Generative AI provoked plenty of dialogue final yr round pictures, textual content and video, however it might quickly have an effect on the gaming trade as nicely. Sq. Enix mentioned it plans to be “aggressively applying” AI and different cutting-edge tech in 2024 to “create new forms of content,” in line with president Takashi Kiryu’s New 12 months’s letter.
“Artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential implications had for some time largely been subjects of academic debate,” he mentioned. “However, the introduction of ChatGPT, which allows anyone to easily produce writing or translations or to engage in text-based dialogue, sparked the rapid spread of generative AIs. I believe that generative AI has the potential not only to reshape what we create, but also to fundamentally change the processes by which we create, including programming.”
The corporate will begin by utilizing it to enhance productiveness in improvement and help in advertising. “In the longer term, we hope to leverage those technologies to create new forms of content for consumers, as we believe that technological innovation represents business opportunities,” Kiryu added. Sq. Enix additionally plans to construct extra immersive AR and VR experiences, together with “new forms of content that fuse the real world and virtual worlds.”
Kiryu name-checked ChatGPT, even supposing its creator OpenAI was just lately sued by The New York Occasions for copyright infringement. Within the gaming trade instantly, corporations together with Valve have mentioned they could limit video games that use AI on their platforms over comparable issues.
Sq. Enix did not particularly state that AI can be used to generate content material within the type of characters, voices, environments or anything, although. Moderately, it seems to be extra of a broad aspiration than something particular. The corporate has made comparable proclamations previously about blockchain, NFTs and Internet 3.0, nevertheless it solely gave these scant point out on this yr’s letter.