GamesBeat Summit 2023 will capture how generative AI is changing gaming

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 3, 2023
Updated June 17, 2025
4 min

AI has been known to gamers for decades, mostly in the form of relatively dumb non-player characters (NPCs) which were nothing like the sapient Ryan Reynolds character in the film Free Guy. But AI is sweeping through the game industry anew with the advent of generative AI.

And that’s one of the can’t-miss topics we’ll thoroughly explore at GamesBeat Summit 2023, which takes place in person at the Marina del Rey Marriott on May 22-23 and online on May 24. (You can use this code to get 40% off: GBSDEANNEWS).

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.