Sony Experiments AI-powered PlayStation Characters
It was reported on Tuesday that Sony is working on a prototype AI-powered version of one its PlayStation game characters.
An internal video from Sony's PlayStation group with The Verge was leaked and it indicated an AI-powered version of Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West.
The video was shortly removed from YouTube due to a copyright claim from Muso, a copyrights company which advertises Sony Interactive Entertainment.
The video is narrated by Sharwin Raghoebardajal, a director of software engineering at Sony Interactive Entertainment who works on video game technology for Sony's PlayStation Studios Advanced Technology Group.
The technology demo uses OpenAI's whisper for speech-to-text, and both GPT-4 and Llama 3 for conversations and decision making.
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