I do wonder how far the video processing AI will be able to recognise and help with turn-based games, or games in general. As a curiosity, I dug out my copy of Resident Evil 7 that I’d bought Donkey’s years ago and tried to give it a shot with the new Be My Eyes desktop app. It didn’t go particularly well; the fact that it can’t continually track what you’re doing to point out if you, say, left a path and crashed into a wall, or even have the capability to upload further pictures to it as you can do on the mobile app, really hurts in its utility, but I got further than I ever had before. Obviously, that isn’t even video processing and just a single still image, but the fact that you have a form of companion to point out things was still helpful.
Ultimately, it comes down to the fun versus investment side of things, in my eyes. If I’d persisted, I could likely get through Resident Evil 7, for example, by my own using dumb luck and bruit-forced things, but it’d take years. That, however, isn’t fun and just a waste of time for me. With Be My Eyes, I could likely do the same in a shorter time span, but, ultimately, the fact that it’s only pictures being fed in and recognised one at a time still doesn’t make the experience enjoyable. I hope the video processing will now narrow the gap where things start actually becoming fun.
I’m cautiously optimistic about this new development in AI. I mean, screw Minecraft, if it’ll let me poke at the original Fallout games or Caves of Cud, I’ll happily welcome our new AI overlords. I don’t know how much it’ll be able to help with clicking on things when mouse usage is required, though, so perhaps they’re still a ways off.
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