United Kingdom, Oct. 31 -- Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick doesn't think games like Grand Theft Auto VI could be made by artifical intelligence.

Speaking at CNBC's Technology Executive Council Summit, Zelnick doubled down on his long-held belief that while AI is a useful productivity tool, it cannot replicate the genius or originality that define hit games.

He said: "I'm enthusiastic about AI helping us do a better job, a more efficient job. But genius is the domain of human beings. You can't automate creativity."

He added: "No creativity can exist by definition in any AI model."

Zelnick - whose company Take-Two owns GTA studio Rockstar Games - described AI systems as "inherently derivative" because they rely on training data...