Artificial intelligence represents a significant transformation for the video game sector.

Video Gaming seems to be on the verge of a Revolution. Indeed, the rise of artificial intelligence is opening new avenues for immersion and creativity in the gaming industry, but it also poses significant challenges for the future of jobs and intellectual property.

This dilemma is the subject of many debates at Gamescom, a professional gaming industry event. Highly responsive conversational robots, automatic generation of images, code, or even game scenarios— the gaming sector is increasingly adopting these systems that leverage artificial neural networks, enabling enhanced learning capabilities.

With a short video presentation in May, the American electronics giant Nvidia introduced ACE, a program for developers that enables them to "deploy intelligent characters" in their games. No longer limited to interactions consisting of a few lines of automatic dialogue, players can now converse with in-game characters equipped with a microphone, thanks to AI that operates on the same principle as ChatGPT. Like Nvidia, numerous companies in the industry are advancing in this area to make games more immersive. However, this could potentially threaten certain roles within studios, such as concept artists, whose job was precisely to translate designers' directives into images.

Furthermore, the use of these technologies may encounter the delicate issue of intellectual property. AI is trained on pre-existing images or texts, which are sometimes protected. Currently, the legal status of images generated by AI is not clear, but still, more changes are to come. An artificial intelligence engineer known as Julien Millet believes that "AI is truly a game-changer for the video game industry".

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