has revealed it from his Twitter account Daniel Ahmad, specialized in the analysis of the video game industry in the Asian area. The Chinese company NetEase, a service provider that also develops mobile games such as the recent ‘Immortal Devil’, has revealed that will use the capabilities of ChatGPT in an upcoming MMO, ‘Justice Online Mobile’.
Thanks to this system, players will be able to chat with non-player characters, and they will react to instructions and dialogues rationally and carry out actions that will impact the further development of the game. According to Ahmad, the possibility of chatting by voice in the same way that it is done with real players will be implemented in video games, and it will be possible to dialogue with NPCs also through voice, or with text. NetEase is the first company to start applying these possibilities of AIs to video games.
NetEase has shown some investors a couple of videos about how this implementation would work. In one of them a player deliberately gets involved in the relationship between a pair of intelligent NPC couples, typing to express opposition to their marriage, which ends in a complaint from the NPC couples. At another point, when the player poses as a female player to cause the couple to argue, they suddenly start fighting.
In another video, two female NPCs are talking about long-distance relationships, and the pessimistic attitude of the player interacting with both affects the emotions of the NPCs. One of them has memories of her, and when the player meets her again after a while, he says that they broke up two months ago. The use of AI, as reported by NetEase, will be extended to other aspects of the games that are not so obvious, such as the generation of missions, the creation of content or the customization of characters.
ChatGPT has proven to be one of the most versatile applications that AIs have right now, while its tentacles continue to expand to places closer to our daily lives, such as productivity applications. At the moment, ChatGPT (after its parent company, OpenAI, received a million-dollar investment from Microsoft) is already sneaking into our browsers, which makes it clear to what extent this technology is going to have more and more everyday uses. Helping to bring credible life to digital entities such as video games is just one more step.
