Artificial intelligence is extensively displayed at Gamescom, one of the largest trade fairs for the video game industry, in everything from storyline creation to game coding to concept translation into animation. However, even the highly linked sector is wary of the innovation as concerns about job losses and the appropriation of artistic works mount.
According to Julien Millet, an AI engineer and the owner of United Bits Game studio, who was present at the trade show this week, “AI is really a turning point.”One of the potential applications for developers employing AI is responsive non-playable characters or the autonomous development of graphics, code, and gaming scenarios. According to Millet, AI can also instantly create illustrations from words, enabling creators to more effectively “transmit their vision”. Millet confided, “I worry about those jobs.
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Every year, Gamescom draws tens of thousands of fans of video games and provides a venue for developers to present their most recent works. Many players show out in cosplay outfits as they crowd the booths to try out the newest games, some of which this year prominently utilize AI. Players can “create their own dream world, a personalized paradise island with unique characters” in Club Koala, a game developed by the Singaporean firm Play for Fun.
According to Play for Fun CEO Fang Han, “AI has become a crucial component of daily life” and has a “huge potential to take the gaming industry to the next level.” Ivy Juice Games’ Linus Gaertig told AFP at Gamescom, “We utilize it to generate lines of text… to add additional storyline to the game. According to Gaertig, it is also utilizing AI “to generate code,” providing a fresh method for game makers to create the games themselves.
According to Sarah Brin of Kythera AI, which employs the technology to generate character movements, “(AI) makes the game more unpredictable and so the game feels more real.” As an example, American chipmaker Nvidia showed the world how AI might be used to create “intelligent in-game characters” when it released the software ACE.
How’s the chef doing? “Not so good,” is the response; the cook is concerned because local crime is on the rise. However, deploying AI to build expansive virtual worlds can run afoul of legal claims to the ownership of the source imagery. “If you are a major publisher and then use generative AI, turns out what you’ve used infringed on some copyright, then you’re open to some vulnerability there,” said Brin from Kythera AI. In contrast to many of its rivals, Brin’s business has chosen not to train its AI on public databases.