I mean, that’s the goal of all of these AI companies. If you peruse any marketing material for Google, Microsoft, ChatGPT, Grok, etc. they almost all mention the “agentic capabilities” of their flavor of spyware.

Personally, an AI model which is capable of doing tasks like this would actually interest me. However, no organization (for profit or otherwise) is trustworthy enough to have access to all of the data on me that it would take to make an agentic AI actually useful, so, for me, it would have to be something I run locally. However, rather than invest all of the time, effort, and money into learning how to make that happen, I think I’ll just call the damn dealership and schedule an appointment. I may suffer from terminally online brain rot, but I’m not so paralyzed by human interaction I can’t make the occasional phone call.

It really wouldn’t.

The general “gold standard” for game AI uses (My background is Unreal so) pathnodes. Little blips that indicate where an NPC should be and that get built into a graph. That graph represents the paths NPCs can take. You add special pathnodes to indicate an interactives and weight the paths to prioritize routes. So imagine if you had the heaviest weight pathnodes on the streets of a town, lower weight nodes for alleyways, and very low weight nodes for a path through a swamp in case of emergency.

Now realize that many textures and assets have those baked in these days. That road texture? That is a path with “road” weight.

What benefit would AI provide for that? None. Because you would just be computing this “live” rather than offline.

As for interactives ? Again, you can bake that into the asset itself. That apple tree has an interaction to check if there is an apple and, if you are hungry, eat it.

Again, why take that online if you don’t have to?

Then you have the idea of NPC schedules. In theory, you can give each NPC a job and they can find food and blah blah blah blah. We already did that. It was called The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. At the best of times, it was indistinguishable from just giving an NPC a schedule corresponding to a work day. The rest of the time, it was complete stupidity as people would walk five blocks for an apple. and they mostly forgot/overwrote their actual jobs (outside of the ones who were hardcoded… which were most of them).

This is one of those “holy grail” ideas that people think of to sell the idea. But you invariably end up with the Star Citizen bar tender where mostly it just breaks and the interactions people expect are the same ones we have been dealing with for decades. Asking Sam Malone for some weed is funny but it isn’t anything you are going to do while playing a game (outside of youtube content). You roll up, buy a drink, ask for some info, and leave.

As for dialogue trees? Need I remind everyone of Darth Vader’s penchant for slurs? Because that is what you get.

Mostly this is like a LOT of applications for AI. People want to replace humans. They end up making something MUCH more fragile than what those humans have been making for decades and then need to allocate resources to update the prompts when a new model drops and so forth.

Versus just continuing to bake pathnodes into a road texture and setting a property on that vacuum cleaner asset and so forth.

Once the VC funding is gone and AI companies need to become profitable, I don’t see myself as an individual paying for some LLM, at best I’d try to setup a free LLM like deep seek on local hardware, but maybe corporations might pay for AI access for their employees if they think it provides some benefits, even if that’s not really true in the long run

Ur are right, the joke stands tho.

I don‘t think a K-Pop simulator would‘ve sold very well. Especially not in the west because a lot of it seemingly revolved around romantic relationships and keeping them secret at all cost. Even as little as being seen with the opposite sex in public is career suicide for an idol. That seems like a tough pitch for a game tbh.