Roblox CEO David Baszucki responds to a question raised by Elad Gil about whether children will form serious relationships with AI companions.
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Baszucki: Roblox ignores university pedigree as top talent bypasses elite schools
“Well, I think people typically think like I went to Stanford. That's where all the top talent is. We have found that not necessarily to be true. And we have found community college, you know, the small Midwestern engineering school, like, because we're assessi…”
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Baszucki: AI Worlds Will Span Shared Holodecks to Solo Real-Time Dreaming
“And so if you put those at two extremes, one is communication platform, high fidelity with people, you know, the other is real time dreaming where everyone's an NPC. Everything in between is possible. And I think we see everything in between ultimately as bein…”
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Baszucki: Photorealistic 4D simulation will replace standard 2D video conferencing
“I think as a technology for multiplayer, four D simulation gets better and more photo realistic. It's almost going to be like video is the down sampling. And it's like, if we were having this for the immersive communication, we'd say go to legacy analog mode a…”
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Roblox will store its entire platform history as 3D vector data
“I will share that the format we're using part of the vision for us is to ultimately store the history Of everything on Roblox, and to store it, not raster like video, but store it vector, which means the ability to play back anything that's ever happened on Ro…”
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Baszucki: AI slop will not take over game creation from humans
“I think, you know, I'm not to the point where I believe, you know, what we call AI slop today is going to take over. Like, I think the human touch is Got a long runway on it.”
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Baszucki: Five-person teams will produce astounding game quality with AI
“So, but I do think the role will be more leveraged and the quality coming out of five people will be astounding, you know, but we'll come to expect that quality. So quality will go up.”