{"id":36218,"date":"2026-03-14T17:40:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T09:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=36218"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T09:40:39","slug":"overwatch-vet-jeff-kaplan-on-ai-the-human-spirit-is-irreplaceable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=36218","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch Vet Jeff Kaplan On AI: &quot;The Human Spirit Is Irreplaceable&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1179\/11799911\/4666301-screenshot2026-03-13at3.04.31%E2%80%AFpm.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Games industry veteran Jeff Kaplan, the former Blizzard boss who is now making a new FPS called The Legend of California, has shared his thoughts on artificial intelligence in gaming.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Lex Fridman, Kaplan said the technology, as it exists today, is &#8220;mostly a hot mess&#8221; when it comes to trying to integrate it into development pipelines.<\/p>\n<div data-embed-type=\"video\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7faxOQTwETk\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"100%\">          <\/div>\n<p>He said AI may have a role to play in game development, but in its current state, he feels it&#8217;s &#8220;overconfident in what it tries to deliver.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/overwatch-vet-jeff-kaplan-on-ai-the-human-spirit-is-irreplaceable\/1100-6538790\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Games industry veteran Jeff Kaplan, the former Blizzard boss who is now making a new FPS called The Legend of California, has shared his thoughts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2618,18063,17939,17940,4512,18062,11584,18061],"class_list":["post-36218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-human","tag-irreplaceablequot","tag-jeff","tag-kaplan","tag-overwatch","tag-quotthe","tag-spirit","tag-vet","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}