Tales is taking AI a step further with an ambitious project that lets you generate your own games
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Since ChatGPT was released, the world has changed, with every company rushing to implement AI solutions and features in their products and services. This meant that millions of dollars were being poured into extensively developing and training AI models, and we've had a couple of glimpses of AI's potential.
We've seen the Vitals app know when you'll get sick before you do, Copilot+ PCs using AI to turn sketches into masterpieces, ChatGPT messaging you first to check on you, and even being able to create your own 3D game. There have been plenty of applications of AI, and creating games by giving AI a prompt isn't a new concept, but Tales plans to take it to the next level.
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What is Tales and how does it work?
Tales is a next-gen gaming platform that plans to use a large world model (LWM) to power its generative AI. While it isn't live yet, the developers have explained how they plan to get started.
Their LWM is called Sia, and they plan on calling upon the community's help in training it. They said: “anyone with resources can join our goal. See Tales as the “glue” that is enabling all kinds of resources to come together; GPU, server storage, engineers, gameplay recordings.”
After they have the data, Tales can train the AI model and develop an LWM the community help build and fund. So, you can have a “hands-on” approach with this and positively impact Sia's progression.
As Tales stated, the result is “a next-generation video game console to experience all sorts of interactive immersive experiences.” What this means is whatever you can imagine, you can give a prompt for that, and it'll turn into reality. You will, however, have to work with Sia to finetune the output, such as understanding the environment, genre, characters, and gameplay mechanics.
Over at the Tales YouTube channel, they showcased how the prompt would work in an introductory video. They showed a buggy racing across a snowy region, and after giving it the prompt of “Change to a desert,” the entire setting and gameplay mechanics changed to a desert. They further showed a prompt of “Change it to the moon,” changing the landscape to the moon, with Earth in the background and the car switching to a moon rover.
Whether the final product will work as accurately, only time will tell and as the AI model is trained with more data, the output will also gradually improve. This footage might be from a game engine, but it does well in displaying what Tales envisions. That said, solely creating games isn't all they have in store.
More than games
Tales plans to build a library of user-generated experiences, whether they are games, learning experiences, or anything else. They described these in four different aspects: Tales Arcade, Interactive Education, Intelligent NPCs, and Tales Watch and how they work, Tales explained best:
So, looking at this, it seems like we're about to experience a whole other level of immersion, especially with Tales Watch. Whether that works with VR, we're not sure, but it would be awesome to recreate some action-packed moments from real life, movies, or games and be in the middle of it all.
They have also shared their roadmap of how they plan to achieve their goal, and it consists of 8 phases, with the final phase currently ongoing. Tales is said to go live next month, and I can't wait to see how it changes the gaming landscape.