GamesBeat Summit 2024: Will Wright on his new game Proxi and the future of AI

Legendary game designer and SimCity creator Will Wright believes that AI will be a transformative force in game development, and he hopes that his new project will help illustrate some of those possibilities.

“Right now, we’re just seeing the earliest uses of AI in the gaming industry. But it is going to be huge, I’m sure,” said Wright during a panel at GamesBeat Summit 2024. “And it’s not just going to be NPCs having interesting conversations, but simple things like voice cloning, synthetic voices, not having to write a billion lines of dialogue because it can be generated … then building 3D models, building out worlds dynamically. There’s so many different uses.”