AI Technology Takes Another Big Leap... But What About Games?

[jring]

The most obvious use case for generative AI in games is with NPCs. Realistic dialogue interactions, responses, etc

[eduardo]

The future is actually companys hiring people with talent, good planificaton and enough time of development and devs doing the work right... If we still didn't achieve that in the majority of the games, an AI is not gonna save us

[thyongamer]

My guesses are AI cores that can run:
* physics AI to create realistic simulations of fire/water/smoke, explode/breaking/shatter, clouds, fog, hair and clothing movement
* animation AI for more realistic generative procedural motion for players and enemies, like turning skidding/sliding, bumping/touching walls
* rendering a conceptual low res version and the AI adds a image texture overlay and upscale
* lighting AI which generates realistic reflections, refractions, shadows, AO, GI, which is already happening with Nvidia now
* later on having unscripted AI interactions - where the mission or side quest could vary depending on your past actions or choices or just your playing style in the game

[benmcreynolds]

I'm curious if we could see some kind of Tech that specializes in improving the ways a Graphics Card can render out each frame & improving the ways the CPU gets utilized. Currently we are seeing a ton of improvements in our hardware BUT it seems like we are falling behind when it comes to software & our abilities to utilize our hardware to it's fullest potential.. Such as inefficiencies in the realm of rendering prioritization, processing efficiency, finding and fixing code in order to optimize video games, or physics simulation models.
Random: I have realized how much I miss having Wacky sports games, Xtreme sports games, Pure over the top insanity type video games! Can we PLEASE bring this back! I miss how unique gaming was thru 90's-00's. Those games were amazing & beautiful even tho Devs didn't have access to ray tracing or 4k resolutions. Did the game industry just forget how important stuff like physics effects, rag doll effects, using creative art styles, creating satisfying movement, finding intriguing gameplay mechanics, responsive damage effects and interactive environments. Having a game with a variety of different gameplay modes. Current games are way too focused on the wrong stuff and they forget they're making a game that is supposed to be fun & appealing. Did the industry just forget what fun & visually appealing is?


I hope we will see a massive improvement in the ways video games can be made. I swear the fact that game development is so unintuitive it restricts a lot of the creativity and it limits how many people actually end up working on making video games..

[PixelisedPaul]

If any of this means I don’t have to click pictures of ducks when I try to claim my free Epic Games Store game, I’m all for it.

[hxy]

I see a big difference between 1. using AI to speed up game development, 2. AI to improve rendering, 3. using gen-AI instead of 3D rendering. I'm hoping we'll see a combination of 1 and 2, more so than 1 and 3.

[batou]

power usage scaling is also a limit that everyone seems to ignore.

[kappaslapper]

All along we were just the maggot that gave birth to the Ai fly .

[Dosnmeda]

I just want voice recognition in my RPG games. I'm fine just reading the lines out loud for now.
Or how about a game like Pokémon, where your Pokémon learn your voice commands the more often you use them.

[urazoktay]

Amazing video, i thoroughly enjoyed it, thank you Digital Foundry.

[enigma]

When you are upscaling the frame is held whilst new artificial frames are inserted ahead of it. This affects the machine response times and will lead to games feeling slow and strange to play.

[DETERMINOLOGY]

Games will get more demanding (Badly optimized), People will rip on the 5090 for not running them correctly and everyone will say the gpus are trash and move on to the 6090s and so on. Simple

[Katsu-vy]

I don't like the A.I. look of the generated images. It's too shiny and clean.

[VampireNoblesse]

if TESVI or Fallout 5 could use such somehow for NPC or companion dialogues / behaviour

[grantlauzon]

I am concerned about AI art... This will make AI art and Deep Fakes better because they can start from a structure and build it from the ground up instead of trying to render the whole thing outright. When drawing a you start with simple shapes and add detail as you progress whereas AI just adds detail and damn the consequences. The laces on boots are usually wrong on AI images where if a human was going to go through the effort of adding laces to a drawn boot they'd might as well do it right.

[chadwolf]

I’m sorry but who on earth needs a local chatbot? We got grok, openai, gemini all for free. NVIDIA just not focusing on the consumer market at all.

[TremelJackson]

Developers can have the most advanced Ai in the nebula and it wouldn't matter if they don't know how to utilize it properly, they'd just turn out more slop games in rapid succession.

[nomarzenun]

Stupid nerds keep playing with fire lol.

[snthtiCloud]

this whole channel is ai upscaling now. Are we supposed to be excited? Df is turning into salesmen for upscaling. what a huge waste of time

[lordspalse]

Use whatever Ai has to offer to make a great football game. I'm sick and tired of FC24 and those two pathetic commentators 😂😂