How Generative AI Captured the Spotlight at the Game Developers Conference 2023
Our Team Visits the Game Developers Conference 2023 to Witness the Evolution of Artificial intelligence
Inworld AI held an exhibition at the Game Developers Conference in San Fransisco, in which various companies displayed characteristics in a game with a new kind of artificial intelligence. Fortunately, we had the opportunity to pay a visit and discuss some important prospects. We asked them a number of questions regarding their projects and the characters interacted with us quickly and responded to our concerns in an engaging manner.
In the sci-fi demo, our primary objective was to look into an explosion and speak with various witnesses. We posed simple inquiries about what one robot character observed and did. We didn’t really learn anything from it, though, and we were eager to hear from the next witness. Then, we inquired if there was anything else you wanted to share with us. The robot then let free and expressed its true feelings to us. We just found out about it by posing an open-ended question, but it was a helpful hint. That was actually quite enjoyable because it gave us hope that by asking the proper questions, our team would obtain the right response from the NPC rather than simply robotically retrieving the data.
We saw the potential of generative AI, one of the GDCs, and the gaming industry’s trends in a demo. Everyone has been curious about how generative AI art will alter games ever since ChatGPT debuted a few months ago and since it first started to appear. Many of the generative AI businesses that GamesBeat has been covering have received money, and it’s noteworthy to understand that Inworld AI was founded and received $50 million in funding before ChatGPT was made available.
We heard about how generative AI and other types of AI would become significantly more effective in the next months and how they could combat issues like player toxicity and copyright laws. Much of this discussion overlapped with Nvidia’s GTC 2023 spring conference, where 70 out of 650 talks focused on generative AI. It appeared that generative AI was more popular than some of the trends such as blockchain games and the metaverse. You might believe that our assumption that generative AI took the spotlight at GDC 2023 is fairly logical.
Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, delivered a passionate six-minute lecture about the necessity of the open metaverse at his company’s widely-watched press conference on Wednesday at GDC. He spoke against walled gardens’ and their taxes’ expansion on the domain of gaming firms. He explained how, despite the massive popularity of games like Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft that resemble the metaverse, we are still far from having something that justifies the label “the metaverse.” His speech is portrayed above from a human perspective.
John Romero, another veteran, took home the Game Developers Choice Award for lifetime accomplishment. Romero is one of the greatest figures in the gaming industry, according to Warren Spector, whose games revolutionized the sector. He has devoted his whole life to creating video games, much of it as an independent developer. Also, this week saw the announcement of many blockchain transactions. For example, Immutable and Polygon formed a strategic alliance on Monday. According to CCP Games, a new game set in the Eve universe has received $40 million in funding. Nexon said that it would develop a game using non-fungible tokens in the venerable MapleStory realm (NFTs). Moreover, we got a look at the multiplayer blockchain-based shooter game Shrapnel.
Actual decentralization supporters like the Sky Mavis team, who created Axie Infinity, and Gabby Dizon, cofounder of Yield Guild Games, were encouraged by such developments in the evolution of blockchain gaming. It served as a kind of validation for the efforts they had made to create a new era in gaming.
We were only able to attend a few sessions at GDC 2023 because we had so many meetings and newsworthy events to report. We were delighted to hear from Stephen Totilo of Axios about the benefits of Viewfinder, an application that enables you to solve puzzles by recording a 3D viewpoint.
The excitement surrounding these activities, events, and conferences helped to explain why so many people attended GDC this year. The crowd was huge as we can provide by the queue around the block on Monday and Tuesday to provide proof of documentation and obtain badges.
Compared to barely 12,000 attendees in person last year, I heard that more than 27,000 people attended the event as of Wednesday and that figure was sure to keep growing. Organizations must speed up the development of AI at mass in order to generate value and drive corporate success.
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