As we have already said on more than one occasion, ChatGPT has made the artificial intelligence (AI) has become mainstreamSo much so that it now aims to revolutionize the way we do many things, from searching the Internet to sectors such as office automation, agriculture, manufacturing and energy. Obviously, video games were not going to be less, although we will see how far the AI goes in this regard.
Various Chinese video game companies are trying to develop AI-powered tools to generate content within the games themselves. In this way it speed up development and reduce costs, which could lead to layoffs currently dedicated to the development and design of video games.
According to the South China Morning Post, corporations such as Tencent, Giant Network, NetEase, Leihou and others are posting job openings for AI-focused positions. Going a little deeper into one specific case, Giant Network is offering 1.1 million yuan (approximately $167,000) for an AI team leader, while Leihou and NetEase are introducing a ChatGPT-like system in their upcoming title, Justice. Online, which would see the light in June of this year.
The implementation of artificial intelligence could not only help in the design and development of video games, but also in other aspects such as collecting data from players and on enemies and obstacles that the player may encounter during the game. Guo Weiwei, CEO of Seasun, the gaming division of the Kingsoft company (yes, the one with the office suite), said last month at a conference that “Over the next five years, AI-generated content will greatly change many aspects of the gaming industry.”.
Another aspect in which intelligence could be applied is to improve procedural generation.. Here we can mention titles like Diablo or No Man’s Sky, which are capable of generating maps randomly. Another detail is that bots in multiplayer titles or chess games could be impossible and very difficult to distinguish from a real human player.
We will see how far artificial intelligence goes in the video game sector, but in China it is already affecting companies and their organization. According to Dash Huang Yimeng, founder and president of XD Corp, artificial intelligence has begun to affect jobs, as two independent game developers use AI to replace positions on their translation and external art design teams.
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