Cover News Reporter Bian Xue
How can the gaming industry go further beyond gaming boundaries? Unexpectedly, the answer was in the artificial intelligence of the fire.
In the field of game technology, in order to pursue clearer visualizations, smoother interactive experiences, faster running speeds and more vivid game characters, human beings continue to put forward new scientific questions and technical requirements for artificial intelligence from the theoretical, technical and ethical levels, so as to promote the continuous development of artificial intelligence.
WAIC Game Artificial Intelligence Frontier Exploration and University Joint Research Center kicked off the forum.
Scientific exploration, game technology, and industry demand are important factors driving breakthrough development in the field of artificial intelligence, focusing on the symbiotic and mutually driving relationship between artificial intelligence and games, a forum to discuss "game AI applications and game technology" was also held at WAIC 2023 to jointly study cross-field scientific and technological innovation ideas combining AI+ game technology tools.
The cover news reporter learned at the meeting that Xiamen University, together with Communication University of China, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Institute of Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and other university departments, is preparing to establish the "Joint Research Center for Game Artificial Intelligence Universities" to continue to deepen the research of game artificial intelligence.
"The combination of games and artificial intelligence technology has spawned the frontier research field of game artificial intelligence." Zhang Junsong, deputy dean of the School of Information Science of Xiamen University, said in his opening speech that game artificial intelligence is committed to creating human-level intelligent twins, which helps promote the innovation and development of general artificial intelligence and has become an important part of the international science and technology competition. Attaching importance to and promoting the key role of game artificial intelligence in the development of cutting-edge science and technology is an important goal and task for the academic community and the industry in the coming period.
Song Xiewei, Dean of the School of Design of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, introduced the exploration and practice of using artificial intelligence technology and gamified thinking in promoting the transformation of design disciplines to interdisciplinary disciplines, and proposed that the current reality requires us to think: "When artificial intelligence technology and game media have become increasingly integrated and become part of our daily lives, how should we apply their thinking, methods and technologies to the management and optimization of society?" ”
As one of the typical applications of AI, game AI is gradually universally applicable to many life scenarios such as digital health. Ren Xipei, Deputy Director of the International Design Center of Beijing Institute of Technology, briefly discussed the relationship between AI and games, analyzed the theory of game AI in terms of mechanism, motivation and emotion, and further elaborated the classic cases and broad market prospects of game AI in the field of active health, and also pointed out that design students lack embodyed experience and practical ability in game AI health design.
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The Game Philosophy Research Center of Xiamen University, Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence Industry Association, and Shanghai Artificial Intelligence and Society Research Association also jointly released the "Play with Artificial Intelligence Game Artificial Intelligence Industry Observation Report" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"). The report believes that games and artificial intelligence develop synergistically and promote each other at three levels: theoretical research, GPU and other hardware iterations, and application scenarios.
Lu Chuanying, secretary-general of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence and Social Development Research Association, said in the release of the report that games and artificial intelligence promote each other and find ways to solve many practical problems. "In the coming period, getting game artificial intelligence technology out of the game environment will become a major application direction. Game AI can help the innovation and development of all walks of life after stepping out of the virtual world. ”
Games and artificial intelligence reinforce each other on three levels
At the theoretical level, the report says games inspire theoretical research on artificial intelligence. In the 50s of the 20th century, Shannon, the father of information, began the beginning of chess AI research. At the same time, Turing, known as the "father of artificial intelligence", mentioned the relationship between artificial intelligence research and games in his seminal paper "Computing Machines and Intelligence" in the field of artificial intelligence, believing that board games are an important field to demonstrate the "thinking" ability of machines.
At the hardware level, games drive the innovative development of AI computing infrastructure GPUs. Taking NVIDIA as an example, with rich technology accumulation and high R&D investment in the field of game graphics cards, NVIDIA has rapidly risen to become a leading enterprise in the field of artificial intelligence chips.
At the application level, games provide a controllable training environment and massive data for artificial intelligence. Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, has publicly stated that OpenAI uses games with complex mechanisms and competitive mechanisms to carry out AI reinforcement learning, which provides a reference for later ChatGPT technology.
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According to the popular research section of the report, 91.9% of respondents believe that games support the development of artificial intelligence by promoting GPU advancement; 88% of respondents agree that gaming AI is the only way to general AI.
Zhu Jing, Dean of the Department of Philosophy of Xiamen University, shared the scene.
Zhu Jing, head of the Department of Philosophy at Xiamen University, believes that "AGI is the original intention and dream of AI research and represents the highest goal." The game scene has the characteristics of unified goals and forms, and continuous data sources, which provides the possibility for building AGI. The diversity and complexity of game scenes and their similarity with real life give game AGI high research value. ”
As a major scenario of artificial intelligence application, the application of game artificial intelligence in the field of education also has a broad imagination.
Cui Yunpeng, deputy dean of the School of Animation and Digital Art of Communication University of China, believes that "in terms of game education, it inherits the characteristics of the integration of technology, art and humanities of the college, and forms an interdisciplinary, cross-professional and cross-integration concept and teaching system of game art + game technology + e-sports. Artificial intelligence integrates multiple functions such as creation tools, analysis tools, and communication tools into teaching, creation, and activity organization, which profoundly affects the practice and thinking of game education. ”
Game AI "value spillover"
In fact, the scale of the game industry's pull on the artificial intelligence industry is increasing. As early as April this year, the Virtual Economy and Data Science Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Key Laboratory of Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management of the Chinese Academy of Sciences jointly released the "Exploring the Road to AI Innovation - Game Technology and Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Development Report", which also clearly pointed out that for every 1% increase in the scale of China's game industry, the total operating income of artificial intelligence listed enterprises in various provinces will increase by an average of about 142 million yuan per year.
The game's boost to the development of artificial intelligence and its industry has brought far-reaching value spillover, allowing artificial intelligence to continuously release more efficiency in practice and promote the development of the economy and society in the direction of intelligence.
The cover news reporter learned from the forum that around the theme of "artificial intelligence technology and game industry development", the participants also shared experience and exchanged, the roundtable forum from ACGC in the popularization of the game industry encountered problems, how games as a productivity to help the development of all walks of life, how enterprises, universities and scientific research institutions through industry-university-research cooperation.
Roundtable forum on artificial intelligence technology and game industry development.
Games are the first cutting-edge technology "training ground" for artificial intelligence and graphics. As a special productivity game, it also has spillover value in the fields of autonomous driving, scientific research, medical simulation, civil aviation, community management, art therapy, etc., and also helps simplify the difficulty of popular science, help academic research, and bring many positive impacts to daily life.
There is no doubt that as a game in the super digital scene, with the high-quality development of the game industry, the game may become an important testing ground for AI technology innovation, application innovation and cross-domain feedback.
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