{"id":229061,"date":"2026-01-15T01:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/sony-ai-patent-will-see-playstation-games-play-themselves-when-players-are-stuck"},"modified":"2026-01-15T01:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:21:21","slug":"sony-ai-patent-will-see-playstation-games-play-themselves-when-players-are-stuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/sony-ai-patent-will-see-playstation-games-play-themselves-when-players-are-stuck","title":{"rendered":"Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sony-ai-patent-will-see-playstation-games-play-themselves-when-players-are-stuck.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The AI-generated Ghost Player system appears to be an evolution of the PS5 Game Help system, which was launched alongside the <a class=link-relationship title=\"Platforms > PlayStation 5 [8,443 articles] href=https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/playstation\/ps5\/ PlayStation 5<\/a>. When supported, PS5 Game Help could provide players with guidance, via images or video, via the PS5 card system, which can be called up in-game.<\/p>\n<p>While not used widely, the system has been praised by <a class=link-relationship title=\"Platforms > PlayStation [11,413 articles] href=https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/playstation\/ PlayStation<\/a> fans who enjoy hunting trophies, due to the convenience of not having to call up a separate guide on another screen, such as a phone.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that there is no evidence that Sony has plans to use this technology in future hardware, and that patents like this have been filed by the firm, and many others, for years without any intention for use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AI-generated Ghost Player system appears to be an evolution of the PS5 Game Help system, which was launched alongside the PlayStation [11,413 articles] href=https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/playstation\/ PlayStation fans who enjoy hunting trophies, due to the convenience of not having to call up a separate guide on another screen, such as a phone. It is worth noting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}