Sony are experimenting with AI characters who'll speak to the player using OpenAI and Chat-GPT, according to leaked footage of Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West.
  • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    22 hours ago

    I feel so bad for anybody creative in that industry :/ imagine being a writer for the Horizon series and seeing some fucking suit plugging AI into a character you’ve put months of work into and going “look what ChatGPT can do!”

    I get it bad enough at work but fuck, that’s heartbreaking.

    • CluckN@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      23 hours ago

      I imagine game studios are out of ideas so they are pitching, “AI NPC’s” to investors. This would also save money on voice acting and writing. If Rockstar’s GTA VI does bad then I’m counting that as the final nail in the AAA coffin.

      • wwb4itcgas@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        22 hours ago

        Interesting point, although I don’t see how you’d manage to run modern TTS (the models can get very large, and that’s per voice; as an example Parler-TTS’s mini model is 800Mb, the HQ model is 2.3Gb - for one voice) + a LLM for content synthesis on any personal hardware, console or not. The storage requirements alone would make that grossly infeasible.

    • Chozo@fedia.io
      3·
      21 hours ago

      It was kinda neat when they did it with Cortana. But then they removed all the Halo references and swapped the original voice actress with a generic voice synth, but kept the name for some reason. So what was once a charming little digital toy turned into a half-baked AI assistant that doesn’t do what you want half the time.

    • RonnyZittledong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      I could see AI interactions being interesting in some types of proceduraly generated games but I think the novelty would wear off pretty quick

      • wwb4itcgas@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        18 hours ago

        Thing is, I really don’t see how that’d work for any useful scenario. Even in this very limited case, natural language processing and response generation is definitely off-loaded to a remote server farm. It certainly isn’t running on the console. TTS for a single characters voice could - but likely isn’t - be done on the hardware, but as I mentioned elsewhere, the voice models for modern text-to-speech synthesis are very, very large. Typically gigabytes of data - per voice. Completely unrealistic for any meaningful game.

        Even if all those trained models existed (they don’t - and making one is considerably more work and expense than having a voice actor just deliver a fixed set of lines), I doubt any consumer would be amused by a multi-terabyte download.

        Even as it is, the response latency is hilariously bad. I imagine players having to wait seconds for each NPC response would fly as well as a lead brick.