Sony patents AI bots that mimic your friends' gaming styles
Sony describes a system where an AI model learns how specific players move and act in a video game. It then creates a computer-controlled character that behaves like that player, allowing others to practice against them without the original player being online.
In the filing’s own words
Systems and methods for generating nonplayer characters are described. An artificial intelligence (AI) model is trained based on gameplay by one or more users to generate the nonplayer characters. The nonplayer characters have similar gameplay characteristics as that of a game character controlled by one of the users. The AI model is trained to have a percentage of gameplay characteristics learned from gameplay by the one the users and a percentage of gameplay characteristics from gameplay by another one of the users.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining, based on a user input from a first player, that (i) the first player does not wish to play a game for a session with a second player and (ii) the second player has given permission for an artificial intelligence (AI) model to generate nonplayer characters using the second player's game characteristics; generating, using the AI model, a nonplayer character that exhibits similar characteristics as the second player to interact in a video game with a character controlled by the first player; and providing the nonplayer character in the video game to interact with the character controlled by the first player.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.)
- Official title
- Systems and methods for generating nonplayer characters according to gameplay characteristics
- Patent number
- US12728355B2
- Application number
- 18458998
- Filed
- Aug 30, 2023
- Granted
- Sep 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
A63F 13/67 Human necessitiesMore from Sony in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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