Xbox's chief financial offer has said he's "excited" about the possibilities of AI in game development.
As first reported by TechRaptor, Xbox CFO Tim Stuart spoke at the Wells Fargo TMT Summit earlier this week and addressed the use of AI in game development. "On the developer side, you think about the millions and millions of dollars in a game spent on localization, script, how you think about players moving from point A to point B and you have non-player characters have dialogue.
"AI can take care of all that," Stuart stated at the event. "You now say, 'I need the player to get from A to B,' and instead of having to write thousands of lines of scripting or code, you just have the AI get you from A to B—things like localization and putting things in new languages.
"When we think about game testing, a million AI bots can run through a level of Minecraft and find where players get stuck, where they spend money, how they think about the level. So, this is - pun intended - game-changing for the developer," the Xbox CFO concluded.
"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."
