Dan Houser ‘Dabbling In Using AI’ For His Next Major Project At Absurd Ventures
Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games, has revealed during an appearance on British TV series Sunday Brunch that he’s working with AI for his next game, but believes the technology is “not as useful as some of the companies would have you believe.”
Houser, who is now fronting Absurd Ventures after departing Rockstar Games five years ago, was promoting his novel A Better Paradise, which plucks inspiration from the AI revolution, video game development, and the growth of technology during the coronavirus pandemic.
With all things [the games industry] can either go somewhere really interesting or somewhere that gets overly focused on making money. There’s always that danger with any commercial artform that [companies] get distracted by money. But I think there’s still a big ceiling creatively to make these kinds of living narrative experiences. I think that’s what we were always trying to do [with the GTA games].
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With all these technology companies, people get rich and powerful on a scale almost nobody’s ever seen before. They’re give or take the richest people who ever lived and in some ways the most powerful people who ever lived in terms of influencing the world. And all the companies start out the same way: ‘we’re here to make things better, we’re here to help people, we’re here to fix the world’. And then they get this kind of Faustian moment where ‘we’re also going to get extremely rich and extremely powerful’. And things get corrupted.
In the story yeah there’s lots of AI characters. We are dabbling in using AI. The truth is a lot of it’s not as useful as some of the companies would have you believe yet. It’s not going to solve all of the problems.
Speaking during an interview with Lex Fridman earlier this month, Houser revealed that Rockstar Games’ Agent, which was in development as a PS3-exclusive around 2009, failed to see the light of day as he believes the spy genre isn’t suited to an open-world template. He also said during the same chat that he believes Red Dead Redemption 3 will eventually happen, but feels the series was best suited to its two-game arc (not counting the spiritual predecessor Red Dead Revolver, that is).
[Source – Sunday Brunch via Eurogamer]
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