Generative AI plays "zero part" in GTA 6, Take-Two boss confirms, but the company do have "hundreds" of AI "pilots and implementations" on the go

"We're already seeing instances wherever generative AI tools are driving costs and clip efficiencies"

Generative AI has played "zero part" successful Rockstar Games' instauration of GTA 6, Take-Two CEOman Strauss Zelnick has said astatine the company's latest fiscal numbers get-together, wherever helium besides indicated the game's inactive connected to initially merchandise this November. Well, connected consoles astatine least. Though, backmost successful the AI front, the Z bloke besides revealed that Take-Two person "hundreds of pilots and implementations" connected the spell involving the tech.

"On the taxable of AI, I've been enthusiastic since the precise beginning," Zelnick told RPS' ironed formal shirt-wearing firm acquaintances astatine GamesIndustry.biz successful a chat astir Take-Two's latest net call. "This company's products person ever been built with instrumentality learning and artificial intelligence. We've really ever been a person successful the space, and close present we person hundreds of pilots and implementations crossed our company, including wrong our studios. And we're already seeing instances wherever generative AI tools are driving costs and clip efficiencies."

That said, the exec did marque definite to instrumentality to his established enactment connected the arguable tech, emphasising that helium sees it arsenic a instrumentality alternatively than immoderate infernal magic container from which fully-formed originative projects tin spew. "Do I deliberation tools by themselves make large amusement properties? No, there's nary grounds that that's the lawsuit and it won't beryllium the lawsuit successful the future," helium continued. "Specifically with regards to GTA 6, Generative AI has zero portion successful what Rockstar Games is building. Their worlds are handcrafted. That's what differentiates them."

This latest circular of questions being pointed astatine Zelnick astir AI travel Google's deployment of Project Genie, an AI prototype that lets radical make "interactive worlds" which enactment similar playable games. Well, if by playable games you mean utterly shite clones and/or 2 infinitesimal glorified GIFs of a quality walking around. Project Genie's rollout led the stock prices of a fig of crippled companies - including Take-Two and Witcher developers CD Projekt - to drop, 1 would presume due to the fact that plentifulness of shareholders and different wealth men are brainless fools who don't cognize what goes into making games.

Hence Zelnick and galore of his exec kinspeople adopting positions which hedge their bets erstwhile it comes to adopting this benignant of tech arsenic a magic legume with the word' ratio booster' written connected it successful crayon, if not a magic legume that does the full job. At slightest GTA 6 appears to beryllium packing nary up of its archetypal accomplishment connected November 19th.

Not that the game's without bubbling controversy. Legal proceedings betwixt Rockstar and the developers they fired past twelvemonth rumble on. The institution person accused the fired unit of leaking info astir the game, portion the unit and their allies astatine the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain national person accused Rockstar of union-busting.