Valve is one of many developers using generative AI behind the scenes.

Denis Bolkovskis

Anthropic

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A Valve engineer, Fletcher Dunn, successfully used ChatGPT to identify a new matchmaking algorithm for the game Deadlock. He highlights how generative AI tools like ChatGPT can act as powerful search engines, simplifying the search process even with vague descriptions. Dunn believes that although AI technology might face challenges, it currently offers significant time efficiency and innovative solutions in game development.

A Valve engineer used ChatGPT to find a new matchmaking algorithm for Deadlock, and now it's in the game

Well, that’s the best AI usage, in my opinion. For me, AI replaces Google in about 90% of situations now. It’s a revolution indeed. It’s much more user-friendly to just type what I need and get the answer rather than trying to translate my request to googlish so it might understand.

I don’t like leeching off AI, because their information is extracted from various places and at the end of the day it all boils down to the already available content. If someone decides to cause the AI to spread misinformation, they could easily do so over the span of weeks. As humans that have common sense and actually have real understanding, we can at least determine how plausible the information can be and how close to reality is (which AI can’t exactly do) , and we can also choose our sources more precisely. It’s better to handpick the slop that is generated by both AI and humans rather than take everything there is as a summarized version

Seems nice at first glance, but as actual players of the game have expressed, the algorithm is not a good fit and creates a frustrating experience for a lot of players.