Patent filed by Sony suggests that if your opponent quits a multiplayer game, artificial intelligence could one day as well take over. Yesterday, user WolfgangKaipZ posted the patent for the first time to Reddit.
The abstract published at Patentscope summarizes in a convicting way what this technology would achieve. “When the first player quits or stops reacting before the multiplayer game is over, the first player is replaced by a computer-simulated version of the first player that chooses its actions based on the probabilities determined from the first player’s monitored acts. Therefore, the multiplayer game will continue without interruption or disturbance and the first player’s style is completely re-played.
This means, for example, if we take a fighting game, this technology will allow a match to continue even if your opponent left by monitoring their previous inputs through rage quit or unfortunate disconnection and replicating how they’d play in the minutes later that follow. This would be very handy across many games to stop players feeding, going AFK, or quitting rage from potentially ruining everyone else’s match.
You should take this with an assumption, as always with patents, but it’s worth considering that it might appear in practice in the future. We caught another patent yesterday, which gave us our first glimpse into what the PS5 UI might look like.
