But Asha Sharma faces scrutiny for lack of gaming experience.

Last week’s surprise departure of Phil Spencer from Microsoft led to the promotion of Asha Sharma, who comes to head Microsoft’s gaming division after two years as president of the company’s CoreAI Product group. Despite that recent history, Sharma says in a new interview that she has “no tolerance for bad AI” in game development.

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CEO Tim Sweeney says requiring developers to disclose their use of AI tools is as relevant as disclosing “what shampoo brand the developer uses,”

  • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    51·
    10 days ago

    Speaking with Variety, Sharma noted that “AI has long been part of gaming and will continue to be,” before adding that “great stories are created by humans.” The interview comes after Sharma promised in an introductory memo: “We will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop. Games are and always will be art, crafted by humans, and created with the most innovative technology provided by us.”

    Shocking take from a microsoft employee making a public statement. I had thought their leadership were all aboard the moron express to slopville.

    Edit: I’m not saying I believe her. I think it’s surprising that, even if lying through their teeth, any MS employee would say this publicly given that it runs directly counter to MS’s messaging on AI.

      • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        11 days ago

        Sure, but I’m still surprised a microsoft employee would say something like this publicly given the company’s apparent need to shove LLMs and generative slop into every nook and cranny in their products.

    • marighost@piefed.socialEnglish
      193·
      11 days ago

      “AI has long been part of gaming and will continue to be,”

      This is such bullshit. AI has only really invaded gaming in the past couple of years, but she makes it sounds like AI (in its current iterations) has been around been around forever.

      • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        261·
        11 days ago

        I think they’re using AI as the umbrella term there, rather than referring to LLMs and generative slop. The term has been used to mean many different things over the years, including the decision trees that drive npc movement and action.

          • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            11 days ago

            Don’t misunderstand me- I fucking hate LLMs and generative slop. I’m not commenting on whether the statement was made in good faith (I doubt it was), I’m just pointing out that we’ve been using the term “AI” as a descriptor of npc behavior for decades and it’s disingenuous to suggest otherwise.