Using AI bots as game development tools, not replacements with modl.ai

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Generative AI bots have been taking the internet by storm, allowing anybody with a network connection to put in a prompt and watch a piece of software complete it. The latest trendy bot is ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, which has generated conversations, scripts, text-based games, and even fully-fledged articles to varying degrees of success. DALL-E 2 and Midjourney are other popular programs that produce images based on text prompts, and there are countless more.

There are a lot of ethical questions surrounding the use of AI-based tools in creative work, but in video game development, they’re only getting more popular. According to George Jijiashvili, an analyst at Game Developer sibling company Omdia, AI tools will be “the hottest topic in games tech” in game development over the next year, with startups launching to fill the space. One company is modl.ai, which produces AI-assisted tools that can create bots for multiplayer games, detect bugs, and can design levels in match-3 games.

I was scheduled to speak with Christoffer Holmgård, co-founder and CEO of modl.ai, before ChatGPT, AI, and machine learning became the talk of the internet for the upteenth time. So the topic of what these types of tools can do for game developers was at the top of mind. One of the key things that Holmgård mentions about his company’s tools is that they won’t get rid of (human) work. They’ll just change what the work looks like and where developers can put their focus.

“When the digital spreadsheet came out, [it] may sound boring, but before that, you did everything by hand… So I'm sure that a lot of people thought that a lot of the kind of accountancy and computation work would go away,” he explained. “But what actually happened was we had an