"It's a tool and you need to use it" - Shuhei Yoshida shares his thoughts on artificial intelligence

The Guardian interviewed game industry veteran Shuhei Yoshida, where he was asked what he thought about developers' concerns that artificial intelligence could replace human effort in areas such as art, music, and programming. Yoshida replied that today's developers and creators will need to learn new skills to work with AI in order to use it effectively. In his opinion, this will ultimately have a positive impact on game development:

"It is a tool. Someone has to use the tool. AI can produce very strange things, as you must have seen. You really have to be able to use the tool well. AI will change the nature of learning for game developers, but in the end development will be more efficient, and more beautiful things will be made by people"

In 1993, Yoshida joined the PlayStation project, a year before the original console was released, and was appointed president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios. He now heads up the SIE Independent Developer Initiative, where he is tasked with supporting smaller external independent studios.

Source: VGC