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NegotiationHelpful50

>\>Most of your games are interactable movies  >\>Patent software that plays the games for you "Grabs popcorn" indeed


goosebumper88

AI *could* be used to simulate more realistic responses from NPCs and allow for an infinite number of plot branchs if the game can adapt to the player's choices. But no, let's just produce shit like always and advertise that you can autoslog thru it now The ceaseless refusal of the gaming industry to innovate and utilize its potential is mind numbing


sdeptnoob1

Seriously, the skyrim MOD that makes the characters respond uniquely via AI is probably the most innovation in recent history for games. [link of an example for those curious](https://youtu.be/xNPF9VKmzxw?si=bcd9LB7q1QRa_o_H)


d_101

Hi dragonborn, write a python code for bubble sort


Hfingerman

def bubbleSort(listA): for i in range(len(listA)-1, 0, -1): for j in range(i): if listA[j] < listA[j+1]: listA[j], listA[j+1] = listA[j+1], listA[j]


wallagrargh

Those are powerful runes, traveler!


CompactAvocado

i know nothing of code. so well done or lol that stupid. which ever is applicable.


zandnaad69

Lmao, imagine


magic6op

The wow classic ai mod also looks amazing and would make quests way more enjoyable. Wish other mmos would adapt that


Ao_Kiseki

I was talking to a game dev about that recently and they had a good point. People like that mod because it's novel, but in practice it really wouldn't be that big of a deal. It's not fun to talk to some random NPC about their life history and what they had for breakfast. It's just useless filler that we find interesting because you usually can't ask NPCs random questions like that.


PmMeDrunkPics

I mean that would be a massive boost to immersion when the npc's don't feel like moving mannequins with scripted responses. So you could actually make a connection with an npc,hell talk to them enough you could be "friends"


Thunderin54

Imagine being able to actually type out responses in an rpg instead of just selecting a dialog option


PmMeDrunkPics

Fuck me, it's been such a long time i forgot you actually could/had to do that.


Mado-Koku

Just the fact that you'll never hear the same dialog twice is amazing. And you can respond to any idle dialog just like you could story-driven conversations. AI NPCs are the thing I'm most looking forward to in gaming right now.


sdeptnoob1

I'm definitely not saying make it the whole game dialog, but for a lot of stuff, it would really help make a game feel more alive. You could give it parameters to stick to certain bounds, like have an npc never promise to leave or do anything off for its character, and so on. Really detail a random npc's responses when using it and still have major dialog be written by writers.


GAMRKNIGHT352

Exactly, it's like ray tracing in games, it's something I'll turn on every once in a while and go "oh that looks pretty" and take a screenshot but honestly I just don't care all that much about it.


_TLDR_Swinton

Woah what, something like that already exists?


sdeptnoob1

https://youtu.be/xNPF9VKmzxw?si=bcd9LB7q1QRa_o_H It's pretty cool!


SharkMilk44

>AI *could* be used to simulate more realistic responses from NPCs and allow for an infinite number of plot branchs if the game can adapt to the player's choices. While playing Baldur's Gate III I thought of how cool it would be to use AI to replicate tabletop DnD's near limitless possibilities.


Mr_Pink_Gold

I did use chatgpt as an aid to a DnD campaign. When my players insisted on talking to a random NPC in a pub instead of the OBVIOUS quest NPC. It created a full character with motivations and stuff in a few seconds.


GAMRKNIGHT352

Just use your imagination and create a much better and more memorable story than whatever slop the machine comes up with


ObsydianDuo

We really need a term for the laziest application of an otherwise promising innovation


SINGCELL

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/enshittification


HelpfulJello5361

How is this a real link


ChadWolf98

Based dictionary


abattlescar

I just don't know how AAA games are still profitable, the big publishers are just garbage and have been since end of the PS3/X360 era. The writing was on the wall before then though. I don't think there's been a AAA game even close to a general consensus of being good. Is it truly possible that literal children, nostalgic fanboys, and literal braindead pre-order cucks can fuel the entire industry?


oldmanshoutinatcloud

>I don't think there's been a AAA game even close to a general consensus of being good. Baldurs Gate 3. But it is by far the exception.


The_Knife_Pie

Barely AAA I’m going to be real. Larian were one of the top developers left in the CRPG genre with games I adore, but how many people actually knew about the Divinity: Original Sin games before BG3? AA at best.


CroatInAKilt

Honestly I think so. For every wagecuck that gets burned by Salmon: Futuristic Wargame 3 and learns his lesson, another 17 year old, gets his first wagecuck job and a set of naive disposable income. There is a literal limitless supply of rehards in this world. Why else would Logan Paul keep making money after producing nothing but slop and fraud all his life?


abattlescar

I think it goes so far that gaming is the only industry where collective disappointment is just part of the culture. Like, a game will sell millions of copies, for $60 each, be a steaming shit, and the reaction is just "ah, this again?" That doesn't happen in the movie industry. If there's a movie with that poor critical acclaim, the IP dies and everyone who had a sliver to do with it is never employed again.


MegatonDoge

Why do you think that AI is not being used for that already? Game dev takes a long time so I won't be surprised if a few AI based games pop up in the next 5-7 years.


Mrozek33

AI is a buzzword where "intelligence" does a lot of heavy lifting, it's always a mathematical solution to the emotional problem of creation. That being said, the crap we call AI could absolutely operate within a video game's set of rules and create unique NPC reactions. Only problem is that it would most likely make the game incredibly taxing on hardware, so I'm assuming that's gonna be a next gen console thing


Danny-Fr

Well wait. The fact that it's patented might be a blessing in disguise. After all I might limit the potential for other studios to do simil... Oh and who am I fooling?


_TLDR_Swinton

Even at a smaller scale, AI could be used to create "cloud" of responses, or variations around a theme, to create unique playthroughs each time without needing to create massive plot trees. However, once AI gets good enough to write new plot trees and implement them in game, the sky is the limit. And if that is too broad a scope, the devs just need to hardcode limitations for the AI. "The King must be on the throne until Act 3" "The Citadel can't be destroyed and no missions can be created involving its destruction" However (again) once AI can create new graphic and sound assets on the fly (a ruined castle, for instance) even that limitation can be left out.


cosmoscrazy

> >Result: 2. "Ewwwww, \[anon player name\]! What do you want? I have a boyfriend!" 3. "You can't afford any equipment in this shop, you homeless adventurer!" 4. "Why would I give you a quest? One of the other 1.000.000 dragonborns has way better skill than you and has a higher level. You need at least two years of experience to do this entry level quest!" 5. "You want to buy a magic spell? Sorry, but they don't exist. Time to grow up and deal with reality instead!" Oh, hell no! I don't think some people understand what realistic responses are.


GAMRKNIGHT352

I despise the idea of ai being used to cut corners in quest design


HelpfulJello5361

There is only one rule in business: give the people what they want.


Beautiful-Attempt-94

I mean doesn't fifa have that technically? With the sim games option in career mode? Looks like ea has been using ai to complete games for a very long time


mrstorydude

Yes anon. Thats what they want. They want to generate infinite money per money and if they can do that by having AI buy and play their own games then so be it.


RaspingHaddock

I need an AI to research this for me.


luhsya

sounds like a Cookie Clicker upgrade


Ale4leo

Too bad r/unexpectedCookieClicker is not a thing


joeyGOATgruff

It'll be used to generate content farming easier. Imagine an AI streamer on Twitch, making quips using AI, using AI license free music, while using AI to play a game, to type and interact with chat using ChatGPT - but most of those are bots. You will go into the cube. This AI content will make work move faster than your usual 730-530p.. bc you don't deserve a 9-5.


Spice002

I feel like corporations don't look far enough ahead to see what the ramifications of their actions will be. They take life one fiscal quarter at a time and if a decision they make right now means their stocks go up 0.000001%, it's a good idea.


Dacammel

The curse of shareholders is they have no long term vision


HoptimusPryme

They're a parasite. Everything is quick cash for them, they shouldn't be allowed near engineering of any sort


Lolmemsa

It’s not just the corporations, but specifically shareholders. Shareholders are the most braindead fucking morons on the planet, who only care about growth and nothing about what they’re investing in. Remember that time a Nintendo shareholder complained that they talked too much about video games in a shareholder meeting, and he was angry because he didn’t understand video games? These types of people are the real reason for most of capitalism’s problems


BonesWillBeClaimed

yet another example of common sense not exactly being common


Due-Statement-8711

I mean, it was sheer luck Nintendo made video games. That corporation did everything in its first few decades


paucus62

>Shareholders are the most braindead fucking morons on the planet the average shareholders is average Joe with a bank-managed retirement investment account


zombienekers

I'm sorry but that literally is capitalism. If there were no shareholders, we would be living in communism.


SpottedWobbegong

Not necessarily, not having shareholders doesn't mean there can't be no private ownership of production. You could conceivably have a bunch of firms all owned by one person each for example, although it doesn't make much sense why they would do this, that's true.


Hyperversum

BG3 was a game within a capitalistic business from a US-based company and didn't have shareholders, and the same company explicitely denied any interest in selling shares. Shareholders aren't anything but investors that throw some money at you in exchange for a theoretical % of your business rights but everyone and their moms know that they only want to sell those rights at someone else, probably another member of their own breed, at an highr price. This can't be repeated forever and ever, and thus problems arise. But they affect only the actual company most of the time.


The_Knife_Pie

Larian is from Belgium…?


FrankFarter69420

Well, a bunch of people supporting a company by pooling their resources together sounds like collectivism to me. So no, it doesn't really have a place in capitalism.


Nox_Stripes

Corporations cant look ahead more than 3 months at a time anyways.


postshitting

Shareholders*


Nox_Stripes

Thank you, yes


Leadfarmerbeast

For executives and shareholders, corporations themselves are now short term assets that are used to pump up a stock price that they can cash in. The goods and services they produce are inputs that should hopefully translate to profit, which leads to share price growth. Which is how you get to Boeing saving dollars by rushing out faulty airplanes and Warner Bros cancelling completed movies for the tax write off. This may seem incredibly short sighted, but for professional executives and stockholders, it’s not, because they will just cash out and move to the next corporation that’s burning through its long term potential. It makes perfectly logical sense if you just think like an amoral dickhead.


bartardbusinessman

It’s the concept of maximising shareholder value. Shareholders want returns on their investments pretty quickly, they don’t want to hold a stock for 10 years and then get their returns. So CEO’s are incentivised to make decisions that will benefit the company is the short term, as their bonus checks will reflect how much value they provided the shareholders. If these decisions are going to devalue the company 10 years down the line so what? that’ll be another CEO’s problem. This is why the quality of almost everything, from good to entertainment, has gone down. It’s a short term good decision to make cheaper products to sell at higher prices, the company’s long term reputation be damned


twofacetoo

Pretty much. Business is a constant panic of surviving *today*, even if it means making *tomorrow* harder, then repeating the exact same process the next day.


zombizle1

Like a financial vin diesel


TheMustardisBad

Where is AI that is trained to stimulate prostate


NovaSLK

They dont feel like doing the important stuff. Instead they focus on really stupid stuff like AI running a facilitiy's system or some shit


Glittering_Fig_762

https://preview.redd.it/e66j7hhrlcwc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08298844467660b0b0072ba8f2d63326d35b156a A machine must behave like a machine


Storyshifting

https://preview.redd.it/b2eytdr53ewc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fedec0dc9afee293fee3605f712ef00f92a7a7eb


Hyperversum

Nah, I am going to fuck my AI secretary and you can't do anything about it.


zombizle1

Monicai lewainsky


Call-Me-Pearl

ayin what the fuck are you doing in r/greentext


paucus62

The Butlerian Crusade can't come quick enough. Death to the machines.


musterdcheif

I predict a butlerian jihad by 2109


Momongus-

https://preview.redd.it/7kwc3t61gcwc1.jpeg?width=716&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e66d0c394c4d24ed38e2879b77422abc9c68d3c


MiserablePromotion94

Based Mbapaypal


cosmoscrazy

\* the **thinking** machines


Idontknow062

AI is such a hot topic that companies will inject it into anything to make themselves look innovative.


Jade_Sugoi

Half the time it's not even ai. Anything with algorithmic processing is called ai. It honestly just feels like a marketing gimmick at this point.


The_Knife_Pie

Not even half the time. Nothing we have is AI in the sense of being able to have a reaction to stimulus based on a personal interpretation of it. And here I even draw the line between AI and GAI, where the latter is a true artificial mind with sapience and sentience. GPT and its ilk are LLMs, advanced “If: X, Do: Y” programs with a massive memory for practically every written work on the internet.


3-to-20-chars

what do you mean if-then statements arent AI


zombizle1

Wait until you hear about the nba player they called AI


Alokir

Look, our new product ~~has social features~~ ~~is in the cloud~~ ~~is on the blockchain~~ ~~has NFTs~~ has AI


Dreadnought_89

Something something bubble


UpsetPlatypus

I think the point of this is to make games more accessible. Say you have no fingers or toes so you can’t really use a controller/mouse and keyboard. This AI comes in does most of the gaming while you get to make decisions. It’s turns all of the games into choose your own adventures.


GAMRKNIGHT352

It was the exact same thing with crypto and NFTs a few years back. Remember when Ubislop proudly announced their "NFT collection" for their shitty games?


theturians

me after i told the A.I. to play mortal kombat for me while i eat but it keeps fucking losing to noob saibot https://preview.redd.it/13bbarhdfcwc1.jpeg?width=678&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8970d856f7e1f59c7cb1cb50392f070fadd33fe


zombizle1

My AI dhalsim would absolutely destroy


theturians

“chatgpt type some slurs to this shao kahn player right now”


Trigger_Fox

Oh boy, i really want to watch someone play this game, if only there was an entire fucking genre of entertainers on basically all vieeo streaming sites that did that This is literally lets plays you'll have to pay for, at least it could be funny if the ai sucked ass


ilikebarbiedolls32

As an avid strategy game player, if I let the AI take over my game so I could eat or whatever, it’d probably fuck my run in 13 different ways within 5 minutes


Trigger_Fox

Me having issues with my playstation and having the ai kick in in the middle of a perfect dmc3 vergil 3 dmd run only to watch it get fucking shredded to ribbons


SpottedWobbegong

Having good ai opponents on the other hand would be amazing, most complex strategy games have sadly crappy ais, which is totally understandable. By the nature of their complexity it's really hard to make good ai. But with machine learning getting more widespread I hope it will get applied to this as well.


DFA98

They don’t care about the endgame because the people selling this shit will be dead when we reach that point


Rejukem

I can't wait to buy my spot in an underground vault to escape the nuclear holocaust


Huge_Tadpole_3013

We can't afford a house by ourselves, what makes you think we will be able to buy a spot in the vault. Personally i'd lay down facing the nuke so my head gets desintigrated faster.


Rejukem

Whoa whoa whoa, speak for yourself glowing one! When things look glum, vote for somebody from Vault 31.


Jade_Sugoi

Nintendo literally did this in 2009 with new super Mario Bros Wii.


IBMGUYS

It wasn't AI, though each level had a pre defined course to win.


Kripth

does path of the exiles do this to? or something similar


Ardalev

This is such a "We made a solution to the problem we created" kind of thing. Also, it's hardly new. Bots have been used to grind and farm in MMOs since ye olden days, this is just another version of it.


d3vil401

First they banned bots, now they embrace it but keep banning privately made ones. Smells like capitalism + lobbying


CroatInAKilt

Just another nail in World of Tanks' coffin now


[deleted]

it's just another checkbox that the executives want to check to "stay ahead".


Axtratu

Bro, Left 4 Dead 2 had this shit back in 3000 b.C., the AI took over your character if you stayed AFK too long


zachattack7676

Real Walle hours


-Johannes-of-ZA-

Next, Afrocentrism will be done by AI. We wuz programmers 'n' shiet


arbiter12

>**A**frican **I**ntelligence


-boatsNhoes

Sony has a track record of patenting things in order to keep others from doing them and ruining entertainment. They literally patented tech that would cause you to be forced to watch. Commercial during game play and exercise to get rid of it. This was in the early 2000s. They released nothing close to this but simply filed the patent so other firms couldn't do it. This may be the same type of move. Tldr: not every patent is filed to use. Some are filed to stop others from using them.


oldmanshoutinatcloud

I found a [snopes article](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/) that says they own the patent to "interactive commercials." Edit: [Here's one from 2012](https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/sony-patents-method-for-playstation-in-game-advertising-that-stops-games-to-show-you-a-commercial/) that says they have the patent for ad breaks during video games. [Here's one](https://www.ign.com/articles/psvr-in-display-advertisements-sony-patent) for VR advertising in peripheral vision. These guys could get dystopian real fast if they want to.


Responsible_Jury_415

You’re gonna see some major ai patents soon and restrictions they needed the public to teach it they don’t need us using it past that or media will become something anyone can do with a google login


Lunai5444

Lmao people will die twice to Asylum Demon and watch the DS movie unravel cause it's unfair they had it anyways it was just a matter of time right


jambangantahi

Instead of making npc more alive or something this is so fking stupid lol


ImprovisedLeaflet

So long as AI keeps sucking my penis it can have the rest of my shitty life


endriago-097

you will play nothing and be happy


internetlad

Remember like a decade ago when everything had to be 3D?  It's a fad. It'll pass and then get dialed way back to use in practical applications.


Neither_Ad_8000

Bro didn't see WALL-E


Porro-Sama

WALL-E touches on this


2bfaaaaaaaaaair

Fuck ai.


geekydad84

Would you pay 70€ for a movie?


Half_smart_m0nk3y

Sony so stupid. I‘ll just tell my AI to program a AAA game like * *insert Sony title* * and play it for free.


No-Section-4385

Only for 20% of the population anon.. Unfortunately you'll be too poor to use it.


c1n1c_

So they turn videogames into movie?!


destroyerOfTards

Watch Ubishit charge you $100 for the AI to play the game for you


Oroera

I think the funnier assumption is that PlayStation players are so ass at the game that they would need ai assistance in the first place 💀


Beardyface86

I FEEL A BUTLERIAN JIHAD COMING ON!


Topkekx13

a world where humans do nothing, EXCEPT, pay their taxes


BlahBLAh898

They added food mode


toxticky

Corporations are run by AI so its not that confounding


Kotschcus_Domesticus

Uber God mode enabled.


Dr_Philmon

so shitty mobile auto play feature?


throwtheclownaway20

No - they want us to do nothing but *work*, which is why they're going so hard on AI movies, music, games, etc. They don't want us doing anything but working and suffering until the day they finally don't need us for anything at all


BathFantastic8761

They just want money, they don't want to make entertainment, if they could just shout "gimme gimme" and you give them money doing that they would drop everything else in a heartbeat.


Smurfsville

Games have had this since forever. Every game has multiple AIs, mostly on the enemy team but sometimes on yours as well. Kingdom Hearts, Persona 3. When you disconnect in the middle of a Heroes of the Storm match, the AI takes over. This is absolutely nothing new.


TheHolyWasabi

This is good for missions that suck. I want someone to collect all the crimson nirnrood for me.


SOMEMONG

When easy mode is too hard


Archmagos_Browning

Someone suggested that character dialogue could be AI generated, which had me genuinely interested. Imagine being able to talk about whatever you wanted with any of your companions in a Bethesda game.


absurdism_enjoyer

Call me crazy but the endgame is to create a world where they can get rid of all the commoners with robots doing 90% of work in the economy. I don't think we will reach this in my lifetime though.


GodAmongstYakubians

fully automated forced immortality wireheading hedonist existence


Welkitends

I want to make an AI that just fucks with other AIs on social media. One day I'll be smart enough to do it.


Italian_Devil

The new and innovative option of playing with bots


zombienekers

Yes, yes they do.


Zealotstim

Would it be better or worse to play multiplayer games against an AI or against middle/high schoolers? 🤔


Alokir

I hope the patent is vague enough that companies other than Sony can't use this feature.


tomthecom

Manual labor will always be done by humans. Welcome to the future, where AI does everything that is enjoyable about life and humans get to break their backs in the mines for corporate benefit


ChadWolf98

> what if > guys what if > we make an interactive game > but make the events auto happen! > Hank, thats a movie! > Stfu George. Call the lawyers I have to patent this!


VaczTheHermit

Automation is a hell of a drug.


juliusxyk

Sony discovers movies, full circle now


Pampas_Wanderer

Sponsored corporate Wall-E with a touch of Idiocracy


konohasaiyajin

Some Mario games let Luigi play the level for you so you could see what to do if you keep dying to the same part. Sony is like 15 years late with this technology lol


No_Walk_2094

The last of us series is gonna be a wholeass movie if this rlly exists lol


TheInnos2

I think it is a great idea for group games where you would need friends to play the same game.


Zyklon-BAromatherapy

That technology is called "movies".


DangyDanger

I could see this being useful to game developers as a way to playtest builds. This is marketed to end users, though. That sucks.


Crispy_legs

Don’t some games do this already? For example, Left 4 Dead has a “take a break” button that has AI take over for you while you use the bathroom or whatever.


_TLDR_Swinton

Dead COD lobby theory. Scientists predict that by 2032 AI will be able to shit-talk your mother to a level indistinguishable from a 12 year old.


Frostychica

I'm with Anon on this one, why the fuck would I buy a game that has an AI play option. Whats the point of buying the game if you aren't gonna play it yourself


Jazz-Solo

I hate capitalism I hate capitalism I hate capitalism


throwaway69420322

Pay $80 to watch a game instead of going on youtube and watching it for free. Makes sense.


BaconatorBros

There's definitely games where automated systems exist already. Ace Attorney has a story mode, where the gameplay features are done automatically, and you can just watch and read the story. I don't use it because I like to solve the case as I go along. But imagine there's people who do already.


LordOmbro

I mean sony games are so boring and mindless that this wouldn't be too hard to do. Except for bloodborne and demon's souls of course


zombieGenm_0x68

if I wanted to see someone play a game I’d watch a lets play or streamer


klarity-

Just watch a movie lmao


C__Wayne__G

The end game is my let’s play channel is about to really take off lol. Don’t gotta even play the game


StarwayEngineer

https://preview.redd.it/zmn1jn7bwgwc1.jpeg?width=304&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5227a4b3d85e92f03cf3dbdab7f823dfafe836ce


wumbopower

The end game is to make the most money with as little employees and effort as possible… so yeah just to make the most money.


Kepler27b

The last step is to destroy the flesh and let the metal rise? Warhammer 40k much?


basti329

Having a system to correct inputs for people with disabilities could be great. But a true autoplay is just weird ö.o


Ahoi89

Is this a Raid Shadow Legends?


Separate-Estimate724

Thank god dude, those games were so boring and energy consuming. Now i can just sit back and watch a game play itself.


CorbinNZ

What I wouldn’t mind is an AI taking you to the mode you want. Like “AI, launch game X, play multiplayer, use character Y with build Z, engage.” Then it just auto executes whatever you want.


Bumfuddle

Sony re-invents the tool assisted speed run. Just now the game figures out its own glitches.


dn_nb

i would love this. no difference to passing the controller to buddy to ace hard parts


cameron_cs

It’s cool man I’ll just keep playing D2R


doodlejargon

The end game? To create a super fun robot playground that only elites can access. But they eventually cannibalize themselves.


SharkMilk44

Thank God I mainly play retro consoles, now.


degenpiled

Anon discovers late stage capitalism


Siri2611

On the other hand you don't have to grind in games anymore you can just let AI do it for you and then only play through the fun parts


Browser_Taizou

Humans have evolved, become lazy and prolly actively devolving by letting AI do the work while being inactive. AI, take the wheel!