>When you say "true innovation", is that in terms of non-AI innovation, or non-slimy AI innovation?

A bit of both. Similar to other tech investment, all the gaming centric accelerators are looking for is AI pitches. Makes me wonder what innovations thr past few years have been overlooked in lieu of the Ai Gold Rush.

But I can see the long term (likely 5+ years out) potebtial of Ai as well. Once we stop using it as a means to steal from and remove artists, I can see all kinds of tedious problems with assets that Ai can accelerate. Generative fill is a glimpse of a genuinely useful tool that helps artists instead of pretending to be an artist itself.

Can it eventually write performant code? Maybe. The other big issue is that 1) a lot of code isn't online to train on and 2) a lot of that code is still a mess to process, with little standards to follow. Maybe it can help with graphics code (which is much more structured) in the near future.