AI doesn't have all that much application to gamedev - people think "videogames have lots of AI", and don't realize that "game AI" and "stable diffusion/GPT AI"

AI doesn't have all that much application to gamedev - people think "videogames have lots of AI", and don't realize that "game AI" and "stable diffusion/GPT AI" are about as related as Java and Javascript. Game "AI" is meant to be fun to play (and win) against, they're not meant to be smart; that's why zombie games are so successful. Most "game AI" are finite state machines, throwing a neural network at the issue would be absurd overkill. I'm sure there will be some AI applications in games (like procedural world generation or such, perhaps) but it's not the obvious connection that most people think.