PSA: Some Viral AI Demos Are Just 1990s Procedural Terrain

Keenan issued a PSA warning that this week's frontier-model demos are hard to judge, with some passing off 1990s procedural generation—like terrain rendered in seconds—as AI breakthroughs. He cited a 2009 4KB executable that renders terrain in real time, urging people not to hype old techniques as AGI.

2026-09-05 ~ 2026-09-05 · 3 related posts

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