As SAG-AFTRA members strike against some of the biggest video game makers in the world in an effort to secure better protections against AI, the head of Amazon Games is still pretty sure bringing artificial intelligence into game development is still a good idea - in part because "for games, we don't really have acting."
Amazon Games CEO Christoph Hartmann told IGN that he hoped AI can speed up the development process, which can take "like five years per game" among AAA studios - leaving those developers constantly trailing behind the current zeitgeist. Hartmann posited that "hopefully AI will help us to streamline processes so hand-done work will go fast. Ideally we can get it down to three years so we can iterate more, which then will bring the budgets down a little bit."
