Tim Sweeney predicts

Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney believes that small teams will soon be able to use AI tips to create Nintendo's masterpiece video game Zelda: selda of the Wild of the Wild.

Talk to IGN in Epic's Unreal 2025 (CD Projekt reveals amazing Witcher 4 technology demonstrationSweeney said AI tips would be the “basic part” of the game's engine and would lead to “nothing new game genres that were invented before, without it, it would be impossible or practical without it.”

“Every major advance in technology has led to the rise of new games,” Sweeney explained.

“I remember 3D games became possible and then Doom and Wolfenstein introduced 3D shooters. The Royal Genre itself only shows enough performance on the hardware and engine, and you can have a hundred players in a single game space.

“AI characters give you the possibility of infinite conversations with very simple creators, which means small teams will be able to create games with a huge number of characters, huge and interactive worlds. What will a 10-person team need to do to build games like Zelda, such as AI conversations, and you’re just doing all the features, but writing some of them constantly?

Of course, Sweeney's passion for AI is not a secret, and Epic Games are all in it. AI Darth Vader hits Fortnite last month First of all, the battle of the great royal. He can provide you with serenades, join and leave the squad at will, react smartly to the players, send out improvisational conversations, summarizing game events, and warn players if something is going to go down.

Darth Vader He died in September 2024 At the age of 93. The AI ​​version of his voice is powered by Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash model and Elevenlabs' Flash v2.5, and is used with the Jones Family license.

This sparked debate on the ethics of generating AI, especially when it comes to NPCs like Darth Vader, which restores the voices of dead actors. However, Sweeney believes that despite some shortcomings, AI technology ultimately brings net benefits to society.

“I see AI as a technology that ultimately is to make human creators create things more efficiently,” he said. “I think that's a good thing. Unfortunately, the emergence of modern AI is tainted by a lot of content from other companies and individuals on the web. But as a basic technology, this should be a multiplicity and multiplication of our capabilities.

“Of course, having an independent team able to build bigger, better games means that it can also enable the AAA team to build amazing, huge games and polish it further. So, I think as everyone is learning new skills, as you are at the highest level here, I think we will have anything to improve our lives as any other technology evolves.

No rebound to Ai Darth Vader is avoided Epic announces plans to get people to create their own AI NPCs in Fortnite.

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