Masayoshi Son of SoftBank Group Corp. chose locations in Malaysia for $50 billion in technology investments, the country’s prime minister said, an outlay that would accelerate the billionaire’s global bet on AI infrastructure.
Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of Super Smash Bros. and Kirby, is warning that AI could lead to a flood of unoriginal games.
Sakurai points out that Steam has gone from around 275 game releases a year in 2010 to more than 19,000 today
“AI can create games, but it can’t create something truly original.”
Sakurai also argues that originality means creating something players don’t even know they want yet.
He uses Fumito Ueda as an example, saying AI could imitate the style of games like ICO or Shadow of the Colossus, but it wouldn’t know what Ueda himself would create next.
Masayoshi Son is seeking up to $100 BILLION from Gulf investors for a new SoftBank AI fund, with talks already held with senior figures in the UAE, the FT reports.
The fund would acquire companies and improve their operations using AI and robotics, with SoftBank's Roze expected to play a central role. SoftBank has already invested $64.6 billion in OpenAI for roughly 13%, and raised another $11.1 billion last month in the world's largest high-yield corporate bond sale.
Masayoshi Son: ASI will be 10,000 times smarter than the human brain by 2035.
“AGI is the same level as a human brain.”
“But people have different definitions of artificial superintelligence.”
“My definition of ASI is 10,000 times smarter than the human brain.”
“And that’s coming in 2035.”
“That’s my prediction.”
Masaaki Hoshino, co-director of Pokémon Champions, says he wants turn-based battles to be preserved “forever,” even if the mainline games continue experimenting with different combat styles.
Champions co-director Kazumasa Iwao suggested that Pokémon’s battle rules could gradually change as Game Freak looks for new ways to evolve the series.
So Champions could become the game that keeps traditional Pokémon battles alive, especially since it will be used for official VGC competitions while Pokémon can try new things in the main games