The use of AI in games has so far been largely limited to scaling existing content, but according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, the days of entirely AI-generated games are not far off.
Huang mentioned this in an interview with Tom's Hardware after the presentation of the Blackwell B200 graphics processor at Nvidia's earlier GPU Technology Conference 2024 (GTC 2024).
When asked how close the world is to the point where every pixel will be generated in real time, and how he sees games in that space, Huang replied: “I think less than ten years away.”
“We’re probably two years into (that 10-year span). So I would say that within the next five to ten this will largely become a reality,” Huang said.
PC Gamer believes that fully AI-generated games will be a completely different process than what we currently see in the field of AI-assisted content generation, and will require serious hardware power.
For example, the most powerful graphics card today, the RTX 4090, is not well suited for generating real-time AI content because even creating a single AI video requires multiple GPUs and hours of computation.
Meanwhile, Nvidia and other companies are considering giving NPCs artificial intelligence as a new way to interact with game worlds (see Ubisoft's Neo NPC project).
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