These Nvidia AI NPCs Are Just as Obnoxious as Real Players

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Posted on 01/15/2025 2:41:10 PM PST by BenLurkin

The PUBG Ally is the same asinine experience of playing co-op with a bot, except this one always talks back to you in complete sentences. Krafton also uses Nvidia’s tech to craft inZOI, a Sims-type life simulator that puts chatbots in characters’ heads. Despite the AI supposedly planning and making life choices for the in-game characters, it still looked like a dull version of The Sims, lacking most of the charm of those games. I see the vision; it’s just not there yet.

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However, the real star was a talking mannequin head sitting like a gargoyle on your home desktop screen. it’s using the company’s neural faces, lip-syncing, text-to-voice, and skin models to try and make something “realistic.” In my estimation, it still lands on the wrong side of the uncanny valley.

The idea is you could talk to it like you would Copilot on Windows, but you can also drop files onto its forehead for the AI to read and regurgitate information from. Nvidia demoed this with an old PDF of the booklet that came with Doom 3 (as if to remind us when playing games on PC was as simple as buying and installing a disc). Based on the booklet, it could offer a rundown of the game’s story.

You can add a face to AI, but it will still just be a text-generation machine that doesn’t comprehend what it says. Nvidia mentioned it could add G-Assist to its animated assistant, but that wouldn’t make it any speedier, faster, or more reliable. It would still be a big black hole of AI taking up the bottom of your desktop, staring at you with lifeless eyes and an empty smile.

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1 posted on 01/15/2025 2:41:10 PM PST by BenLurkin

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