The developer behind Teach My Little Sister How to Drive, a driving instruction sim where you instruct a generative-AI-powered, dynamic NPC, has been spending $1,000 dollars a day to keep the demo working.

The developer behind Teach My Little Sister How to Drive, a driving instruction sim where you instruct a generative-AI-powered, dynamic NPC, has been spending $1,000 dollars a day to keep the demo working.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    4·
    1 day ago

    Exactly, that’s just smart programming (maybe that’s one of the issues… but I can’t say that without evidence).

    I saw someone years ago develop that concept for a text to speech idea for NPC responses, and for the same reasons. Why repay for something when you can just capture the sound file for each new phrase? The cost is in the creation and addition of things, not in the actual running of every person’s game (or app in this case).

    • TrippaSnippa@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      23 hours ago

      Exactly, that’s just smart programming (maybe that’s one of the issues… but I can’t say that without evidence).

      That would require you to actually understand what your code is doing…