This bedroom was not created by a human artist. A person put the finishing touches on it.

Promethean AI automatically generates game scenes, like a bedroom, for human artists

Promethean AI uses artificial intelligence to help human artists create art for video games. It can, for instance, automatically generate a bedroom when a human artist says, “Make a bedroom.” Then the artist can take that scene and customize it as needed.

I saw this in action as Andrew Maximov, founder of Promethean AI and former technical art director at Naughty Dog, showed it to me in a demo at the recent Game Developers Conference.

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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.