What Happened
AI was everywhere at the GDC Festival of Gaming this year.
Why It Matters
Vendors at the event pitched generative AI tools for things like making AI-driven NPCs and even entire games from a chat box.
Key Details
- On the show floor, I spent 10 minutes playing a demo of a pixel-art fantasy world generated by Tencent's AI tools.
- In a briefing with Razer, I watched an AI assistant for QA automatically log issues in a shooter game.
- And there were many talks about AI, including a standing-room only presentation by Google DeepMind researchers about playable AI-generated spaces.
- But there was one key place where AI was missing: the games themselves.
Background Context
AI was everywhere at the GDC Festival of Gaming this year. Vendors at the event pitched generative AI tools for things like making AI-driven NPCs and even entire games from a chat box. On the show floor, I spent 10 minutes playing a demo of a pixel-art fantasy world generated by Tencent's AI tools. In a briefing with Razer, I watched an AI assistant for QA automatically log issues in a shooter game. And there were many talks about AI, including a standing-room only presentation by Google DeepMind researchers about playable AI-generated spaces. But there was one key place where AI was missing: the games themselves. Of the many developers I s … Read the full story at The Verge.
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Source: The Verge – Original Link
Source: The Verge
