{"id":66944,"date":"2026-05-21T14:21:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T05:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=66944"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T05:25:06","slug":"capcom-engineers-say-even-the-smartest-ai-cant-match-our-creators-when-it-comes-to-sensibility-the-technology-is-being-adopted-to-reduce-routin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-engineers-say-even-the-smartest-ai-cant-match-our-creators-when-it-comes-to-sensibility-the-technology-is-being-adopted-to-reduce-routin\/","title":{"rendered":"Capcom engineers say even the smartest\u00a0AI \u201ccan\u2019t match our creators when it comes to sensibility.\u201d\u00a0The technology is\u00a0being adopted to reduce\u00a0\u201croutine tasks\u201d\u00a0instead\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In its recent shareholder briefings, Capcom has said that it will not be using AI-generated assets<\/a> in its games, but that it does plan to use the technology to boost its efficiency and productivity in game development. While these statements have been quite general, Capcom\u2019s engineers recently shared some more details on their policy regarding generative AI, as well as the nature of the company\u2019s collaboration with Google Cloud and agentic AI adoption. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talking to 4Gamer<\/a>, Capcom\u2019s game development platform and AI solutions VP Shinichi Inoue says the company does not plan to use AI for the creation of graphical and other game assets. \u201cWhat we in the entertainment industry consider extremely important in contrast to artificial intelligence is human sensibility. Even top-tier AI still cannot match our creators when it comes to sensibility. That\u2019s the current reality. Because of that, concentrating human effort on work requiring this kind of sensibility is more efficient from the standpoint of human capital management, and it\u2019s also important for coexistence with creators,\u201d he explains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, this seems to somewhat contradict Capcom\u2019s experimental AI initiatives from 2025<\/a>, when the company announced it was working with Google Cloud to figure out a way to streamline the process of brainstorming and conceptualizing the tens of thousands of objects needed for an AAA game (an example used at the time was that of coming up with a fictional TV design for a game\u2019s environment). While this workflow was intended for the proposal stage and not final asset production, it seems to clash with Capcom\u2019s current stance on not using AI for the creation of in-game assets, suggesting the company might have changed its views somewhere along the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is Capcom using AI for, then? According to Inoue, streamlining\u00a0testing\u00a0and communication-related tasks is the most urgent\u00a0challenge\u00a0AAA development faces, because this\u00a0\u201croutine work\u201d\u00a0increases\u00a0exponentially as games grow in scale.\u00a0That\u2019s\u00a0why his team is working on\u00a0a\u00a0playtesting system\u00a0that\u00a0leverages\u00a0Gemini alongside several AI\u00a0agents\u00a0trained in-house.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe AI reports its findings to debugging check agents, but rather than leaving everything to humans, another agent first evaluates the reports against the game director\u2019s concept. A huge volume of this checking and evaluation work is carried out while humans are asleep. After that, the system screens for issues that are highly likely to be \u2018incorrect when compared to the game\u2019s intended concept\u2019 and presents them. Because the AI performs these checks in advance, humans no longer need to carry out enormous amounts of manual verification work themselves,\u201d Inoue tells 4Gamer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a press release by Google Cloud<\/a> from April, Capcom\u2019s playtesting system handles about 30,000 hours of testing work per month, freeing up developers\u2019 hands significantly. The AI agents use Gemini Vision to \u201clook\u201d at the game screen and discover technical failures, while distinguishing actual errors from intentional design choices based on data they\u2019re trained on. Additionally, the AI analyzes past data to predict where the game system is likely to \u201cbreak\u201d next and prioritizes testing high-risk areas instead of testing randomly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related: Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii wants AI game characters to feel like real \u201cfriends,\u201d hopes DQ10 players will confide in Slimey chatbot<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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