Technology

By pushing into a new dimension, engineers at IBM have nearly doubled the number of transistors they can fit on a microchip—the sort of device that animates your computer—cramming nearly 100 billion of them into a square centimeter. Announced yesterday, the advance continues a historic but slowing trend known as Moore’s Law that since the 1960s has seen the number of transistors on a chip double roughly every 2 years. But it underscores how engineers can no longer simply shrink transistors. To realize the increase, IBM researchers stacked them.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49263187

Tim Sweeney claims it’s a “Scarlet Letter” which makes players “try to kill the game”

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has criticised rival Valve for forcing studios to disclose when they use AI in game development.

Epic recently showed how it was integrating AI into Unreal Engine 6.

Time Sweeney said:

“If you want to launch a game, and get it as widely publicized as possible, you’ve got to put it on Steam so people can wish list it, and if you want to play it on Steam, then you have to get this Scarlet Letter of AI attached to your product, and now there is a hater community trying to kill the game.

“I think it’s really irresponsible of Valve. They shouldn’t do it, because it makes it much, much, much harder for a game developer to have a chance of success. You have to choose from either not using tools that can make you way more productive, and probably failing due to competition that does.”

Which is totally ignoring the factor that the user should know about the purchase it makes and be able to decide for themselves. Transparency for the player is not a bad thing.

I bet they seen where people were switching to Linux. "Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) were supposed to end in October, but Microsoft now says the program will end on Oct. 12, 2027."

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1224671/this-is-not-science-fiction-its-not-premature-lawmakers-must-act-now-to-prevent-armed-po

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1224698/australias-under-16-social-media-restrictions-has-led-to-little-to-no-reductions-in-soci

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1224548/hate-the-algorithm-rss-is-one-of-the-tools-youve-been-looking-for