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Google's vision for AI 'living games' sounds awful, but inevitable

Google engineers described how Gemini 1.5 and Vertex AI will help make games "much more human" with hundreds of thousands of NPC chatbots with memories.

Dan Zaratsian, a Google AI/ML solutions architect, later described a vision of hundreds of thousands of GenAI-powered NPCs in a single world with individual character profiles, remembered player interactions, and dialogue with specific rulesets like the game's lore and history. Can future versions of Gemini actually be trusted to come up with updates that'll keep users engaged and on par with the customized, carefully conceived seasons and expansions that gamers have grown used to? A public-domain Sherlock Holmes RPG is fine, but Google can't monitor if companies start feeding Gemini copyrighted material for "inspiration" that blurs the line with theft.

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