In recent days, the impressive videos generated by Sora have caused a stir: OpenAI’s highly advanced technology is not only capable of creating incredibly realistic videos, but also entire video games!
In the latest technical document published by OpenAI, the programmers of the now famous Artificial Intelligence research laboratory have illustrated the creative potential of the new Sora technology, a generative AI model so advanced that it is capable of revolutionizing the world of video games ( and not only).
Contrary to what the community hypothesized by observing the very first videos made by Sora, the new OpenAI technology does not limit itself to ‘creating animations on the spot’ starting from command strings and prompts but is capable, according to its creators, of “simulate artificial processes and complex digital worlds like those of modern video games. Sora can shape the world of an interactive experience like Minecraft and, at the same time, control the player, reproducing everything with highly faithful in-game dynamics.”
As explained by Dr. Jim Fan by NVIDIA, OpenAI’s Sora is different from other generative AI-based models because it is a “true data-driven physics engine, rather than a mere image generator. Sora performs thousands of calculations to predict how an object interacts with its environment and uses that data to create a three-dimensional virtual model of an interactive world.”
Already from the first tests conducted by OpenAI and by the content creators who were able to preview this advanced generative Artificial Intelligence, it is possible to understand its enormous potential in the gaming sector: the video that we can admire in the tweet at the bottom of the news does not come from a ‘real’ build of Minecraft (complete with Ray Tracing lighting), but was created ‘on the spot’ from the preliminary version of Sora drawing on the enormous amount of data used to ‘train’ this AI model.
While waiting to know the future developments of Sora, we leave you with our in-depth analysis on Artificial Intelligence and the future of video games.