this seems dumb to me. spend dumptrucks full of money on AI, when they could have just included a ‘skip this part’ button that does the same thing?
Why would they make an easy solution to a problem they’ve created when they could sell you a convoluted one that makes use of everyone’s favourite buzz word?
lol “look at us! we’re using ai toooooo!!!”
get fucked, sony
Couldn’t agree more.
Old games just had cheat codes
I love patent illustrations.
Needs more piss filter, distortions and random nonsense. Then it will truly be AI!
That’s clearly two separate paths
A) Get Me Off B) Get Me Your Fucking Mail ing List
I’m 100% certain I’ve seen this in a game ages ago, but without the dumb AI part.
Titanfall 2 definitely had the ghost thing.
I feel like that was a thing in one of the mario games?
Hmm, possible. Paper?
I wonder if the much more sensible strategy of just making the ghost a recording of a person beating it, instead of shoehorning in AI, would infringe on this patent.
Thankfully that’s unlikely due to such an approach having a completely different implementation.
Didn’t Nintendo already do this? Seems like an invalid patent.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/wii/960544-new-super-mario-bros-wii/answers/130039-super-guide
Isn’t this a Nintendo thing from like the 2000s? Why would you even need to use AI when you could just use a recording of one of your testers doing it or (crazy thought) just using a “skip this” button? This seems like a dumb way to shoe-horn AI into something that doesn’t make sense.
why not just have an AI play the whole game for you? sounds great /s
Lookout twitch streamers AI is going to take your job too!
So … they patented NPCs?
Good, now nobody else can implement this idiotic system and I will continue to just not buy Sony games.
Yet another reason to avoid Sony.
Let me guess, you have to pay a monthly subscription fee for this and if you want the free tier, it would just require you to play all games with an internet connection to ensure you aren’t doing something you shouldn’t and collecting your juicy data in the meantime. This fucking timeline is almost like the fallout timeline
Well that’s much easier than just designing a good game
God forbid someone having to actually figure something out on their own…that’s practically abuse
I feel like they do not understand why people play games.
Also this thing is gonna get exploited for a cheat bot tout suite
Player: “Uh, hey… wouldn’t beating this section be easier if you didn’t jump directly into the lava pit?”
AI Ghost: “LOL, you’re right!! 😂😅🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️ I’ll try to incorporate your feed back into future attempts to complete this section!”
<Proceeds to beeline for the lava pit and jump in>
“I’m sorry, I’ve failed you. I’m trash.” <Corrupts your saves, for every game, including cloud saves. Bricks your system>
How can they patent it? I’ve seen something very similar more than 20 years ago. AI is a keyword here? Like you can patent everything as long as it’s AI?
Yeah, it’s especially funny to me, because the word “AI” has been used in gaming to describe the behavior code for NPCs since forever. And in this case, they actually even happen to refer the same thing in the end. At best, it’s a different strategy for getting to that same end result.
