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What leaked "SteamGPT" files could mean for the PC gaming platform's use of AI

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What leaked "SteamGPT" files could mean for the PC gaming platform's use of AI

These days, it seems like every tech company and their corporate parent is looking to squeeze AI tools and features into their products, whether they're wanted or not. So when files with names and functions referencing a "SteamGPT" appeared in a recent Steam client update, Valve watchers took quick notice. From the outside, it's hard to tell precisely what form any such "SteamGPT" would take. But looking through variable names and references in the files themselves suggests that Valve may be looking to use AI tools to streamline internal evaluations of in-game incidents and sift through potentially suspicious accounts. Looking at the variables As tracked by the automated SteamTracking GitHub project, the term "SteamGPT" appears multiple times in three separate files added in the April 7 Steam client update. In addition to the SteamGPT naming convention—a seemingly obvious reference to the generative pre-trained transformers popularized by ChatGPT and its ilk—the files include mentions of terms like multi-category inference, fine-tuning, and "upstream models" that point to some sort of generative AI system. Read full article Comments

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