It seems as though Square Enix is set to go all in on artificial intelligence in 2024 with the company’s president Takashi Kiryu saying that generative AI has the potential to reshape what the company creates. The news comes in a New Year letter by Mr. Kiryu in which he talks about emerging technologies that can benefit video games. His letter is well worth a read.
“Artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential implications had for some time largely been subjects of academic debate. However, the introduction of ChatGPT, which allows anyone to easily produce writing or translations or to engage in text-based dialogue, sparked the rapid spread of generative AIs. Its release made it apparent that the applicability of generative AI was by no means limited to text, and the subsequent months saw a quick succession of launches of new services and content that expanded generative AI into a variety of domains with close ties to digital entertainment, including images, video, and music. I believe that generative AI has the potential not only to reshape what we create, but also to fundamentally change the processes by which we create, including programming.”
