AI has a "symbiotic relationship" with blockchain: CEO of Animoca Brands

Animoca Brands CEO Robby Yung spoke to Cointelegraph at the Proof of Talk blockchain conference in Paris on the future of AI and blockchain at stake.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a hot topic in public discourse inside and outside the emerging tech industry amid a surge in popularity of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot and others.

At the Proof of Talk 2023 blockchain and Web3 conference in Paris, Cointelegraph sat down with Robbie Yung, CEO of Animoca Brands, to discuss the relationship between AI, blockchain and gaming.< /p>

Robbie Yung, CEO of Animoca Brands (left), with Cointelegraph Reporter Savannah Fortis at Proof of Talk 2023 in Paris. Source: Cointelegraph

Yung told Cointelegraph that Animoca has been involved in AI for "a long time", both incubating AI businesses and using it in the game development. According to him, for artistic teams, generative AI is a game-changer in terms of productivity and development.

"Generative art has the potential to dramatically increase the productivity of art teams. It's like giving farmers tractors instead of horses."

AI has been particularly prevalent in the video game industry. On May 29, Nvidia announced a new suite of artificial intelligence tools called Nvidia ACE for Games. Among other abilities, the tools use AI to give non-player characters (NPCs), also called background players in games, more character abilities.

The CEO of Animoca Brands explained that AI integrations allow players to have a more interactive experience with the universe as it takes on a "life of its own". When the game is blockchain-based, AI integration becomes even more relevant:

"AI has a very symbiotic relationship with what we do in the blockchain. NPCs will actually become...