cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/[email protected]/p/1004331/ai-driving-game-players-are-burning-through-so-many-tokens-its-developer-had-to-take-out-a
The developer behind Teach My Little Sister How to Drive, a driving instruction sim where you instruct a generative-AI-powered, dynamic NPC, has been spending $1,000 dollars a day to keep the demo working.
NPCs in games may be one of the very few actual good uses for AI. But not using the cloud obviously.
The graphics processor is busy doing graphics processing while playing a game. All supporting features of game development: logic, physics, npcs, only run on cpus.
Which existed in the 90s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatures_(video_game_series)
God I loved those games.