We're in a strange place with artificial intelligence (AI). Executives, eternally eager for annual growth, aren't quite sure how they can use AI to create more wealth, but they're trying in any way they can find. In other words, capitalism hasn't yet found the niches where AI makes or loses money for corporations.
Xbox has undergone four rounds of layoffs in the last eighteen months, with the most recent round being the most devastating of all, prompting numerous project cancellations and a studio closure.
One of the studios affected was King, developer of Candy Crush. King was acquired by Xbox in the massive $69 billion acquisition of Activision-Blizzard-King, and now the studio is set to absorb 200 cut jobs.
In response to the layoffs, Matt Turnbull, an executive producer at Xbox Game Studios Publishing, suggested that laid-off staff use limited language models (such as Copilot or ChatGPT) to seek career advice.
According to a report from Mobilegamer.biz, former staff members are reporting that Microsoft is replacing their roles with artificial intelligence tools that were created by laid-off staff.
"Most of the level design has been wiped, which is crazy since they've spent months building tools to...
