Blizzard has registered a patent for an AI to create the art for its video games.
Blizzard wants to use artificial intelligence to create game art
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The Artificial intelligence It evolves faster than we think. You just have to see how ChatGPT floods the latest news with its progress and questioning its benefits. In video games, AI is a very important element so that the NPC characters or the environment have a closest behavior to reality. Artificial intelligence also has on a creative point and it seems that Blizzard wants to take advantage of all its possibilities. The studio has registered a new patent to create a Artificial Intelligence system to create art of their games.
there are already many smart tools to create images from scratch. images that imagine a harry potter anime o The Last of Us. It seems that Blizzard liked the idea, since it has requested a patent for an AI to generate illustrations that they can use in their games. This does not necessarily confirm that Blizzard will apply this method in its next releases, but it is interested in explore other systems hitherto unknown to develop games.
A creative AI to generate game illustrations
Artificial intelligence is becoming more and more established in video games
The patent explains how would this technology work with video games. The main idea is that the AI is able to emulate new images from an artistic style which has previously been designed by Blizzard. This means that the study would give some guidelines so that the technology build a 3D model from that concept. That would involve building a skeleton, textures, and other design details. Although it is not something definitive, it can create a debate for a possible substitution of human labor in the artistic section of video games.
Similar things have already been seen in the video game world. Modders use a lot of Artificial Intelligence tools, there is even a Minecraft mod that allows you to build with ChatGPT. There would also be an extensive debate about the use of copyrighted images that could be diluted with the use of this technology. This technology is advancing so fast that could change the way you make video games as we know it and companies are already taking the first steps towards that future.
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