The best thing about all these AI stories is they give people a lot more chances for a FP.

How can we expect a femtosecond accurate clock when walking across the room towards it will cause your time to drift relative to its time?

Kinda like a /. post.

And shrinking the population is not a bad thing, except if you're running the world's largest ponzi schemes that depend on an ever growing population, like, you know, social security and Medicare.

He is already fortifying the white house with a military defense system to prevent him being removed from office when he is either impeached or finishes his term.

Their population model didn't capture the billionaires making it too expensive to have children or to even have a parent stay home to care for them. The "everyone must work to make billionaires richer" paradigm that took hold under Reagan and Bush Sr. slowed population growth globally. We're still going to annihilate ourselves but it'll be by destroying the environment we live in and making food unobtainable for the non-billionaire class

An AI ultra-lint finds some vulnerabilities, so what does management do?
They have another AI they rented "fix" the vulnerabilities it knows about.

And soon, no human can know and work reliably on the code.
Management poured money into the initiative, and will not be proven wrong:
"AI found what humans didn't, so AI has proven to be a better 'programmer' than any human.'

Sure, something small isn't a big deal for a pro, but a code base significant enough
to undergo the expense of this process and then set the CIO's hair on fire,
say, the access permissions system for a major bank,
will soon be pwned by the AI vendor, forever more.

The first step is "AI, write this". It was easy, it worked, it's magical. You inspect the code, it's not bad.
The next step (because why do it yourself now?), is "AI, extend the thing you wrote", and it does it.
You test it, it works ok, maybe you glance at the code this time, maybe not.
New requirements come down, and you try tossing the AI the raw requirements and it
poots out a thing good enough to pass QA.
This time, you don't look at the code at all. Why bother?

And now, the AI owns the code base, and your organization is forever captive.
This is happening, at scale, everywhere, right now.
Good plan, frat boys. Enjoy your bonuses. The won't last much longer.

With permanent DST we won't get the stories twice a year.

They'll need the money to settle all the resulting lawsuits.

In a dire emergency, your car is the last place you should be, and the last thing you should try to hang onto. FEMA's official disaster preparedness communication calls for you to have a PORTABLE AM radio and to avoid travel unless absolutely necessary. "Let's get in the car and go to Disney" is not part of FEMA's official recommendations.

Also, to assume that AM radio will even work in an emergency or disaster is a stretch in the first place. Ancient broadcasting equipment living in swamps with hundreds of meter tall towers, seldom internet access, and nonredundant uplinks, are not reliable.

When Helene hit us in 2024, AM/FM radio was the first thing to go off the air, followed by the land-based Internet providers, followed by the cellular networks. We got by with local amateur radio operators who were able to communicate outside the zone on batteries and solar panels.

There is no "one thing" that is going to be universally reliable in a disaster. You have to have an "all of the above" mindset and prepare to communicate by different available means.

It's not about emergency preparedness.

Don't have to be a profit^w prophet to see that coming.

What I'm getting at is there will be modeling, lighting, and animating "by hand" like before.

Not that this would be the best example, but one of these systems should be able
to be shown a picture of some lake in a park, you can ask for a Mario and Master Chief scenario
and entities that act expectedly Mario and Halo-like appear in world, exhibiting their default behavior.

How long would it take to build that in Unity or Unreal?

Yeah, everyone knows that times a million. That's not the point.
You have 100,000 PCs, each with a hot GPU vs. AI gen-ed from a load balanced server farm someplace.

All things being equal, and they're not, the AI generated stream experience would be superior,
infinitely customizable and scalable and reactive in ways beyond the design studio world's plans.

And contrary to some opinions, probably using way less power and way less dedicated hardware.
Like I said, we're not there yet, but it's possible and we've seen it.
It's just a matter of scale, mostly at this point.

What will a 'Game Studio' be?
The era of parametric shapes and vertices and triangles and shaders will soon be done and gone.
Game views, and the scenarios themselves will be generated on the fly, by request,
rendered by some AI engine, to meet one's specific, custom view requirements.
Music and voice too. It will be the way it's all delivered.

Not yet, but soon. A way easier path to hyper-realism than having to model and light it all,
and as we've seen, that they can't do it today without requiring an Nvidia space heater.