I imagine game studios are out of ideas so they are pitching, “AI NPC’s” to investors. This would also save money on voice acting and writing. If Rockstar’s GTA VI does bad then I’m counting that as the final nail in the AAA coffin.
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wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Does anybody actually want that, ever?
CluckN@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Interesting point, although I don’t see how you’d manage to run modern TTS (the models can get very large, and that’s per voice; as an example Parler-TTS’s mini model is 800Mb, the HQ model is 2.3Gb - for one voice) + a LLM for content synthesis on any personal hardware, console or not. The storage requirements alone would make that grossly infeasible.
RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I could see AI interactions being interesting in some types of proceduraly generated games but I think the novelty would wear off pretty quick
wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Thing is, I really don’t see how that’d work for any useful scenario. Even in this very limited case natural language processing and response generation is definitely off-loaded to a remote server farm, and isn’t running on the console. TTS for a single characters voice could - but likely isn’t - be done on the hardware, but as I mentioned elsewhere, the voice models for modern text-to-speech synthesis are very, very large. Typically gigabytes of data - per voice. Completely unrealistic for any meaningful game.
Even if all those trained models existed (they don’t), I doubt any consumer would be amused by a multi-terabyte download.
Even as it is, the response latency is hilariously bad. I players having to wait seconds for each NPC response would fly as well as a lead brick.
alaphic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
crickets