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Game Development in the Age of AI: A New Frontier
This week in Innovative AI
Innovative AI Shorts:
Balancing Innovation and Sustainability: The Path to Greener Generative AI
From threat to triumph: How to leverage AI for professional success
‘I hope I’m wrong’: the co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it
Executives’ Highlight: Game changer - How AI is Reshaping Interactive Entertainment in the Game Industry
Prompts for your Organization: “/imagine: double exposures on a Fujifilm X-T4, capturing a sailing boat at a harbor in the 18th century and the surrounding scenery of people loading the boat, using a 35mm lens for a wider perspective.;
“Provide me 3 ideas to build customer loyalty for a restaurant located in the center of New York?”
Overview: Center for Deep Tech Innovation Events
Tools to try out: Perplexity.ai
Innovative AI Shorts
Balancing Innovation and Sustainability: The Path to Greener Generative AI
Generative AI is revolutionizing the way businesses create content, but its implementation comes with environmental and financial costs. The process of inference, where AI models analyze new data based on their training, is energy-intensive and expensive. To achieve sustainable AI, businesses can adopt strategies such as using energy-efficient hardware and cloud resources, model optimization, edge computing, renewable energy sources, and pruning and quantization techniques. However, challenges include maintaining quality while reducing energy consumption, cost implications, scaling up sustainability, data privacy and security concerns, and regulatory compliance. Collaboration between governments, businesses, researchers, and technology providers is crucial to driving innovation and developing sustainable solutions. By integrating ethical considerations, businesses can lead the way in creating a more sustainable AI future.
From threat to triumph: How to leverage AI for professional success
Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed industries and had a profound impact on people's lives in the past decade. While it poses a threat to some job roles, 81% of office workers believe that AI improves their job performance. This guide aims to help individuals capitalize on the opportunities presented by AI. It suggests strategies such as continuous learning, cultivating soft skills, collaborating with AI as a partner, future-proofing careers, and ensuring job security through cybersecurity and ethical leadership. By adapting to change and embracing AI, individuals can excel in a future where humans and machines work together.
‘I hope I’m wrong’: the co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it
In a thought-provoking article published in The Guardian, DeepMind co-founder, Mustafa Suleyman, shares his concerns about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence (AI) and how it could drastically reshape life as we know it. Suleyman expresses an urgent hope to be proven wrong, as he highlights the risks associated with AI technology being used in areas such as healthcare, finance, and even warfare. He emphasizes the need for careful regulation and ethical decision-making to mitigate the negative impacts AI could have on individuals and society. Suleyman's article serves as a reminder of the responsibility we have in shaping the future of AI and the importance of ensuring it is utilized in a way that benefits humanity.
Game changer - How AI is Reshaping Interactive Entertainment in the Game Industry
In the early days of gaming, characters and scenarios were basic and repetitive. Today, AI is dramatically changing this landscape. Games are now starting to integrate characters that can “think”, react, and even learn from players' actions. This shift, however, is not just about creating smarter characters, but also about creating more realistic game environments.
Especially, when combined with Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), AI can take gaming to a whole new dimension. First endeavors are games like "Halo", where AI does not just control enemies, but adapts to the player's strategy. Further, with the introduction of neural interfaces, games can now be tailored to individual players, adjusting the storyline and challenges based on the player's decisions and reactions. These personalizations make every game session unique.
Enhancing Player Experience with AI
Remember the times when games had static backgrounds and predictable character movements? Those days are also becoming history, as AI-driven games adapt and evolve. Apart from games aiming to trigger “retro effects”, most games nowadays are aiming to create ever-changing environments for their users. For example, in "No Man's Sky", AI helps generate vast universes, ensuring that players always find new planets and species. Each planet has its own ecosystem, weather patterns, and challenges, all dynamically generated using AI algorithms. Hence, every exploration feels fresh and unpredictable.
Apart from the environment, also the characters are changing. In modern games, characters are powered by AI to have their own personalities and memories. In "Red Dead Redemption 2" for instance, if you help an NPC (Non-Playable Character) in one part of the game, they might return later to aid or thank you. These characters do not just follow a script; they react to the world around them. If it starts raining, they'll seek shelter. If they hear a gunshot, they'll react with fear or curiosity. This dynamic interaction makes players feel more connected to the game world. Their actions have lasting consequences, making gameplay more engaging and rewarding. It's like the game is listening and responding to the player, creating a two-way conversation between the player and the world he is creating through his actions.
One example of how these two-way conversations might look like ist presented by Nvidia. With NVIDIA's ACE, characters can be designed to have natural conversations with players, making the game world feel even more alive. Here, depending on the input of the player, the NPC character will provide answers that were not predefined but generated based on the inputs given. This means that NPCs will be able to actually “understand” player inputs, express emotions, and provide tailored answers.
Apart from character interaction, AI can also assist in designing levels by generating realistic terrains and even composing music. For instance, the background music of a game could adapt to each action of a player - not based on predefined triggers, but composed in real-time by an AI.
These possibilities and more to come put developers in a unique position. They have the chance to create games with a level of interaction that has never been done before. Therefore, they can even use AI to handle repetitive tasks, allowing them to focus on storytelling, character development, and creating memorable gaming experiences.
Besides traditional gaming
While it is understandable that traditional gaming is not a topic interesting to everyone, the recent developments described can have a positive impact far beyond the traditional gaming sector. Think about the integration of “NPCs” that are able to react to the input given and the development of the user in an educational setting. Like the first games for PCs in the 90s, AI-enhanced education software/games could positively enhance the way we learn and experience things. Imagine walking through a virtually created world in the times of the French Revolution with an NPC that can answer your questions on historical facts and figures herein or float through a simulation of the blood circulation to better understand the processes taking place.
The opportunities to leverage AI improvements in games are manifold, hence it is up to us to explore and foster them.
Prompts for your Organization
Midjourney to show how a picture with a certain camera and properties would look like
“/imagine: double exposures on a Fujifilm X-T4, capturing a sailing boat at a harbor in the 18th century and the surrounding scenery of people loading the boat, using a 35mm lens for a wider perspective. Play with different exposure settings and shutter speeds to create a dynamic and surreal composition. –q 2 –s 750 –v 5“
ChatGPT for building customer loyalty
“Provide me 3 ideas to build customer loyalty for a restaurant located in the center of New York?”
Overview: Center for Deep Tech Innovation Events
As some of our readers might know, we offer a series of webinars on the topic of AI (and other technologies in the near future).
Below you find a list of upcoming webinars:
Wednesday, October 4, 2023, 4:00 p.m. (CET) - Prompt Engineering for Business Transformation: A Workshop
more to come!
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Tools to Try out: Perplexity.ai
Perplexity AI is an AI-powered search engine and chatbot designed to provide accurate and comprehensive answers to user queries using advanced technologies like natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning. Founded in 2022 by Andy Konwinski, Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, and Johnny Ho, who met at Google AI, the company aims to democratize access to knowledge. The platform's key features include real-time web search, access to PDFs, citation of sources for its answers, and a user-friendly interface.
We tried Perplexity.AI and found that the application is quite good for generating an initial overview of topics one is interested in. Even though we have to say that some of the information given to us were not quite accurate - very technical topics. Nevertheless, we think Perplexity.AI is an interesting tool to have a look at and to try out.
Eventually, we come to the end of this newsletter. Stay tuned for the upcoming editions, where we will keep informing you about the latest developments and applications of AI for business and beyond.
Midjourney to show how a picture with a certain camera and properties would look like
ChatGPT for building customer loyalty
