Akihiro Hino, president and chief executive officer of Level-5, the studio behind the Professor Layton and Ni no Kuni series, recently spoke about the growing influence of artificial intelligence at a welcome event for new participants in the Top Game Creators Academy (TCGA), a government initiative.
Hino, the principal of TCGA, welcomed the class of burgeoning developers with an anecdote about AI in game development (reported by Famitsu and translated by Automaton West).
"Through this program, I hope many of you will soar to the global stage as game developers. While I am also actively working as a developer, I've recently found myself thinking that AI technology is encroaching upon the creative world," Hino began.
"Currently, around 80-90 per cent of code is written by AI, and then fixed up and finalised by human programmers. In other words, it means that right now, around 80-90 per cent of games are made by artificial intelligence," he continued. "And it does not just stop at programming — AI technology is encroaching on art, music and even game design on a large scale. Not to mention that it's already becoming common sense in the creative world to rely on the power of...
