Like everybody in tech nowadays, Sony and its PlayStation brand have AI on their minds.
In the video, Sonys director of software engineering, Sharwin Raghoebardajal, talked with fake-Aloy with voice prompts.
Thankfully, the AI wasnt trying to replicate voice actor Ashley Burch.
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Instead, it conversed with an unnervingly robotic tone while its mouth moved with inhuman over-emphasis for each syllable.
Fake-Aloy incorporatedAI-generated speech fromOpenAIs Whisper model.
Its speech was generated withLlama 3 from Metaand OpenAIs GPT-4 large language model.
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Does Sony Imagine That Players Want to Talk to an AI Aloy?
Raghoebardajal said this is a glimpse of whats possible, though the demo doesnt exactly leave the viewer spellbound.
Theoriginal videowas taken down by a company affiliated with Sony, according to The Verge.
you might findother mirrorson Reddit and elsewhere.
Its nothing we havent seen before.
Nvidia has beenexperimenting with AI NPCsfor well over a year.
A later demo shown off in the middle of 2024 involved more constraints.
That tool generated an Overwatch-like hero shooter with control-mapped powers and timer-based ultimates.
The developers stopped working on that game in 2021 after it failed to gain traction.
Would an AI do any better?
Why dont we ask the developers offellow hero shooterConcord?
Players can tell if something is done by a professional versus a bot.
These deep learning models are better when you dont know theyre there.
This move is part of therecently revealedProject Amethyst collaboration between Sony and AMD.
Before its latest iteration, FSR was hardware agnostic, but that changed with the RDNA 4 GPU architecture.
Still, Cerny said the company has already implemented some of the FSR 4 neural internet into PS5 Pro.
FSR 4 is simply the next evolution of PlayStations own upscaler.
FSR 4 is the first machine learning-based branch of FidelityFX.
In our tests, it offers better performance and sharper visuals for supported games compared to FSR 3.1.
Sonys PSSR should work on all games with the enhanced label on PS5 Pro.
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