At Activision's internal meeting—inexplicably hosted by James Corden—Bobby Kotick promises a 'new dimension of emotional connection' powered by AI

pcgamer.com:

As reported by Windows Central, sources have shared the inside details of an internal townhall yesterday between Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Activision-Blizzard employees.

This was apparently hosted by James Corden. In case you're not familiar, Corden's known for his role in beloved british sitcom Gavin and Stacey, movies like Into the Woods hosting The Late Late Show, and disrupting traffic to promote Cinderella by hip thrusting in a mouse outfit.

So, perhaps a bizarre choice—but sure. James Corden hosted an internal town hall at Activision-Blizzard. Stranger things have happened. Somewhere. Presumably.

Kotick spoke to Corden about how the company's leadership culture—one he described as «magic» and «special»—would change. I assume Kotick is not referring to the magic of brushing alleged sexism and harassment accusations under the rug as a «very aggressive labour movement» here. 

Kotick also spoke on the future of AI in Activision's future games: «If you look at the new technologies that are on the horizon, we're going to be able to do things that we've never done before with AI and machine learning … We have characters on the screen and video games [with] mouth movements and facial animation that is realistic—you're going to have a new dimension of emotional connection that we've not yet mastered.»

I am not exactly sure how AI—specifically, machine learning stuff—has anything to do with realistic animation. Some of the best physical acting we've seen as of late has been from Baldur's Gate 3, which was achieved through motion capture of over 200 actors, which animators then translated fully into the game. 

There's a lot of techno wizardry going on to achieve that, but part of me wonders if Kotick's mixing his terms