Artificial Intelligence has come a long way in the last few years. While hyper-intelligent AI was once a sci-fi fantasy, humans are inching ever closer to that reality. Naturally, some might be afraid of a situation like War Games, where an AI essentially has the ability to destroy the world, but it turns out AI is being applied in radically different ways. It’s being used to show what game characters would look like in real life.
Over on Reddit, user mm2k2k uploaded images of PlayStation icons with realistic, AI-generated faces. While PlayStation usually has realistic-looking characters in its games already, they’re still stylized, so the translations can look a fair bit different than what one might expect. Generally, the faces are a bit softer and less rugged, which does make them appear like they could be found in the real world.
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Of course, the more stylized a character the more interesting the final result. Kratos, for instance, has a shockingly strange look that takes away his iconic red stripe. Kratos' facial structure has been radically changed, though the final product does look convincingly like a real person, so the AI is definitely doing its job in that regard.
The AI hasn’t just spit out PlayStation characters, though. In the comments, mm2k2k has been generating characters that commenters request, like Mass Effect’s Shephard. The results have been fairly impressive thus far, showing the qualities that an actor may need to portray each character in a live-action movie, which is an interesting application for the software.
Mm2k2k didn’t share the specific AI they were using, though it appears to be a piece of software called StyleCLIP, which is currently circulating social media platforms. AI generation is an interesting concept for the world of video games, and one that may become more common as time presses on. Simply put, AI is becoming more advanced, and in time it might be able to create impressive assets.
There’s no better evidence of what AI may one day be capable of than AI-generated Grand Theft Auto 5, which circulated a few weeks ago. That video paints a picture of entire games being generated by AI at some point in the future, and while there’s a long way to go until things get to that point, it’s starting to seem like more of a possibility, for better or for worse.
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Source: Reddit
