NPCs

Nvidia I wasn’t a fan of the Covert Protocol demo that Nvidia showed me on a video call late last week. The short mystery demo features a handful of NPCs that are directed entirely by AI. There’s a door greeter, an executive waiting for a room, and a receptionist — ans all three featured what were, on the surface, bland dialogue trees generated with AI. At GDC 2024, trying out the demo myself, I was converted. My experience was slightly different than what I experienced through a hands-off demo last week. After it…

Some lucky players have gotten their hands on early copies of Dragon’s Dogma 2, but framerate issues are hampering the experience for some. A Capcom representative told IGN, “a large amount of CPU usage is allocated to each character and dynamically calculates the impact of their physical presence in various environments.” They added that this could be the cause for the framerate issues when “numerous characters appear simultaneously”. Dragon’s Dogma 2 on consoles doesn’t have the option to switch between a performance…

Ubisoft is using AI hoping to create a new kind of NPC that players can have more in-depth conversations with beyond predetermined lines of dialogue. Ubisoft's NEO NPC project is aiming to use generative AI to create NPCs that use their prewritten backstory and personality to create responses on the fly, aiming to create a "real conversation."As detailed in a blog post, NEO NPC has been in the works at Ubisoft Paris, utilizing Nvidia's Audio2Face and Inworld's Large Language Model. The goal is to have…

NVIDIA has been working on adding generative AI to non-playable characters (NPCs) for a while now. The company is hoping a newly-announced partnership with Ubisoft will accelerate development of this technology and, ultimately, bring these AI-driven NPCs to modern games.Ubisoft helped build new "NEO NPCs" by using NVIDIA’s Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) technology, with an assist from . The end result? Characters that don’t repeat the same phrase over and over, while ignoring the .These NEO NPCs are said to interact in real…

For the past three months, ever since I spoke to the AI NPCs in Nvidia’s cyberpunk ramen shop, I’ve been wondering: Which game developer will take a flying leap on this controversial and intriguing tech? If you said “Ubisoft,” the company that’s always raising its hand to play with VR, NFTs, interactive TV shows, secondary screens and more, you’d be half right.Last night, I played three prototype segments of an experimental Ubisoft demo featuring the company’s just-announced “Neo NPCs” — one of whom tried to convince me…

Non-player characters (NPCs) in video games generally have a pretty limited range. They might have a restricted number of canned responses to your questions but generally act as cannon fodder or story exposition.Convai, however, believes they have a lot more potential.Purnendu Mukherjee The AI firm turned heads at CES earlier this month at the Nvidia press conference, showcasing a technology that blended generative AI with NPCs and letting players have conversations with the in-game characters that weren’t scripted and…

The AI knows me as Kai, a bounty hunter in some vague cyberpunk city known as Kairos. Oh, but I am much more than that. I strolled into a ramen shop owned by the dull, affable Jin and patronized by the dull, professional Nova, and I weaved a yarn. I am not only a bounty hunter. I am a wizard bounty hunter and a member of a ramen bounty collective. I’m here to take Jin to the task of sampling his noodle supplier’s stock without paying.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech“If you rat me out to the noodle den, I…

If you’ve never tried a Skyrim mod before – either on PC or console – you are truly missing out. The vanilla release just doesn’t seem to cut it these days for a lot of fans, so the modding community has dedicated itself to making TES5 as brilliant, everlasting, and immersive as all get out. With that in mind, Nexus Mods user JaySerpa is back once more with further Skyrim improvements. This time, they’ve made it so NPCs react to being attacked by one of their friends. The video below shows it in action.…

Bethesda has rolled out a new patch for its sci-fi RPG Starfield, and it has some notable additions. The update introduces Nvidia DLSS support for PC players and the ability to eat and drink food found in the environment without picking it up.This patch, which was previously available to testers on Steam, is available now across PC and Xbox. For the Nvidia DLSS support, players with compatible Nvidia graphics cards can now use things like DLSS super resolution, deep learning anti-aliasing, Nvidia Reflex,…

Meta (formerly Facebook) is introducing its first artificial intelligence offering since the AI generator industry exploded in late 2022. The brand’s text-to-audio generator, called Voicebox is expected to be the voice equivalent of ChatGPT, which processes text prompts into detailed written results, and Dall-E which develops realistic artwork. Voicebox in turn will be able to take text prompts and produce audio clips, according to Engadget. Simon Cohen / Digital Trends Having trained the new generator on over…