EA may be developing a way for AI to teach gamers a foreign language while playing.
As the exuter, Electronic Arts recently filed a patent for an “overlay for learning foreign languages in video games.”
“The subject matter provides systems and methods for educational overlay for learning foreign languages in video games. In one aspect, an automated (e.g., artificial intelligence (AI)-driven) system can generate mini-puzzles from game content that test the player's knowledge of a selected language,” says the patent, which can be viewed here.
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These mini-games may include word problems along with visual puzzles, "which challenge the player to find an object by its name in a foreign language in the current still frame." EA's patent also envisions players saying different phrases and AI being able to evaluate their pronunciation by tracking lip and tongue movements.
The patent goes on to say that EA's educational overlay could pause the game after a dialogue-heavy section, then reveal a second language-focused mini-puzzle that "may ask the player to select the correct article, suffix, or correct word from a list of multiple options, arrange words in the right order."
"Alternatively, an object in the scene may be selected and the player may be asked to choose the correct word for the object in a foreign language."
“The system can function as a specialized language learning tool. For example, content may be generated automatically based on game assets, including localized dialogue lines, object names and tags in game assets, existing dictionaries and automatic translation systems, etc.,” the patent continues.
In recent months, the AI boom has been met with mixed reactions. Music fans created their own Drake songs using an AI generator, and David Guetta says AI is the future of music after he used technology to add Eminem's "voice" to a new song.
However, Nick Cave called ChatGPT and AI songwriting a "grotesque mockery of what it means to be human" and hundreds of artists protested the use of AI-generated works on a professional portfolio site artstation.
Earlier this week in a new update Gran Turismo 7 has "superhuman AI" in the racing game.
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