You still have a good while. Where I work we use AI sometimes to caption videos, and for a vast majority of the time, it needs babysitting. Can't just hit and it forget it.

Given there is a large degree of difference depending on where you are. No one is going to release the good stuff for free..

Only a matter of time, no that doesn't answer your question. But if you want to expedite the process then consider 'donating' your voice to the Mozilla Common Voice project.

Im thinking the AI voiced NPC would probably take years to be used in the game industry but text-only based AI conversations can probably already be implemented in-game , not sure why we haven't seen those in games yet. We already have tons of chatbots.

Anyway I'm excited for these stuff even if its not voiced to be coming soon, It's gonna provide 'endless' non repetitive content for a lot of open world RPGs.

I bet if SBS haven't already they would eventually implement some kind of AI for their NPC speech (text-only) during those 10 years of the story... after all they want npcs to be indistinguishable from players. 10 years is a long time in terms of technological innovations specially considering the rate of innovations increase as well. Although I'm assuming that the developers would improve the game continually after release for that 10 year period, which (apart from research based add ons) may not be the case.

Yeah when the NPC AI start behaving like the hosts from Westworld and pass the Turing test I'm not sure if we should celebrate or run and hide.

Posted By ZeroCool at 11:36 AM - Mon May 14 2018

Yeah when the NPC AI start behaving like the hosts from Westworld and pass the Turing test I'm not sure if we should celebrate or run and hide.

You forgot the third option - kill it with fire.

I can't wait for a computer to tell me it slept with my mother.

I wonder, how long it will take, until some company lets an AI make a whole MMO... and how that will play out^^

And if anything goes wrong, just tell the AI a paradox.

"this sentence is false... dont think about it, dont think about it" /goes offline :D

Posted By chipla at 3:43 PM - Mon May 14 2018

Posted By ZeroCool at 11:36 AM - Mon May 14 2018

Yeah when the NPC AI start behaving like the hosts from Westworld and pass the Turing test I'm not sure if we should celebrate or run and hide.

You forgot the third option - kill it with fire.

That's probably the worst idea. By the time you perceive an AI as being so smart it could be a threat, it's already likely smarter than all of humanity combined. It's better to work together than to provoke such an AI.

Anyway, it's likely AI will advance enough during the 10 years of CoE that they may use it to their advantage.