Gaming

Unpopular opinion - From a the standpoint of a video game consumer, I’m not as pessimistic as everyone else commenting here.

Let’s leave aside the very valid significant concerns about the negative impacts/disruptions of AI on the economy, society, etc.

Consumers will (I hope) still demand games that are interesting and fun.

I think AI can play a big role in generating content that is curated, corrected and approved by developers (as opposed to being generated on the fly with no quality control)

Remember that generative AI is in its infancy. AI image quality has come a long way just in the last year, and AI video generation and 3D model generation is in the works. I suspect at some point it will be able to optimize and animate models.

Basically, AI will provide souped up procedural generation.

One of the big complaints about Starfield was how generic and repetitive the planets and missions were. Pirate bases were copied and pasted onto multiple planets, down to the junk items and even the corpses etc.

AI could potentially solve this sort of problem if it’s able to generate planets and bases and populate them with quests, dialog, weapons, characters and aliens, all generated to be unique but still substantial.

Basically, I think AI has the potential to make procedural generation less generic, which I’m really looking forward to (AS A CONSUMER).