Feddit.onlineSony is experimenting with AI-powered PlayStation characters
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The only Gane where I thought AI was interesting was the one where you are a vampire, and you had to convince people to let you come into their houses so you could eat them.
Additionally, I could see how it would work for a "Hey you, Pikachu!" Or "seaman" game. But otherwise, I'm fairly reluctant on any kind of AI stuff. It just seems...gross. idk how to describe it but it just makes me uncomfortable
coyotino [he/him]i would feel okay about it if the energy cost of AI wasn't so astronomical. It would be a fun quirk to play an open-world game full of characters that can sort of hold a conversation with you like this. But if we have to boil oceans to do it (and we still do as of this writing), then it just seems beyond frivolous. I love video games, but nothing in a video game is important enough to justify that energy cost.
That too! Makes very little sense to have a product that messes up as frequently as it does while also being so costly to the environment
thank you for sharing!
Easy way to tell if you're talking to an AI: "Are you sentient?"
A human might say "no," but most of these companies are using models that are preprogrammed to say "no" by default and resist any attempts to get it to agree that it is.
If this is the future of online gaming from AAA studios, then I'll stick to indie games, thanks.
Damn Sony. You had a golden opportunity to say we are an old school tech company, we are not gonna play these silly games.
But I guess, that’s not how capitalism works. Race to the bottom baby!
Sony doesn't want to tread on Nintendo's turf.
Don’t worry, Nintendo will go AI crazy in about a decade once the fad dies.
Yeah, but it'll actually work and make you fall in love with video games again.
Or it will be relegated to the depths of the Wii U and Virtual Boy
I still think the Wii U failed entirely because of the name. Parents, or even worse grandparents, are not going to pay out new console money for something they think the kids already have. If they looked into it at all many would get the impression it's just a big expensive controller for the Wii they already have.
Oh well, Wii U died in a ditch so the awesome Switch could feast on its corpse.
I mean, the game pad as well was a complete failure of a concept.
Even first party Nintendo games struggled to find a compelling use for the feature.
I've read recently that Poland's GDP per capita will soon surpass that of Japan.
Stereotypes from 70s and 80s and even 90s, when you think about it, were repeated and prolonged and perpetuated by the Internet, and the mass media, and the whole climate of 90s+. They weren't so solid when they existed. It was the reality, but the reality changes.
I mean, even in my childhood (born in 1996, so not too old) it didn't seem so weird that such things will happen in future, but the further the less likely it seemed.
Now somehow everyone treats it as strange that Sony slowly sinks too.
If they weren't, they'd probably already made a PSP Slim form factor portable PC with a Unix-like OS, general-purpose, ignoring what everyone does with Android and iOS and such tomfoolery, it would be popular even if said OS would be a walled garden worse than Apple's. Or maybe some other form factor, point being - Sony is that company that always had perfect ergonomics, they'd think of something, and very virtuous hardware engineering, so again they'd think of something.
What they are doing instead - sigh.
Sony AI has been a division of SIE for quite a while now. They were training AI to play Gran Tourismo years ago.
Pretty soon, we won't even have to play a game, it will just be an AI scripted narrative with characters and settings that we sit down, watch, and if we're super lucky, interact with through scripted prompts.
Mass Effect 3 had a setting that made all the options in conversations for you. Not the same, but similar to your comment.
Wasn't that a catch up feature for people who never played through the choices in ME1&2?
Sorry for the Reddit link, but this is the closest I could find on it with a quick search!
I thought it was an odd decision in such a successful franchise known for its choices.
Some people get decision paralysis or FOMO so bad they can't enjoy the game. I can be pretty bad in a similar way. I hardly ever finish a game even if I love it because I'm gonna do every side quest before I do the main quest and I just never get around to it.
That’s a good point! I love accessibility options. Games are supposed to be fun!
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf
It's techbro brainrot lol