Demis Hassabis

Because you're kind of co-creating the game.

We set up the parameters, we set up initial conditions, and then you as the player are immersed in it, and then you are co-creating it with the simulation.

But of course, it's very hard to program open world games.

You've got to be able to create content, whichever direction the player goes in, and you want it to be compelling, no matter what the player chooses.

And so it was always quite difficult to build things like cellular automata, actually type of those kinds of classical systems, which created some emergent behavior.

But they're always a little bit fragile, a little bit limited.

Now we're maybe on the cusp in the next few years, five, 10 years of having AI systems that can truly create around your imagination.

can sort of dynamically change the story and storytell the narrative around and make it dramatic no matter what you end up choosing.

So it's like the ultimate choose your own adventure sort of game.

And I think maybe we're within reach if you think of a kind of interactive version of VO and then wind that forward five to 10 years and imagine how good it's going to be.

Yeah, exactly.

And so, but what you'd like is a little bit better than just sort of a random generation, right?

So you'd like, and also better than a simple A, B hard code of choice, right?

That's not really open world, right?

As you say, it's just giving you the illusion of choice.

What you want to be able to do is potentially anything in that game environment.

And I think the only way you can do that is to have generated systems, systems that will generate that on the fly.

Of course, you can't create infinite amounts of game assets, right?

It's expensive enough already how AAA games are made today.

And that was obvious to us back in the 90s when I was working on all these games, I think.