AI becoming sentient

It’s also super misleading. We’re years, if not decades, away from that happening in real time without any human involvement. Those videos are generated by a person putting the video capture into a video to video prompt, and spending many hours tweaking to get those results.

It also looks aggressively shit. I feel games already moved past it somewhat. Stuff like dishonoured (or any Arkane output) having a deliberate style or say Disco Elysium.

Old games that still look great, like Half Life, it's because a human applied art to the whole holistically. They look shitter when people do this, or insane HD texture mod packs. Which often just rob the game of it's original artistic intent.

Been sat on an expired passport since lockdown. Not even needing an emergency one a couple of years ago motivated my lazy self to renew it, until recently.

Sent the old one off to HMPO, got an email a couple of weeks later saying they'd received it and would process my application. Then I started getting emails: 'send us your documents or we'll cancel your application, no refunds'. I assumed they needed my emergency passport as well, despite being told they didn't. I shredded it ages ago, so I register it as lost. They email saying 'please call us'.

I call them and explain the emergency passport situation. They say 'I need to talk to someone, ring you back in ten minutes.' 40 minutes later I get a very apologetic phone call informing me that I have been moved to the very front of the queue and my new passport is being printed right now this second. The emergency passport didn't mean shit, turns out the AI they now use to assess every incoming application fucked up and decided that it had received my old passport, then decided it hadn't.

Finally, it's learning