Despite the still controversial nature of generative AI, and not only in the field of video games, Microsoft Corporation has made it its new major workhorse with the cloud, notably investing 10 billion dollars in OpenAI last January. Suffice to say that it was difficult not to see the Xbox branch sooner or later becoming the standard bearer of this technology. In fact, Xbox has just announced a multi-year partnership with Inworld to create dialogue and storytelling tools in games. Hand in hand with Microsoft teams, in particular that of Azure OpenAI cloud solutions, this partnership aims to provide “ an accessible and responsibly designed cross-platform AI toolset to help and empower creators with dialogue, stories, and quests “, we can read. These tools will include:
- An AI design co-pilot that supports game designers and allows them to explore more creative ideas, turning instructions into detailed scripts, dialog trees, quests, and more.
- An AI character execution engine that can be integrated into the game client, allowing the creation of entirely new narratives with dynamically generated stories, quests and dialogue for players.
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We don’t really know what exactly the “Responsible AI” label means, but these tools will in any case be available to all developers and on all platforms. Microsoft sees in generative AI “ a world of opportunities to accelerate the creativity of game developers, reduce complexity and improve the player experience “, we can read. Same story, naturally, with Ilya Gelfenbeyn, CEO of Inworld, according to whom generative AI is the key to “ reduce time and resource constraints during production, not only to deliver faster, but also to create larger, more immersive worlds and stories ”, we are told. “ As an assistant to the game developers, our co-pilot will take the seeds of these creative ideas and turn them into detailed scripts with dialogue trees, quests and more “, he explains in his press release.
Supported by tools like ChatGPT (text generation), Midjourney (image generation), Pika Labs (video generation) and SongR (music generation), generative AI is progressing at high speed and raising intense questions ethical. The latest news was that the European Union was working on a draft regulation.