With the breakthrough of artificial intelligence, will people be able to use ChatGPT to make the next popular video game at home in the future? Strauss Zelnick, chief executive of Take-Two Interactive, says it will not be so soon. But that doesn't mean the technology lacks prospects.

Mr Zelnik said on Monday's earnings call that he was usually "the first to suspect hype", but this time he was "very excited about the ChatGPT we are seeing now and other leaps in artificial intelligence and machine learning".

"the ChatGPT is today's portable calculator," he said. You know, when I was a kid, there was no such thing. I hate to admit it, but it's true. So I had to do it by hand, and then the portable calculator appeared, and the parents were angry because they were worried that their children would never have to learn math again. But the answer is yes, you will still study math, and it turns out that you absolutely have to learn math. "

OpenAI's chat robot ChatGPT has sparked a frenzy on Wall Street and elsewhere, and people are thinking more seriously about what artificial intelligence can bring to businesses.

In Zelnik's view, this is part of a "very exciting new tool era" that can "make our teams and competitors' teams do really interesting things more effectively." but this technology will not revolutionize the video game industry.

He points out that this may not even help improve the "cost structure" of the game business, because "any time you make things easier, we want to do more, and our team wants to do more."

Zelnik is not worried about people's games such as Grand Theft Auto, Wild Dart and NBA 2K developed in his basement using ChatGPT to compete with Take-Two.

"it won't allow anyone to say, please develop a better competition than Grand Theft Auto," Zelnik said. People will try, but that won't happen. "

Edit / lydia