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With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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Imagine a game like “the sims” where you can adjust how autonomous the sims you control are. I could see Ai being used to control that.

Or having an elder scroll game were you just respond however you want and the npc adapts to it.

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[–] 32 points 9 months ago (1 child)

What value would it add to the game?

  • LLMs are computationally expensive
  • Replacing voice actors with AI means making dialogue worse
  • Replacing writers with AI means making the story worse

At the end of the day AI is mostly a marketing term for LLMs and LLMs just aren't that useful in most games, they just average out a dataset to autocomplete a response, that autocompletion is worse than what a human would have written.

We saw with procedurally generated worlds that it takes a lot of effort to prune what is generated to make the game interesting.

There are particular subgenres of games and applications where LLMs might be useful though.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I am a fan of using LLMs specifically to imitate the VAs on demand to pronounce character names. They're generally good enough that a single word can blend in, and you have a couple minutes during the opening cutscene to run the computation. Just having all of the characters never say the custom player name and instead address them in the second person or with a title is a bit jarring

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