Artificial Intelligence will never advance to the point where it’s able to make a better Grand Theft Auto video game than a dedicated team of real people, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has said.
Speaking during the publisher’s latest earnings call, Strauss revealed that he’s “really excited” about the current progress made by AI technology, and reckons that game development costs will eventually be reduced due to the advancements in tools being created on that front.
Specifically, the executive was asked about technology such as ChatGPT, and touched on his own scepticism surrounding tech hype and that while AI stands for Artificial Intelligence, “there is no such thing as artificial intelligence.”
ChatGPT is today’s hand calculator. When I was a kid, there was no such thing, I hate to admit, but it’s true, so I had to do math longhand. And then hand calculators came along and parents were up in arms and thought, ‘Oh kids won’t have to learn math anymore,’ and the answer is yes, you still have to learn math, turns out, you absolutely have to learn math, but you have a tool that makes it easier to do. And ChatGPT is the same thing.
We are ushering in a very exciting era of new tools and they’re going to allow our teams and our competitors’ teams to do really interesting things more efficiently, so we’re going to want to do more, we’re going to want to be even more creative. And no, it’s not going to allow someone to say, ‘Please develop the competitor to Grand Theft Auto that’s better than Grand Theft Auto’, and then they just send it out and ship it digitally and that will be that. People will try, but that won’t happen.
Elsewhere in the company’s latest earnings call, the publisher revealed that it is looking to make various layoffs in order to save some $50 million, despite the fact Grand Theft Auto V has sold and utterly ridiculous amount of copies.
[Source – IGN]