Artificial Intelligence Supported Characters Are Coming to Xbox!

Microsoft, which recently acquired Activision Blizzard, announced that it has made another move for its gaming side, Xbox. The company is an artificial intelligence focused company Inworld AI formed a partnership with. This partnership, which will last for years, will offer developers technologies that will take Xbox games to the next level.

The collaboration with Inworld AI will offer Xbox developers the opportunity to create productive AI-supported characters, stories and missions.

We can see artificial intelligence-supported NPCs that can answer your questions, such as ChatGPT, in Xbox games.

Partnership, “AI design copilotIt will include a system called ” that allows developers to create things like dialogues, detailed scenarios, stories, etc. It also offers character, narrative, mission and dialogue-oriented artificial intelligence features. “AI character runtime engine” tool will also be offered.

Inworld has actually been around for a long time AI-powered NPC (non-playable characters) working on it. With this support, the characters in the game can give personalized, more realistic answers to the players, just like ChatGPT. A few months ago, we saw a mode called “Sentinent Streets” that was added to GTA 5 and brought artificial intelligence to NPCs. In this mode, Inworld AI’s technologies were used. In addition to characters, we can say that we will see the use of artificial intelligence in tasks, storytelling and other issues.

Only developers who want to can use artificial intelligence tools

Microsoft will offer artificial intelligence features to developers optionally. In other words, studios will be able to choose whether to use artificial intelligence in their games. It is possible to say that this is a logical move.

Entertainment industry, about artificial intelligence was worried. Many people don’t want AI to replace voice actors, game designers, or writers. For example, The Finals developer Embark Studios recently told IGN against the use of artificial intelligence-generated voices in games and drew attention to the importance of voice actors. On the film and television side, we have seen writers go on strike for months due to the use of artificial intelligence. This is an issue that directly concerns playwrights.

In short, although the artificial intelligence support of NPCs is exciting, the use of artificial intelligence in other parties is not something that is desired. We’ll see which Xbox developers will take advantage of these tools in the future.