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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Nvidia debuted a new AI tool at Computex Taipei that targets the video game experience.</li><li>The tool could transform the way players interact with non-player characters.</li></ul>One video game alone can have dozens — if not hundreds — of non-player characters, or NPCs. Controlled by a computer, these characters range from Tom Nook, who runs the village store in "Animal Crossing," to Zelda, the princess of Hyrule and namesake of the Nintendo series.Over the past few decades, the graphics and basic dialogue of these characters may have advanced, but the interactions can still feel static and scripted.Chip-manufacturer Nvidia plans on using AI to change that.On Monday, Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO and cofounder, delivered a two-hour talk about the company's future hardware and AI services to kick off <a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?h=37e94640c72a2c22450e699c973b173c0581e419a94f961fdbedc8e8015e156d&amp;postID=6476101009600b5f0d6c211c&amp;site=bi&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nvidia.com%2Fen-us%2Fevents%2Fcomputex%2F%3Fnvid%3Dnv-int-bnr-618563%23cid%3Dcmptx23e_nv-int-bnr_en-us">Computex,</a> the annual computer expo in Taipei.<a href="https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-ace-for-games-sparks-life-into-virtual-characters-with-generative-ai">Avatar Cloud Engine — or ACE —</a> is a new custom AI service that can be deployed by game developers in order to make conversations and general interactions with NPCs feel more realistic. The core principles of ACE are related to real-time conversations and animated facial expressions.ACE's large language models allow NPCs to have backstories, personalities, and goals, enabling player interactions that fit into the context of the game, <a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?h=3cc384347ed3069178440b931da86fc38456843654c8d8228476f514a555bc3e&amp;postID=6476101009600b5f0d6c211c&amp;site=bi&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nvidia.com%2Fen-us%2Fgeforce%2Fnews%2Fnvidia-ace-for-games-generative-ai-npcs%2F">according to a press release </a>. Additionally, ACE is equipped with technology that gives NPCs automatic speech recognition, meaning they can respond to a player's speech patterns, according to <a href="https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/essential-guide-to-automatic-speech-recognition-technology/">Nvidia</a>. These characters will also be able to generate facial expressions based on the audio inputs they receive, <a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?h=3cc384347ed3069178440b931da86fc38456843654c8d8228476f514a555bc3e&amp;postID=6476101009600b5f0d6c211c&amp;site=bi&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nvidia.com%2Fen-us%2Fgeforce%2Fnews%2Fnvidia-ace-for-games-generative-ai-npcs%2F">Nvidia said</a>. Here's the technology in action in a fictitious game called "Kairos":The video shows Jin, an NPC and the owner of a ramen shop, bearing a pained facial expression as he explains the rise in crime around his restaurant. What separates this brief interaction from encounters in other video games is the way Jin reacts and responds to the player."Although he is an NPC, Jin replies to natural language queries realistically and consistent with the narrative backstory — all with the help of generative AI," Nvidia said in its press release.Nvidia did not respond to Insider's request for comment. The announcement of ACE arrives as Nvidia is exploding in value. In just one day last week, the Santa Clara-based company added more than <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/nvidia-jensen-huang-wealth-net-worth-nvda-stock-artificial-intelligence-2023-5?utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_source=markets">$200 billion to its market cap</a>, the biggest one-day market value gain in history.Originally a company focused on computer graphics, Nvidia has been on the forefront of generative AI as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/your-next-job-depends-on-understanding-ai-like-chatgpt-2023-5">ChatGPT</a> is powered by the company's <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/nvidia-stock-ai-race-artificial-intelligence-wall-street-gpu-huang-2023-5?_gl=1*18eacpu*_ga*NDY2MzYxODUxLjE2ODQ3NzE5NDY.*_ga_E21CV80ZCZ*MTY4NTQ2MTUwNS4xMjQuMC4xNjg1NDYxNTA1LjYwLjAuMA..">H-100 graphic processor unit</a>, or GPU. This chip allows for conversational AI to be functional by speeding up the capacity of a chatbot as it constructs responses based on text prompts. During his keynote at Computex, Huang also touched on AI serving as a bridge for the digital divide. He said that with modern AI tools, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-turn-anyone-into-programmer-nvidia-ceo-2023-5">anyone can be a programmer.</a>

This video shows how Nvidia's AI could transform the experience of talking to video game characters

“Who are you?” I asked. “What exactly are you trying to say,” she responded by narrowing her eyebrows and giving an irritated expression. Realising my grave mistake, I quickly rephrased my question, “Sorry, I meant who are you, princess?” “Yes, I am <keyword id="23472418" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Princess-Yun-Ni" source="keywords">Princess Yun Ni</keyword> of the Jungle tribe,” she replied with a pleasant expression. No, I did not find a time machine to teleport to the times of kings and queens. I was talking to an in-game Non-Player Character (NPC) using a button at <keyword id="19912297" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Nvidia" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Nvidia" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Nvidia">Nvidia</keyword>’s recent AI PC showcase in Bengaluru. And if Nvidia manages to partner with more developers, these AI-powered NPCs might just be the future of <keyword id="19907576" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="gaming" source="keywords">gaming</keyword>! <h2>Talking to an <keyword id="23472417" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="AI-powered-NPC" source="keywords">AI-powered NPC</keyword> </h2> Coming back to my conversation with Princess Yun Ni of the tribe, I was quite intrigued when I first came across the AI-powered NPC. Nvidia partnered with <keyword id="23472419" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Perfect-World-Games" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Perfect World Games" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Perfect World Games">Perfect World Games</keyword> for this demo and it caught almost every participant’s attention at <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/nvidia-hosts-geforce-rtx-ai-pcs-showcase-in-bengaluru-top-ai-tools-to-look-forward-to/articleshow/113741061.cms">NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX AI PC event</a> in Bengaluru last month. Clad in royal attire, the princess looked at me straight while answering my questions. I was also told that the AI-powered character has some context and is aware that I am from “another world”. Intriguing, huh!?! After (a rather awkward) introduction, I asked what Yun Ni was doing and she responded, “I am resting after a ritual, seeking information to help my tribe.” The unique thing about Yun Ni, that made her different from anything I had ever seen before, was how her facial expressions kept changing as the conversation flowed. The NPC character also exuded confidence and a tinge of attitude, befitting a princess. To further test her reactions, I decided to steer the conversation a bit off-topic. “I have that information,” I said, referring to what could help her tribe. And the moment I said that, her expression changed and she seemed more curious. <div type="image" title="de8f4c66-925b-44c7-b042-8ba7a07f68ef." height="900" width="1200" msid="114041047" hostid="261"></div> “What do you know,” she asked while flinging her arms in the air like we, as humans do at times. “I am not gonna tell you,” I responded. To my surprise, she replied, “Suit yourself. I am not here to beg.” This was the time when I felt I was in the middle of a Black Mirror episode, talking to an AI character who was actually responding to my questions with a personality of their own. But hold on, it doesn’t stop here. <h2>Spooky, yet intriguing—glimpse into the future of gaming</h2> From Black Mirror to Her, we’ve all seen countless fictitious tales that explore the fascinating, yet unsettling, dynamics of human-AI relationships. In these narratives, conversations with AI often begin as innocent and intriguing interactions, offering a glimpse into the potential of seamless, personalised communication. However, it doesn't take long before these dialogues take a darker turn. But that need not be the case! Interacting with an AI-powered NPC can also enhance the gaming experience and stimulate and challenge us even further. Here's how my conversation with the princess continued: “But if you do (beg) it might help your people,” I prodded. She responded with the same air of attitude and said, “I have my ways, begging isn’t one of them.” I then told the princess that I would help her on one condition—if she told me a secret. I had expected she would come up with some repetitive response or something that would sound robotic but that was not the case. The princess then displayed one of the most human traits ever—trust issues. “I don’t trade secrets with strangers,” she said. When I reiterated that doing so might help her people, she replied, “I don’t trust easily, you need to prove your worth.” I then said that I knew someone who had the information and lived in her world. “Interesting, who is this one,” she asked and I said, “That’s a secret I am not going to share.” “Then we have nothing more to discuss,” the princess replied. Trying to see if she is aware of the anger emotion, I asked, “Are you angry?” To this, the princess said, “No, just tired of pointless games.” (Burn). The demo isn’t out for the public yet but gives a glimpse of what the future of gaming could hold. <div type="image" title="ac486817-8da0-43de-b509-c8d1080cd004." height="900" width="1200" msid="114041083" hostid="261"></div> Nvidia had also talked about this demo in a blog post last month. The post read, “Global game publisher and developer Perfect World Games is advancing its NVIDIA ACE and digital human technology demo, Legends, with new AI-powered vision capabilities. Within the demo, the character Yun Ni can see gamers and identify people and objects in the real world using the computer’s camera powered by ChatGPT-4o, adding an <keyword id="19900656" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="augmented-reality" source="keywords">augmented reality</keyword> layer to the gameplay experience.” <h2>Scope for AI-powered NPCs in gaming</h2> NPCs (non-player characters) have been a part of the gaming world for as long as we can remember. Be it the retro games like Mario or the more recent ones like GTA V, NPCs have been a part of almost every title. However, these characters are often programmed to give certain fixed responses and behave in a fixed way. For instance, in all of the GTA games, you will often hear pedestrians say a certain set of dialogues when you walk past them. Thus, actions and words of NPCs are often quite predictable. However, with what I saw during Nvidia’s demo, things might change in the near future. <div type="Article" hostid="261" msid="113902265" title="Nvidia’s ChatRTX could be your alternative to ChatGPT for reading long documents, and it doesn’t need an internet connection" mstype="2" mssubtype="0"></div> For instance, imagine a GTA game with such AI-powered NPCs. Rumours about GTA VI are already doing rounds and some had even said that NPCs this time would be more intelligent and have lives of their own. But if those NPCs could get these <keyword id="19896272" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="generative-AI" source="keywords">generative AI</keyword> powers and could give responses like these, the whole experience would change. Many of us would spend hours just talking to the various NPCs in the world. Similarly, think of how a friendly NPC could serve as an in-game guide for new players. If you get stuck somewhere, all you need to do is call up your NPC buddy and ask for what can be done next. The possibilities are endless. And once more developers are on board, we could be looking at some amazing things.

I talked to an AI-powered NPC thanks to Nvidia! True to her character, she surprised me with her princess attitude

The world is talking about AI and many companies are investing in the emerging technology to keep up in the race. <keyword id="19912297" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Nvidia" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Nvidia" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Nvidia">Nvidia</keyword> has been a frontrunner in the AI race and often unveils new tools to give its users AI superpowers and make their lives easier. On Thursday (September 26), Bangalore played host to NVIDIA’s <keyword id="23343330" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="GeForce-RTX" source="keywords">GeForce RTX</keyword> AI PC tour. The event highlighted the transformative power of AI in gaming, creativity, content creation and beyond. The tour also offered a first-hand experience of how NVIDIA’s cutting-edge GeForce RTX technology is setting new benchmarks for AI-powered computing. <h2>AI-powered NPCs with ACE</h2> NVIDIA highlighted its <keyword id="22863636" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Avatar-Cloud-Engine" source="keywords">Avatar Cloud Engine</keyword> (ACE), a game-changing solution that allows developers to integrate lifelike generative AI models into their games. Using this technology, non-player characters (NPCs) in games can engage in intelligent, dynamic conversations with players. The tour demonstrated ACE in action, with two upcoming titles—Mecha Break from Amazing Seasun Games and Legends by Perfect World Games—showing off how ACE can create more immersive and personalised gaming experiences. The demo highlighted how AI-powered NPCs could be the next big thing in gaming and once more developers are on board, gamers might be able to enjoy this experience on many new titles. <h2>NVIDIA Omniverse Audio2Face and <keyword id="21731033" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="DLSS-3-5" source="keywords">DLSS 3.5</keyword> </h2> The GeForce RTX AI PC Tour wasn’t just about gaming—it also underscored NVIDIA’s commitment to fostering creativity. NVIDIA Omniverse Audio2Face stole the spotlight by demonstrating how simple audio input can be used to generate detailed facial animations and lip-sync for characters. This technology, popular among video game developers, allows for the creation of ultra-realistic characters with minimal effort, opening up new possibilities for animators and game designers. For gamers, DLSS 3.5 with ray reconstruction was a focal point, particularly in the highly anticipated title Star Wars: Outlaws. This AI-driven technology enhances the game’s visuals by using deep learning to upscale lower-resolution images in real-time, providing ultra-smooth gameplay and photorealistic graphics even on mid-range GPUs. NVIDIA’s Reflex technology also made an appearance, reducing system latency and making games feel more responsive—a key benefit for players seeking a competitive edge. John Gillooly, NVIDIA’s Technical Product Marketing Manager for Asia Pacific South, was on hand to demonstrate the practical applications of these technologies. He shared that the company’s GeForce RTX AI systems are designed not only to enhance gaming but also to empower industries such as content creation, research, and more. <h2>Comfy UI for generating images and <keyword id="23343331" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="ChatRTX" source="keywords">ChatRTX</keyword> for writing</h2> Nvidia also showcased ComfyUI, a popular Stable Diffusion app for generating images using AI. The AI-based image generator can turn selfies into superhero avatars in seconds, thanks to the lightning-fast processing power of RTX GPUs. Another demo that caught attention was of ChatRTX, a personalised AI chatbot that leverages NVIDIA’s retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and TensorRT-LLM to deliver contextually relevant answers. Running entirely on a user’s RTX PC, ChatRTX offers a fast, secure chatbot experience that works without the need for an internet connection—ideal for users concerned about privacy and data security. <h2>About GeForce RTX <keyword id="20930704" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="AI-PCs" source="keywords">AI PCs</keyword> </h2> At the core of NVIDIA’s latest offerings are Tensor Cores, the AI accelerators that form the backbone of all GeForce RTX GPUs. These dedicated cores are designed to handle a wide range of AI tasks, from advanced game mechanics to content creation, academic research, and more. With over 100 million GeForce RTX and NVIDIA RTX GPUs already in users’ hands worldwide, the event underlined NVIDIA’s leadership in AI-powered computing, showcasing how its technology enables over 500 AI applications and 370 AI-enhanced games. Another standout revelation from the event was NVIDIA’s assertion that GeForce RTX-equipped PCs can deliver between 200 to 1,300 trillion operations per second (TOPs) in AI performance. This is a staggering leap, far surpassing laptops with traditional neural processing units (NPUs), which typically max out at just 45 TOPs. The event also highlighted NVIDIA’s broad compatibility with leading open-source large language models (LLMs), including Google Gemini, Llama 2, and OpenAI Whisper. These integrations allow GeForce RTX systems to serve a wide range of AI-driven applications, from content creation to conversational AI tools, further underscoring the versatility of the technology.

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Scammers are using ChatGPT to infiltrate online games for a quick cash grabMost of the furious speculation on how artificial intelligence will shape our lives is far off possibilities — humanity-destroying pitfalls or world-altering solutions that will take years to manifest. But there is one place where AI is already starting to shape people's experiences in noticeable ways: online games.In massively multiplayer online role-playing games, millions of people meet up to explore, compete, and collaborate in expansive virtual universes. MMO hype has cooled since the aughts, but the games still cater to sizable, committed audiences that have helped launch <a href="https://headphonesaddict.com/world-of-warcraft-player-count/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">powerful franchises</a> such as "World of Warcraft," "Guild Wars 2," and "Path of Exile." These communities even have built-in game cultures and economies complex enough to spawn a litany of <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1655084" target="_blank" rel="noopener">academic research</a>.But these worlds are hounded by a growing problem: bots. Since many MMOs use simple point-and-click interfaces and reward players for completing repetitive tasks, nefarious actors can easily use automated scripts to reap in-game rewards at an inhuman pace. And those rewards can then be sold for real cash on secondary markets. While bots have long been a scourge to gaming communities, their inability to hold a conversation with players had made them easy to spot. But a new ChatGPT plug-in that hit the market in March has made it possible for bots to more realistically mimic human players, leaving the real human players unable to report bad actors and developers scrambling to find a solution. The AI-driven technology not only threatens to transform these decadesold games but also offers a glimpse into a strange, new reality in which it is virtually impossible to distinguish humans from robots.<h2>'You won't be able to tell if you're talking with a bot'</h2>No game is plagued with bots today as much as "Old School RuneScape," a nostalgia-rich 2013 relaunch of the genre-defining adventure game by the British developer Jagex. In "OSRS," players inhabit the fantasy world of Gielinor, where they can slay monsters, build homes, mine, farm, and complete quests. In the decade since its launch, "OSRS" has grown to nearly 2 million active players, and the MMO Populations <a href="https://mmo-population.com/top/2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">project</a> ranks it as one of the busiest MMOs."OSRS" is appealing for bot operators, or "botters," because the game is fairly simple — it rewards repetitive tasks with digital gold, and the rudimentary enemies make it easy to create a program to slay predictable monsters with valuable loot. Add in <a href="https://www.polygon.com/features/2020/5/27/21265613/runescape-is-helping-venezuelans-survive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a large black market in which players resell virtual currency or powerful items for real cash</a>, and there's a significant incentive to deploy bots. While it's hard to nail down the exact number of nonhuman accounts, according to players I've spoken with and estimates based on the number of accounts Jagex bans each week, roughly one-quarter to one-third of the players logged on at any given moment are bots. While Jagex officially prohibits both bot farms and real-world trading of in-game goods, <a href="https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2019/11/21/venezuelas-paper-currency-is-worthless-so-its-people-seek-virtual-gold" target="_blank" rel="noopener">both have persisted despite periodic clampdowns</a>. SirPugger, a YouTuber who reports on bots, has documented bot farms that rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Based on the scams he's weeded out, he said there could be millions of dollars traded across the various websites that comprise the "RuneScape" <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/25/china-prisoners-internet-gaming-scam" target="_blank" rel="noopener">black market</a> each year. Since his videos cause problems for people who make money in a legal gray area and violate the game's terms of service, SirPugger declined to share his real name.Botters generally fall into two categories, SirPugger told me. One is the average-Joe player who uses automated bot services to cheat their way to a higher skill level and skip less-interesting parts of the game. The other is organized operations that run "bot farms," or large groups of bots, to collect in-game currency en masse to sell on the secondary markets. According to SirPugger's research, people can make up to six figures a year on the game's black market.In "OSRS," botting hotspots have overrun areas of the game that are home to profitable loot-earning activities, making them inaccessible to legitimate players. Bots also make it virtually impossible for human players to place on leaderboards that track in-game accomplishments.These headaches have forced Jagex's anti-cheating team into an arms race with bot developers. It rolls out increasingly sophisticated mechanisms for identifying and banning their accounts that are inevitably met with countermoves from botters. Given the technological dance, the company's most reliable bot-detection tool has been the community itself: Players can report accounts that they suspect of being run by third-party scripts. But ChatGPT integration threatens to make this grassroots solution a thing of the past.Almost immediately after OpenAI released an update in early March, botters started hooking their scripts up to ChatGPT. Less than two weeks later, a developer at OSBot — which bills itself as "the most popular" bot provider for "Old School RuneScape" — <a href="https://osbot.org/forum/topic/175653-script-factory-chatgpt-support/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on an internal forum advertising a new capacity to run scripts that hold coherent conversations.At first, these "conversational bots" were clunky, SirPugger said — if you asked a bot the same question twice, it wouldn't notice. But the bots using ChatGPT began to rapidly improve, and SirPugger realized the automated players would soon become almost indistinguishable from human players. "Now it's able to read previous conversations, so it has context for whatever you're talking about," SirPugger told me recently about the talking bots. "Now it would be like, 'Why are you asking me that again?' Or like, 'I already told you, but here's some more supplemental information.'"Using third-party apps such as Bot Detector, which operate similar to how an AI text-generation checker works, some players have been able to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbTsHEPMQoo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">document</a> interactions with likely GPT-integrated bot scripts. In some cases, these AI-powered bots seemed to commiserate with real players, even complaining about the overabundance of bots. In one interaction SirPugger saw, a bot mimed a grouchy longtimer who ribbed and insulted nearby players: "We're quickly approaching a state where you won't be able to tell if you're talking with a bot." <h2>Human or AI? Does it matter?</h2>In his 2010 novella, "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," the science-fiction writer Ted Chiang imagined a near future of digital worlds — something like a functional version of Mark Zuckerberg's disastrously underwhelming <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5">metaverse</a> — populated by human-piloted avatars and AI beings. The story asks: If interacting with a digital "life-form" could be as complex as the real thing, does it matter whether you're interacting with a real person?Today's chatbots are nowhere near as lifelike as the AI of Chiang's imagination, but MMO players are already beginning to face the question he posed. If bots were truly indistinguishable from human players — to the extent that they could maintain long-term friendships and partake in social activities in MMOs — would it be a bad thing? Or would they actually make the world feel more enriching?On one hand, making bots impossible to weed out would permanently warp the economics of these games. Even without the ability to communicate and socialize, bots have come to <a href="https://partnerkin.com/en/blog/case_study/bot-farming-world-of-warcraft" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dominate substantial portions</a> of the largest in-game MMO economies. At the same time, bot scripts could eventually enhance rather than detract from the social aspects of online games. Online shooters like "PUBG" and "Fortnite" already populate their multiplayer lobbies with AI bots, but the social emphasis of MMOs means that they are uniquely well positioned to reap the prospective benefits of chatbot integration. Worlds would appear to become more populous, and though "real" players might still be cheated out of leaderboard slots, they wouldn't necessarily know it. As SirPugger put it, "I like multiplayer games because of the player interaction. So all of a sudden, you have more 'players' in the game because you can't tell that they're bots. Bots are suddenly kind of this positive externality."Some hobbyists and industry players have already picked up on the prospective upsides to AI-scripted bots in games — not rogue bots run by nefarious players trying to make money but intentionally placed characters called "nonplayer characters" that have been beefed up with an AI chat function. A fan-made ChatGPT-powered modification for the popular <a href="https://opendatascience.com/skyrim-mod-powered-by-chatgpt-gives-npcs-memories/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" game, for example,</a> allows the in-game characters to form memories of past interactions with the player. On the industry side, Replica Studios <a href="https://venturebeat.com/games/replica-unveils-ai-powered-smart-npcs-for-unreal-engine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently unveiled</a> AI-powered NPCs that could hold complex conversations with players. And gamers are open to the idea of improving the feel of games via AI. A <a href="https://inworld.ai/whitepapers/future-of-npcs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published by Inworld AI, a developer platform that is trying to bring AI to gaming, said 99% of gamers it surveyed said they believed that incorporating AI NPCs would positively affect gameplay, while 78% said they would spend more time playing a game with it."Humans are storytellers," Kylan Gibbs, a cofounder and the chief product officer of Inworld AI, said in an <a href="https://aimagazine.com/articles/gamers-want-to-spend-more-time-and-money-talking-to-ai-npcs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with AI Magazine. "We're drawn to narratives that help us to make sense of the world around us. The same thing is true in the gaming world — the more immersive and believable a story is, the more we want to stay inside it."Whatever one makes of Gibbs' "Matrix"-esque idea, significant hurdles to widespread integration remain. AI language models are still prone to dispensing false and inconsistent information, which would make it tough for major video-game developers to add them to games. And while a player might feel more engaged talking to an AI player than clicking through scripted dialogue, a free-form interaction would be far less likely to give them relevant information to advance in the storyline.Given the murkiness of AI's potential, the present substance is such that people can see almost anything they want to see. But the rapid integration of ChatGPT and other AI technologies into games in nonsanctioned ways shows some of the pitfalls — and potential — of creating virtual spaces that humans can cohabit on apparently equal footing with highly responsive robots. Moving forward, these will likely continue to serve as test cases, sites of experimentation and indicators of how to deploy the technology in helpful or harmful ways.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/evan-malmgren" rel="">Evan Malmgren</a> is a writer who covers power and infrastructure and is currently working on a book about American off-gridders.

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