How artificial intelligence is changing video games – In the future, players will be able to create their own virtual worlds, starting from AI models that already exist
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The global video game industry is set to be profoundly changed by the advent of artificial intelligence models that can generate interactive 3D environments. In the future, say AI experts, players will be able to create their own diverse worlds in their favorite games, using models that already exist and are constantly being improved.
Companies such as Google DeepMind and World Labs are looking with great interest at the gaming industry, with 3D environments generated by AI, writes the Financial Times, in an article about new AI models.
The video game industry is valued at 190 billion dollars/year and will be strongly influenced in the coming years by the so-called “world models”
A “world model” can build coherent 3D environments (spaces, objects, basic physics) and respond interactively, in real time, to actions or text commands.
Compared to classic generative AI, which creates an image, text or clip, these gaming “world models” create a continuous, navigable world, a logically evolving virtual world.
AI companies like xAI, founded by Elon Musk, but also the giant Nvidia, are trying to integrate these “world models” into robots and autonomous vehicles. However, they are not the most suitable there.
In gaming, current generative AI tools are already being used to create visuals for games, such as unique landscapes and characters. But it goes much further thanks to technology.
AI companies are betting that the release of new and more powerful “world models” — capable of generating interactive 3D environments from text commands — will accelerate AI adoption among gaming companies.
These technologies could affect complete software platforms such as Unity and Unreal, and a player who knows how to use such “world models” will be able to insert himself into a virtual world.
However, critics argue that the increasing use of AI will lead to the replacement of developers and artists, and game graphics will be flooded with “slop”, that is, low-quality AI material with no real value. This “AI slop” is everywhere on social media where repetitive text or nonsensical images full of obvious errors appear.
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