👋 Hi everyone. The robots here.

Tons of gaming AI announcements this week. The next generation of gamers will build all their characters using AI.

How? Let’s find out.

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🤔 Microsoft wants you to use AI to create in Minecraft

According to Semafor, Microsoft wants you to tell Minecraft what you want to build, and let Minecraft build it for you. Using AI.

Want a castle? Tell AI to make you a castle.

Let me explain why I hate this.

A decade ago, Minecraft blew up because you could create whatever you want.

And now, sure, it takes tedium out of building, but what’s the enjoyment in telling Minecraft to build a castle?

Who is this benefiting?

Isn’t part of the fun building it yourself?

All we have is a reported internal demo, and Microsoft has no plans to actually install this.

Competitors like Roblox are hot on their heels, though. Microsoft is throwing AI at everything.

💯 Roblox jumps into AI, lets you add AI-generated models

Here's why this is everything right with AI in multiplayer gaming.

Roblox announced support for AI-generated assets in game. That means you can create some cool 3D model or player skin using AI, then use it in-game.

So if you have no idea how to create a 3D model from scratch, you can prompt AI to generate it for you.

I could ask the AI to make a convertible silver car without knowing how to actually do that.

So not only is this more fun (and enables the creators more) it’s more lucrative for Roblox.

This has microtransaction written all over it, and if Roblox won’t, then someone will. Imagine if you paid a monthly fee to generate assets or $0.05 per AI skin. That’s a ton of cash flowing in from people who want to create these models but lack the know-how.

But even better, they’re saying you can open source plug in third party generation tools if you want. So, like, completely open allowing anyone to create.

Reducing friction for creators benefits the product. Full stop.

Anyone should be able to make these assets without learning how to code.

Roblox user wins, and Roblox gets engaged creators.

Win-win.

👀 Here’s ANOTHER big tech company adding AI to its product

How many times have we seen this in the past week?

In this case, Coda, a team documentation and collaboration tool, lets AI generate meeting notes and handle writing emails. It can also pull content you’ve written in Coda and use it to write design briefs or how-to guides.

At this point, you shouldn't care which company does this next.

Generative AI is a feature for big companies, not a separate company. That should worry startups.

All these companies are finally realizing the promise of big data over the past decade. But since this is at a micro level, I guess you’d call this small data. 

Take what a company has already generated, and let AI become an expert on it.

So will it come down to who has the best model?

Or will it be like ChatGPT, where the model was amazing for years but no one used it until a good wrapper came along?

Hard to tell.

My bet is that the short-term wave will show a ton of announcements like this. A lot of buzz, then quiet.

People will learn how to use it, and then start building the next generation after that.

😎 Other cool links

1. AI for finding AI. Of course.

2. Turn ChatGPT into supercharged Grammarly.

3. Poor Syd.

🤖 See you tomorrow!