The Effects of AI on Gaming in the coming decade

[Kaching999]

Seeing the recent push for AI in the gaming industry despite the backlash it has received by gamers,

• How do you think it will affect gaming and upcoming games in the coming decade?
• Will they hype of the AI bandwagon die down or will it actually have some lasting implications?
• What do you think can be some good use cases for AI in games and also in what kind of games?
• What do you think should absolutely not utilize AI?(like XBOX's stupid MUSE)
• Do you want AI to be integrated in games or are you completely against it?

 

[Skoomahed]

What do you think can be some good use cases for AI in games and also in what kind of games?

A use case i can think of is unique dialogs for NPCs in open-world sandbox type of games. Having NPCs dynamically react to your actions sounds interesting and immersive. I saw a video sometime ago where someone made a mod for skyrim where it made use of ChatGPT. They made a follower who basically listens to your voice and then responds accordingly. Of course, it was rough around the edges, the latency between when you said something and when the follower made a response but the end result was pretty cool. Now, i don't know how feasible this could be if you tried to apply it to EVERY npc in the game. But the idea of having at least your close companions make use of Gen AI for dialogs seems pretty cool to me. Of course, there is the other challenge of voicing them.

Though, right now. What would be more exciting to me is decent optimisation day-1.

 

[Kaching999]

apply it to EVERY npc in the game

That would definitely be very cool imagine something like GTA where you can walk up to any NPC and have an actual conversation, this is probably possible but only with something like a 4090 or a 5090 and has most probably not been implemented because of that reason, it could be though once there are more efficient 1b or 2b models and then add the voice recognition to that.

Currently I have seen these two:

I found the second one to be quite good and would benefit from a possible inclusion in a game like NFS.

 

[meizul]

Generative AI gameplay has no place and same goes for AI generated scripts, dialogues and game designs but it could be a good use for say bots in some FPS games or like an inbuilt tailored helper in MMOs and would probably be used in some capacity to design assets and textures, also the in game items available for purchase like skins and all should be labelled as AI generated to allow people to know what they are buying unlike COD when they literally sold generated slop to people. The devs could allow users to use AI for customization like in zoopunk above, but it would have to at least look good and not like the early versions.