Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced was a big hit, and now it’s time for big layoffs at the studio that made it

Three months after the very successful launch of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, a game that sold two million copies in a single day (three million copies in a week!) and surpassed “annual expectations” in just two weeks, Ubisoft has laid off 70 people from developer Ubisoft Singapore. This would be reason number two on…

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‘AI godfather’ worries we’re creating ‘alien beings’ with artificial intelligence, with pesky moral implications

Geoffrey Hinton is a computer scientist known for his foundational work in AI, specifically when it comes to neural networks (ie, approaching machine-learning a bit like our fleshy brain-learning). As such, he’s been described as the ‘AI godfather’. But, perhaps surprisingly, he recently described AI as “alien beings” that humans have a “moral obligation” towards….

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If New Blood had made Dusk 2, there’d be no Iron Lung, ‘and now David Szymanski has got a movie that made $50 million’—so maybe there’s wisdom in not churning out sequels

New Blood boss Dave Oshry isn’t interested in running a massive studio that follows the blockbuster strategy of milking its successful games for all they’re worth. The publisher-developer combo has enjoyed a string of big wins with its boomer shooters, but Oshry’s plan for building on success is to invest that money into new projects….

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