Riccitiello: Unity is building AI tools for automated 3D content creation
John Riccitiello · How Gaming is Changing the Media Landscape · Mar 16, 2020 · at 44:25
John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, describes Unity's internal development of AI features designed to eliminate repetitive labor in 3D content creation.
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“Unity's working on technologies where, you know, semantic content creation, but you start to draw a river and it finishes itself, because it knows that you're drawing a river.”
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