first sentence, it looks like we may actually be ahead of schedule. --- http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
- cpeterso 8y agoWhat is the Infinite Polygon Engine?
- mattnewport 8y agoBefore Demis Hassabis was a master of AI hype he was a master of video game hype. The misleadingly named Infinite Polygon engine was one over hyped aspect of the over hyped and much delayed game Republic the Revolution. I think it actually turned out an ok game but is a notorious example of over promising and under delivering in the games industry.
- ohopton 8y agoI remember reading about the Infinite Polygon Engine in Edge (UK video games mag). Pleasantly described as twaddle on Eurogamer in 2003. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/r_republic_pc https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/r_republic_pc Still disappointed!
- cpeterso 8y agoInteresting. Thanks! There is so little information about the Infinite Polygon Engine that my comment above is now the #1 Google search result for "Infinite Polygon Engine" (with quotes), even above that Eurogamer article. Without quotes, my comment is only #2. :)
- mattnewport 8y agoHere's Demis hyping up the AI (plus ca change...) to IGN: http://m.ca.ign.com/articles/2001/05/17/republic-the-revolution-interview-2 http://m.ca.ign.com/articles/2001/05/17/republic-the-revolut... Compare these claims to the game as reviewed when it finally shipped some 2 years later. It probably did do some reasonably clever and even innovative things but it never really lived up to the hype. He's a smart guy but his real genius appears to be drumming up breathless and relatively unskeptical media coverage, something else he probably learned from Peter Molyneux who also made a career out of some genuinely innovative games that nonetheless rarely quite lived up to the extravagant claims made about them years before they shipped.