Not content with looking for a whole range of features to improve its interfaces and the user experience of its platforms, Sony is also working on many other fronts, including AI.
In addition, huge advances have been made in this area, notably with Sophy, the AI Gran Turismo 7 capable of bending the best real and virtual pilots from around the world. The manufacturer could soon replace players completely with super-intelligent AIs.
Sony wants to help its gamers with AI
This is indeed what a recent patent suggests, adding to a whole host of others. According to the latest findings, Sony would aim to develop an AI intelligent enough to imitate and even replace gamers, taking on complex tasks that mimic human behavior. Understand that with this AI it would be possible to “hand over the controller” to an artificial intelligence that would play in our place as naturally as possible. According to the patent, this technique would make it possible to level online the players labeled “afk” or help certain others in real time to overcome obstacles that they consider too difficult (in solo or in multiplayer).
Multiplayer soon infected by bots?
You don’t have to read between the lines to understand that Sony is working on what looks a lot like internal bots that can replace any online player. And if it can help some users to take the plunge, why not, but it might put some others off too. Bots are indeed a real nuisance in many games and have a very bad reputation, often linked to cheaters or lost games desperate to fill their online servers.
Deploying a proprietary AI that can infiltrate every game wouldn’t be the best idea, but it’s far too early to draw any conclusions anyway. As usual, a patent application primarily provides an indication of ongoing work. Certainly this must be added to much larger and denser research, the scope of which we cannot yet fathom. However, Sony is actually looking for a way to use artificial intelligence in its games and more.
