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I did look quickly, but couldn't find anything. I'll have more of a dig over the weekend, but the text in the beginning of the video reads and looks just like a patent application abstract...Since this is patent pending, that must mean there’s a patent filing accessible online somewhere, right?
On one level I like the idea. It certainly would add to the immersion, although I'd hope it's not permanently on in races; drivers don't listen to that while they're racing, so hopefully it's either piped through public address systems to add to track atmosphere or just on replays.
However I also don't. Creatives are having A Bad Time Of Things with people thinking AI can do art (usually trained on existing art, neatly using artists' own art to do them out of jobs while also being incapable of drawing fingers or the right number thereof) and write (CNET, among others, publishes articles written by ChatGPT, after heavy editing), without ****ing over the spoken word too. And I'm not sure how they synthesised Joy and Bowyer's voices saying things they've never said; bit alarming they'd happily agree to it...
Game-changer? I can't see it radically altering the landscape of racing games. Hell, if they succeed it patenting it (which, if it's based off OpenAI GPT-2/GPT-3, won't happen) it probably won't alter any racing games other than S4S's titles, and I don't see how it radically changes how players play or experience the game.
Look at the patentable examples I gave in my previous article. Nemesis literally changes how you play and experience SOM over other similar titles, by giving you a personal connection with the enemy that persists and evolves. The Ping system gives you precise game communication without opening your ears to the world of 12-year-olds-screaming-homophobia-racism-and-threats-down-their-mics that you usually find in games where such communication is needed, giving an entirely different game experience and allowing the players to play in an wholly different way.
Of course I'll reserve judgment until we see it. Or hear it.