this seems dumb to me. spend dumptrucks full of money on AI, when they could have just included a ‘skip this part’ button that does the same thing?
Why would they make an easy solution to a problem they’ve created when they could sell you a convoluted one that makes use of everyone’s favourite buzz word?
lol “look at us! we’re using ai toooooo!!!”
get fucked, sony
Couldn’t agree more.
I love patent illustrations.
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Needs more piss filter, distortions and random nonsense. Then it will truly be AI!
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I’m 100% certain I’ve seen this in a game ages ago, but without the dumb AI part.
I feel like that was a thing in one of the mario games?
Hmm, possible. Paper?
Isn’t this a Nintendo thing from like the 2000s? Why would you even need to use AI when you could just use a recording of one of your testers doing it or (crazy thought) just using a “skip this” button? This seems like a dumb way to shoe-horn AI into something that doesn’t make sense.
why not just have an AI play the whole game for you? sounds great /s
Lookout twitch streamers AI is going to take your job too!
I don’t think this will be a joke for long.
Good, now nobody else can implement this idiotic system and I will continue to just not buy Sony games.
How can they patent it? I’ve seen something very similar more than 20 years ago. AI is a keyword here? Like you can patent everything as long as it’s AI?
Yeah, it’s especially funny to me, because the word “AI” has been used in gaming to describe the behavior code for NPCs since forever. And in this case, they actually even happen to refer the same thing in the end. At best, it’s a different strategy for getting to that same end result.
If I need help I will look up a video or a guide. I dont need a fucking AI.
Didn’t they have ‘drivatars’ in that racing game years ago at this point? An AI imitation of a player should not be patentable.
So … they patented NPCs?
You can’t patent game mechanics, afaik
You can patent pretty much anything in a lot of countries because the patent office officials don’t pay any attention. Probably it’d get thrown out in court, but that doesn’t really matter to a patent troll who will be able to make loads of money from settlements that never go to court because settling is cheaper.
WB patented the nemesis system
People patented how to get jpegs of your camera to your PC by file transfer. Trolls in my opinion.
Nintendo says otherwise.
Uggghhh. Sony was already the worst with the annoying fucking nagging if the player takes a micro-second to look at anything that isn’t a button to the next level/mission/etc. “I think this panel is part of a puzzle!” “Yeah, I fucking know that already. I’m just taking a second to look at the other 99% of the game you assholes spent years designing. Shut up!”
I wonder if in the future this sort of functionality would become common place.
I could actually see this being useful in some complex strategy / business sims for querying more convoluted or unintuitive gameplay mechanic. But it would have been done well, more of a dynamic Wiki query tool powered by a local LLM than Sony’s approach.
