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Epic Games accelerates gen-AI adoption for Fortnite and Unreal Engine 6

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Epic Games is significantly increasing its use of generative AI tools across its major projects, including Fortnite and Unreal Engine 6. The company's executive vice president of development, Marcus Wassmer, stated that engineers are now guiding AI tools rather than writing the bulk of the code, aiming for faster development cycles and fewer bugs. Despite concerns about job security, plagiarism, and environmental impact, Epic Games is prioritizing rapid adoption of AI, viewing the risk of moving too slowly as greater than AI skepticism. AI

IMPACT Accelerates development cycles and feature delivery for major gaming titles and engines, potentially setting a new industry standard for AI-assisted coding.

RANK_REASON The article discusses the increased adoption and integration of AI tools within a company's existing products and development processes, rather than a new AI model release or core research.

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Epic Games accelerates gen-AI adoption for Fortnite and Unreal Engine 6

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📰 Epic Games further doubles down on gen-AI tools for Fortnite, Unreal Engine 6 and more: "Our engineers are no longer writing the bulk of the code" To no one's

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    LINKS eurogamer.net/epic-genai-fortnite-unreal-…
  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📰 Epic Games further doubles down on gen-AI tools for Fortnite, Unreal Engine 6 and more: "Our engineers are no longer writing the bulk of the code" To no one's

    📰 Epic Games further doubles down on gen-AI tools for Fortnite, Unreal Engine 6 and more: "Our engineers are no longer writing the bulk of the code" To no one's surprise, Epic Games has now confirmed that it's tripling down on its gen-AI push and will use the controversial tech o…

    LINKS eurogamer.net/epic-genai-fortnite-unreal-…
  3. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Epic Games further doubles down on gen-AI tools for Fortnite, Unreal Engine 6 and more: "Our engineers are no longer writing the bulk of the code" https:// fed.

    Epic Games further doubles down on gen-AI tools for Fortnite, Unreal Engine 6 and more: "Our engineers are no longer writing the bulk of the code" https:// fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.euro gamer.net/epic-genai-fortnite-unreal-engine-6-no-longer-writing-code

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