Every time some new development in AI happens, I'm reminded of Psychonauts creator TIm Schafer's words on the technology from a couple of years ago. Speaking on the potential for AI to replicate something that sounded like Mozart, he said: "I was like—wow, that's a really impressive technical challenge, and it does sound like music, and it does sound like Mozart? But also, who cares, because it's not Mozart."
That same phrasing is echoing in my head in the wake of Google DeepMind's upcoming Genie 3, which boasts that it has the capability to let people play a video just like a videogame. For, er, a few minutes before it starts going wrong. Also it only remembers what you did for one minute.
