Halo dev 343 Industries is hiring a generative AI lead to "help build innovative gaming experiences powered by AI"
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343 Industries, the studio in charge of all things Halo, is hiring an AI lead.
343 Industries’Senior AI Engineer rolewants someone to “help build innovative gaming experiences powered by AI, bringing the promise of new technologies to reality,” and “design and implement scalable and efficient solutions that leverage generative AI and ML to augment in-game experiences and to improve how we make games.”
For context, machine learning technologies are pretty standard tools used in game development - adaptive difficulty or procedurally generated levels are just two examples of this. It’s the “generative AI” part that’s proven to be controversial, both in this specific job listing and in the wider games industry as a whole.
Debates around generative AI’s use in art, voice acting, music, and games struggle with how the tech might affect job security, whether it can ever lead to work as ‘creative’ as what humans can achieve, and concerns around plagiarism, since AI needs to pull from pre-existing sources in order to output pretty much anything.
We won’t see how this affected future Halo games for a while, though, since the studio has yet to even announce what Halo’s future looks like. One rumor suggested that 343 Industries were working onsome form of Halo: Combat Evolved remakeinstead of another mainline shooter, but regardless, the team seems to have largelymoved on from major Halo Infinite updateswhile “working on brand new projects.”
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