Songyee Yoon: Transforming gaming using responsible AI

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🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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There are more than 3 billion video gamers worldwide. Many come--and stay--for the community. Today: AI is changing gaming for these communities, and the head of one major video game developer says we need to advance gaming for users through responsible AI. Niala talks with Songyee Yoon of NCSoft, from the Axios House at the World Economic Forum, and gets context from Axios' global technology correspondent Ryan Heath. Plus: Stephen Totilo, author of the Game File newsletter, with a reality check on the human vs. AI touch in gaming today. Guests: Songyee Yoon, president and chief strategic officer of South Korean-based video game developer NCSoft; Ryan Heath, Axios global technology correspondent and co-author of Axios AI+; Stephen Totilo, author and founder of Game File and former gaming reporter at Axios. Credits: 1 big thing is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Alexandra Botti, and Jay Cowit. Music is composed by Alex Sugiura. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can send questions, comments and story ideas as a text or voice memo to Niala at 202-918-4893. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are more than 3 billion video gamers worldwide.
0:05.0	We have seen people playing games for 10 years and 20 years because of the community who you mid in games.
0:18.0	Today the head of one major video game developer on using AI to advance gaming responsibly.
0:24.0	Everyone including the consumers and the users of this technology should be
0:29.0	cognizant that it's very likely there will be some sort of bias.
0:35.0	Real community and artificial intelligence in gaming.
0:39.0	I'm Naila Boodoo and from Axios, this is one big thing. I'm going to be able to ask.
0:53.0	Wow.
0:55.0	AI-driven technologies are already changing gaming.
1:02.0	Gaming is one of the industries where AI is really proving its value fast.
1:06.0	The industry is actually bigger than Hollywood now,
1:09.0	and gamers expect a lot from game developers.
1:11.0	That's Ryan Heath, global technology correspondent for
1:14.3	Axios. I asked him to set the stage for our interview this week. Games
1:20.4	themselves are getting so sophisticated these days that AI definitely has the potential to change the economics of the whole industry by automating creation.
1:29.0	You're still going to need humans, this isn't a job loss story, it's much more likely that AI will speed
1:35.8	up creation and expand the sorts of characters and imagery that get used in games.
1:40.9	That said, 84% of game developers surveyed by the Game Developers Conference
1:46.2	say they have ethical worries about how generative AI is getting used.
1:51.8	One of these is Songying Yune, president and chief strategic officer at South Korean-based video game
1:57.3	developer, NCsoft.
1:59.2	Her company is behind online games like lineage, City of heroes, and Guild Wars.
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