Robox, an online game playing and building platform, said Monday that it has leveraged artificial intelligence to help Robox users better understand each other.
“Imagine that your new Roblox friend you’ve been chatting and joking with is actually in Korea and is typing in Korean the whole time, while you’re typing in English and neither of you notices. “, the company said.
AI integration allows users to communicate in more than 16 languages in real time using the standard Roblox chat window. Languages that AI can translate include Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, English, Russian, and Spanish.
Roblox says the latency for these translations is 100 milliseconds.
“Thanks to our new real-time AI chat translation, we are making possible in Roblox what is impossible in the physical world: enabling people who speak different languages to communicate seamlessly with each other in an immersive 3D environment. ” An announcement rang.
Roblox added that the addition of AI translator further improved engagement and session quality.
“Using AI to automate real-time translation in text chat eliminates language barriers and brings more people together, no matter where they live around the world,” Roblox said.
Although the platform can translate more than a dozen languages, Roblox admits that there may be problems translating less common languages, such as French, into Thai due to the lack of high-quality data available to train models.
“To address these gaps, we translated content back into its original language and then applied back-translation to increase accuracy compared to the original text,” Roblox said.
Roblox did not immediately respond. detoxification Request for comment.
Other game developers, including Blizzard Entertainment, Square Enix, and Ubisoft, have also joined Roblox and invested heavily in artificial intelligence.
In a quarterly earnings call last summer, Roblox co-founder and CEO David Baszucki said the company was using generative AI to create more dynamic games.
“We are entering an exciting new era on our platform,” said Baszucki. “Ultimately, we will enter an era of Roblox where anyone can create their own avatar or outfit 100% through text prompts. So if I or you want to create an outfit, we can describe it and see it being created in real time. do.”
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
