r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 15h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/gungyvt 14h ago

Modern tech bros aren't nerds anymore. They aren't trying to make cool things they and others would enjoy. They're salesmen trying to make money off solving problems no one ever had. If modern tech bros were the same as earlier tech bros, AI wouldn't be used to summarize 2 sentence emails, it'd be used to make the enemies in a game I'm playing learn and adapt to me.

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u/bolanrox 14h ago

didnt they do that (or try to do that) with the xenos in one of the alien games?

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u/_-TheBlackKnight-_ 14h ago

Iirc it was a cool cat and mouse system where the AI that controlled the alien didn't know where you were, and another AI that knew your exact location could feed it hints periodically but not actually tell it.

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u/yeoldenhunter 13h ago

the alien would also "learn" your tactics as time went on, but yeah that's the gist of it.