NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang has held a Q&A session with the press as part this week’s festivities for NVIDIA GTC 2024, and with it comes the suggestion that even more game developers might be out of a job in the immediate years ahead, having told one reporter that fully AI-generated games could surface as soon as five years’ time. The news comes a day after NVIDIA shared a handful of videos demonstrating a suite of new AI technologies for driving the next generation of game development, including those relating to digital humans and smart NPCs.
Somebody asked:
- “How far do you think we are in this world where every pixel is generated at real-time frame rates?”
- “And what is your vision for gaming and non-gaming experiences in that new paradigm?”
Huang responded:
- “I think with almost almost everything in technology, the S curve is not longer than a decade once it becomes true, once it becomes practical and better. And, of course, ChatGPT is not only practical; in most cases, it’s better. I think it’s less than ten years away.”
- “In ten year’s time you’re at the other end of that S curve. In five years from now, you’re probably right in the middle where everything is changing in real-time, and everybody’s going, ‘Oh, look at that, this is happening.’ And so you just got to decide, are we two years into it, into that ten years?”
- “…we’re probably already two years into it. And so I would say that within the next five to ten years, somewhere in between, it’s largely the case.”
NVIDIA’s digital human suite of technologies include:
- Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) for speech and animation
- NeMo for language
- RTX for ray-traced rendering
The technologies in action:
Discussion (7 replies)
Join Discussion →With luck, AI will make CEOs of large tech companies obsolete.
...and they will probably be dull as all hell.
AI - despite its name - is not "intelligence". It is just recursive statistics that can get pretty good at mimicry.
Start mimicking existing games, and all you will have is derivative (literally) boring content after derivative boring content.
AI can probably be used to reduce the workload and increase the productivity of game devs, removing at least some of the boring repetitive work, but if you want to develop games that are fun, you are going to need humans involved.
Jensen, and all of AI can go die in a fire as far as I am concerned.
Just imagine how high the concurrent player numbers will get once AI players are factored in. That ought to look good on some board meeting slide. ;)
Probably about the time I will not be gaming much if at all.
I’ll bet AI will be great at making battlefield or madden 2029.
Fully AI created movies and games will never be a thing, the only people who think this is a possibility are tech-bros and investor types. So like Jensen.
But that doesn't mean AI has to die in a fire either, as it can be a great tool in asset creation and making living game words that react to the player.
I agree with MadMummy. The trick will be balancing the data and compute needs for a AI to drive NPC's and a way to keep them from stepping on each-other.
I'd love to be injured in a modern game. And while 90% of folks just walk by... one of them is a Dr or Nurse.. and comes to assist. Even if it's just to stabilize and call a medical team.