Jonathan Lai

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Lai: Generative AI in gaming enables existing player desires, not new behaviors
“We're not in, we're not inventing entirely new consumer behavior. We're just making it easier for players to do what they already want.”
Jonathan Lai Dec 16, 2023 ▶ 11:33 2024 Big Ideas: AI-First Games That Never End with Jonathan Lai
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Lai: Video game players will readily accept LLM-powered AI companions
“The idea of just turbocharging disks of large language models to make them more lifelike and enable them to have a wider range of expression and behavior, I think is going to be Very well accepted by players.”
Jonathan Lai Dec 16, 2023 ▶ 10:01 2024 Big Ideas: AI-First Games That Never End with Jonathan Lai
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Lai: Future game worlds will be generated at runtime by neural networks
“And in the game worlds themselves can no longer, will no longer be rendered, but actually generated at runtime using neural networks.”
Jonathan Lai Dec 16, 2023 ▶ 2:50 2024 Big Ideas: AI-First Games That Never End with Jonathan Lai
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Lai: AI's biggest gaming opportunity is reinventing gameplay, not efficiency
“And while much of the early discourse on generative AI in games is focused on how AI can make game creators more efficient, I actually believe the largest opportunity long-term is on leveraging AI to reinvent the nature of the games themselves.”
Jonathan Lai Dec 16, 2023 ▶ 2:04 2024 Big Ideas: AI-First Games That Never End with Jonathan Lai
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Lai: 2024 will bring the first cohort of AI-first games
“So in 2024, I believe we'll see the first cohort of AI-first games from creators that leverage large language models to enable novel game systems and mechanics.”
Jonathan Lai Dec 16, 2023 ▶ 1:52 2024 Big Ideas: AI-First Games That Never End with Jonathan Lai

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