AI generation has made great strides in recent years, from prompt-based image generation to the recent development of fully AI-generated video. For our games, however, most AI innovations have been limited to those that upscale existing content.

However, if Jensen Huang's latest predictions are correct, that may change in the next decade.

Huang held a Q&A session at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) this week. In an interview with Tom's Hardware, he also gave an interesting glimpse into his predictions for the future of AI generation in gaming. When asked how close we are to a world where every pixel is generated in real time, and his vision for games in such a space, he replied:

"I don't think we are 10 years away. Five years from now, we will probably be in the midst of everything changing in real time and everyone will be thinking, 'Oh, look at that, this is happening. It's going to be a year from now, it's going to be 10 years from now, it's probably going to be another two years. So I think within the next five to ten years, somewhere in between, I think it's going to happen, for the most part."

Well, now things are clear. However, when I fire up my CEO translation device, Jensen seems to think that within 5 to 10 years, we may have an AI generation that can create games pixel by pixel.

While it is sometimes tempting to think of "generations" in the way our machines seem to be "creating" games today, in reality we are only witnessing the graphical output of the rendering and rasterization process; AI-generated games are an entirely different process and will probably be an extremely hardware-dependent endeavor.

After all, the RTX 4090, currently the most powerful GPU, is inadequate as a real-time AI generation device.

Of course, in 10 years everyone may be playing games in the cloud.

Not only that, but perhaps in the process more AI-generating features like individual asset generation and AI NPCs will be added to games in a piecemeal fashion.

That said, it does make one wonder if AI generation can replace the sweat and toil of talented artists and coders who work tirelessly to create content by hand, both from a moral and artistic standpoint. ai generated games can be fun to experiment with on a conceptual level would be fun to experiment with, but as to whether they can generate artistic or creative value remains to be seen.

It is also worth noting that Jensen and Nvidia as a whole have a vested interest in AI being used in every imaginable application, given the enormous revenues from the hardware business of figuring out AI.

Still, 10 years is still a relatively short time given the current rate of AI development, and the comments from Nvidia's CEO are an interesting glimpse into this potential future timeframe, at least from the perspective of someone who has a firm grasp of what is possible in this field .