Every year at the turn of the year, Square Enix publishes a letter reporting on the next year’s themes. This time the focus is also on the development of video games using artificial intelligence.
Every year at the turn of the year, Square Enix publishes a report with the most important topics for the next year. This year the letter was written by Square Enix President Takashi Kiryu. In a separate paragraph, he also writes about the use of AI at Square Enix in the new year.
How should AI be used? Square Enix wants to be aggressive in the application of AI and other modern technologies. They particularly focus on the release of new applications and functions.
In the short term, you want to increase development productivity, i.e. develop faster with the same number of developers. People also want to use artificial intelligence for marketing. It sounds like you want to hand over tasks to chatbots like ChatGPT.
In the long term, Square Enix wants to use artificial intelligence to create completely new forms of content for consumers, i.e. to produce true innovations.
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Is artificial intelligence just a label for Square Enix? Of course, you can’t judge that based on the letter, but what is striking is that the 2022 letter also wrote about NFTs, the metaverse and the blockchain, all things that were increasingly considered wicked last year.
Meanwhile, intelligent chatbots like ChatGPT are the new hot thing in the tech market and Square Enix, as a public company, would certainly do well to mention AI in their letter.
Square Enix will probably, actually use artificial intelligence. However, the CEO’s letter does not yet suggest any major leaps in development. First of all, AI is probably used as a tool.
Is there already use of artificial intelligence in video games? So far there are no games that use AI to really redesign entire processes. Similar to what Square Enix wrote in their letter, this is a long-term goal for game developers. First, existing AI tools are used to accelerate certain processes.
However, Square Enix is not alone in this. Other companies like Sony are also moving forward with AI developments in their game studios. Sony has already announced this for Destiny 2 at its subsidiary Bungie.