AI is clearly at the center of all the controversies in recent months. While in some areas, it is indisputable, such as advances in medicine for example, on other points, it is debated.
More and more artistic circles are starting to be threatened by AI, such as voice actors. In the world of video games, it is also divisive, particularly on the use of AI for video game development. Sony has clearly already made its choice and will start to use it to speed up certain stages of the production of their video games on PS5 and PS5 Pro.
PlayStation games developed at with the help of AI
It is in its latest corporate report, on the sixteenth page, that Sony confirms the objective of strengthening “technologies that can help creators maximize the value of their property intellectual property in an efficient and high-quality manner, including detection and capture as well as real-time 3D processing, AI and machine learning, and that these technologies will help distribute its intellectual property "quickly and at low cost to a wider range of fans." Simply put, the company wants to use AI to help developers optimize certain tasks and save time.
In the same report, Sony confirms that AI has already been used in the development of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (last year) for machine learning of speech recognition software in certain languages. Thanks to this, Insomniac Games (the developers) were able to easily automatically synchronize the subtitles with the lines of each character. This therefore made it possible to shorten “considerably the subtitling process”.
For the moment, there is therefore no question of replacing developers to code games, but rather of using AI to help certain employees to save time on various tasks. But Sony does not intend to stop there. In the rest of the report, the Japanese company confirms that it is designing its own volumetric capture studio. The latter will allow 3D data to be generated from people and places to render high-quality images.
On this second part, things could become more problematic in the future and would allow Sony to save a lot of time, certainly, but to the benefit of many employees and developers who could thus lose their jobs. We hope that this use of AI will remain limited and that it will not replace the work of people who give their all to offer us incredible experiences.
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