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Beyond the consoles , automation is increasingly being brought in to augment and assist in the development of games themselves .
One such example of this is the latest entry in Microsoft ’ s long-running Flight Simulator series , the first entry of which debuted in 1982 . Comparing that first edition to the latest , the leap in fidelity achieved in the intervening 40-year period is obvious . Gone are the blocky lines and solid colours , replaced by a virtual representation of reality perfectly capable of fooling people into believing it is real ( save for the occasional glitch ).
Achieving that level of detail across the entire globe , as the latest edition does , should be well beyond the efforts of any game studio - no matter how large - were it not for the deployment of AI to fill in the gaps . Asobo Studios , the game ’ s developers , have duly partnered with a number of technology providers within and without publisher Microsoft ’ s umbrella .
Austrian tech company Blackshark . ai ’ s contribution came in the form of using AI to extract infrastructure information from satellite imagery , in order to construct a digital twin of the
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