Jensen Huang, the boss of NVIDIA, has been saying for several weeks that artificial intelligence is progressing so quickly in such a short time that, soon, there will be no need to learn programming to create applications since the AI will take care of doing it. During the last conference this week, he went a little further by asserting that within a few years, video games will be entirely created by Artificial Intelligence.
This latest statement from Huang does not come from his usual speech on AI, but rather from a journalist who asked him about the potential of AI for create games In the coming years.
Video games created by AI
Neural networks are trained using GPUs, networks that can do anything they can think of, from images to text to videos of such quality that CGI looks small and we let’s find a clear example in Sora. OpenAIan AI capable of generating any video in a few minutes from a simple description.
In the following video available on YouTube we can see the fast which was used to create videos using the Sora from OpenAI and is a clear example of what this AI is capable of offering, not only in the audiovisual field, but also in the field of video games and probably also full films.
Considering how AI is evolving, Jensen says that AI tools They will be more than sufficient to generate graphics directly without needing to render them and in much less time. Graphics cards or graphics processing units have been used for many years to render games based on a series of instructions created by a group of people (humans) and to which ray tracing has relatively recently been joined to give greater feeling of realism. All of this can be done with AI specially trained for this task.
According to Huang, at the rate at which neural networks are advancing and at the earliest within 5 years, we will start to see video games created by an AI, a process that will be standardized within 10 years. With each new generation of graphics cards, the computing power they offer is improved, an improvement which implies a reduction in the time necessary to carry out this type of process.
What is clear is that creating a complete video game will not be in the “create an original battle royale that doesn’t look like those already available on the market” style. Who says battle royale, says space-themed RGP or any other type of game. Even if an AI can be trained on the basis of information related to video games, at least for the moment we find ourselves in, it is still very green in this sense.
It is likely that within 10 years, AI will have evolved so much that it will manage to possess its own identity (and even its own consciousness) and have the capacity to analyze large quantities of information to create products , in this case video games. , which are widely accepted in the market. To train it, each video game developer can only use the titles for which you own the rights if you don’t want to find yourself in a legal conflict for using video games that you don’t own the rights to.
NPC with AI
Ubisoft announced a few days ago that it was working hand in hand with AI so that NPC of their video games use an AI that adapts to the story without limiting itself to a certain number of actions which, sometimes, do not make sense and make them useless within a story.
An AI’s power of imagination is much broader than that of any human, since it can take into account multiple variables to create complete stories from scratch that can then be modified to adapt to themes or types of games.
