Resident Evil Requiem actor Nick Apostolides, who plays Leon Kennedy, has commented on the state of AI in gaming today, saying AI is capable of speaking lines but there is "nothing human behind it."
Speaking to PC Gamer, Apostolides said what draws people to games is that the characters and stories in them are "so human." He said, "The stories are so real, the emotions are real" and players get invested in that. "I don't believe AI can do that," he said.
He went on to comment on the raid shooter Arc Raiders and how its developer, Embark, used text-to-speech and machine-learning technologies for its voice lines. He said for a game as successful as Arc Raiders, "to pay for an actor's voice session is not that big of a deal."
Embark hired human actors to record voice lines for Arc Raiders, and then fed those recordings into a system that allowed the team to come up with all manner of different text-to-speech voice lines for a given situation in the game. Embark boss Patrick Soderlund has pushed back against the criticisms of this, saying, "We don't use AI to not have to hire people or replace people or job groups or voice actors." He has also said that "making games without actors isn't an end goal."
Also in the PC Gamer interview, Apostolides said AI is here to stay and people in the video game business "have to learn how to evolve with it."
"I think things are inevitably going to change in the next few years, but we're just going to have to navigate this together and roll with it," he said. "There's no turning it off, there's no dialing it back. I think it's coming at us full speed ahead, and it's going to have effects on the creative industry, on every industry, a lot for good, but when it comes to art--that is human-born."
For more, check out GameSpot's Resident Evil Requiem review and some beginner tips in the gallery below.
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Speaking to PC Gamer, Apostolides said what draws people to games is that the characters and stories in them are "so human." He said, "The stories are so real, the emotions are real" and players get invested in that. "I don't believe AI can do that," he said.
He went on to comment on the raid shooter Arc Raiders and how its developer, Embark, used text-to-speech and machine-learning technologies for its voice lines. He said for a game as successful as Arc Raiders, "to pay for an actor's voice session is not that big of a deal."
Embark hired human actors to record voice lines for Arc Raiders, and then fed those recordings into a system that allowed the team to come up with all manner of different text-to-speech voice lines for a given situation in the game. Embark boss Patrick Soderlund has pushed back against the criticisms of this, saying, "We don't use AI to not have to hire people or replace people or job groups or voice actors." He has also said that "making games without actors isn't an end goal."
Also in the PC Gamer interview, Apostolides said AI is here to stay and people in the video game business "have to learn how to evolve with it."
"I think things are inevitably going to change in the next few years, but we're just going to have to navigate this together and roll with it," he said. "There's no turning it off, there's no dialing it back. I think it's coming at us full speed ahead, and it's going to have effects on the creative industry, on every industry, a lot for good, but when it comes to art--that is human-born."
For more, check out GameSpot's Resident Evil Requiem review and some beginner tips in the gallery below.
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