How AI is changing gaming tech in 2025 | BBC News

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It's not really about showing off your games. I think every type of developers here, you know, whether you're a writer, whether you're working in narrative design, game design, the level design, and this is the one chance that everyone can get together.

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The Game Developer Conference in San Francisco brings together thousands in the industry to share the latest innovation and emerging trends. BBC Tech Now�s Marc Cieslak finds out how AI is one of the biggest trends at this year�s GDC. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news

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I think every type of developers here, you know, whether you're a writer, whether you're working in narrative design, game design, the level design, and this is the one chance that everyone can get together

Trends come and go in video games, and a big one this year is..

Every way you look on the Expo floor, there's an AI solution to this or an AI solution to that, but the big question is what difference would all of this AI make to the games that we actually play? AI's presence is being felt in a number of different ways, from tools that allow developers to create elements of video game worlds just by using text prompts for gotten your own company, have you? No, no, I'm with Fasbera Financial

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To end game characters, the react in a more realistic way with the player

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And AI in gaming particularly writes to how AI could improve game experience by helping them play the games, or how it could enable developers to make games faster and cheaper

There's definitely attention, and thus it's around jobs, where AI could take developers' jobs and setting around training data, where is the AI getting all the stuff that it uses to be able to generate a new skin or a new character outfit