Tech investor and CEO of HyperWrite Matt Shumer posted a short AI video “shots” on Xu claiming to show where game development is headed. When it looks like a fever dream: weapons change, UI prints meaningless words, scenes skip without logic. PC Gamer summed it all up in one sentence – “god-awful shooter” – with a reminder that the hype around AI is often ahead of the real capabilities of the tool.
Schumer said in the discussion that the clip is not the final game, but a visual sketch of what AI could enable in a few years. Critics respond that this is exactly the problem: without design, level design, and human direction, generative models produce chaos that looks impressive at first, but doesn’t work as a game.
Shumer’s company HypeWriter is otherwise engaged in the production of AI systems that mostly sound like means to replace human creativity, and perhaps in aspects in which this should never happen unless we want to live in the futuristic and cold dystopia that we often see in movies. Some of the systems that HypeWriter has developed are a generator that creates praise for people from the same business team and an AI generator for messages that express sympathy, and how humanly correct it is to use AI for such things is up to you.