If I shutdown every voice other than the optimist's one in my head, this, along with other recent AI research, will mark the advent of never-seen-before role play game possibilities. If the current pace of progress continues, we'll see games with complete narrative freedom for players, where you aren't limited to pre-written answers anymore, but can actually talk to in-game characters with your actual voice, goals, and motivations. And those virtual conversation participants can talk back to you, react to your words and actions in a believable, fully immersive manner. That's a dream come true for every gamer on the face of this earth, I believe.
The more rational voices in my mind, though, become more and more afraid of a world where the only thing you can trust is people sitting right in front of you. That makes the world of information pretty small again.
The more rational voices in my mind, though, become more and more afraid of a world where the only thing you can trust is people sitting right in front of you. That makes the world of information pretty small again.