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Sony is experimenting with AI-powered PlayStation characters, ironically chooses Horizon's Aloy to demonstrate


A new leak has revealed PlayStation maker Sony is working on AI-driven characters, including Aloy from the Horizon series.

Watch on YouTube In the footage, Raghoebardajal asks Aloy a number of questions, such as "how are you", to which the character replies with AI-powered voice and facial movements that she is ok, but "dealing with a sore throat". As for how it has been created, The Verge reports this demo uses OpenAI's Whisper for speech-to-text, as well as GPT-4 and Llama 3 for decision-making, and Sony's proprietary Emotional Voice Synthesis for speech generation. Aloy shoots at an advancing machine in Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores DLC.

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