While artificial intelligence was on everyone’s lips in 2024, the coming years should see more investment in this area, and video games could well be at the forefront to benefit from it. In any case, this is what a patent on generative AI filed by Microsoft last June and recently made public suggests.
AI could soon create everything you want in your games
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Highlighted by Windows Central, the patent suggests that the technology could allow developers and players to personalize elements like the rules, characters, and narrative content of games, by writing specific instructions to an AI.
Systems and methods are provided for evolving computer-implemented narrative games based on player feedback to take advantage of generative artificial intelligence (AI), such as a pre-transformer. generative trained (GPT) or other foundation models, to create new game content in response to player input, to measure player engagement metrics during a game, and/or to modify the game on the basis new content and/or player engagement generated.
Several explanatory diagrams are available and show generally how things could materialize, both for the developer and the player. One proposed example is integration into a game like Minecraft, where players could generate systems, stories, and even NPCs in real time.
Of course, this remains a patent and there is no indication that such technologies will soon arrive in our games. However, this reflects Microsoft’s ambitions in the vast field of AI, since we recall that the company announced on January 6 a massive investment plan of $80 billion for 2025.
In fiscal 2025, Microsoft is on track to invest approximately $80 billion to build AI-enabled data centers to train AI models and deploy AI-based applications and the cloud worldwide. More than half of this total investment will be in the United States, reflecting our commitment to this country and our confidence in the American economy.
If it is currently difficult to really know how such a technology could come to life in-game, and what its limits would be, it goes without saying that we remain very curious and quite excited by the prospects it could offer.
