Xbox CFO "excited" by AI believes it can handle localization, scripting, and more: "AI can take care of all that"
Nov. 29, 2023The comments haven’t been received well by players
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Xbox’s chief financial offer has said he’s “excited” about the possibilities of AI in game development.
Stuart also believes AI can open the door for more people to become developers. If there are 100,000 game developers around the world right now, the CFO said, AI can generate code and art assets, opening the path for effectively anyone to become one. Stuart said this can take the number of game developers from 100,000 to north of one million.
Right now, there haven’t been many noticeable game developer reactions to Stuart’s comments. You only need to look back over the last year, however, to see a litany of examples of high-profile game developers pushing back against AI. Earlier this year, for example,Hideo Kojima said humans should be above AI, and shouldn’t replace humans as the creators of art.
Over onResetEra, players themselves aren’t best pleased with Stuart’s position. “Using AI to localize a game is all you need to know how serious MS thinks of international audiences, which is zero,” one player writes, pointing to how human beings are essential for capturing the language intricacies across localization.
“Ah yes, replace writers and translators with a machine. I’m sure the results will be good,” adds another comment. “I feel like these examples are exclusively targeting people who don’t know how games are actually made,” writes another commenter. “They might make sense to someone whose primary response to you telling them you’re a game developer is ‘Oh so you play games all day?’ But nobody else really.”
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