Nvidia ACE Brings AI to Game Characters, Allows Lifelike Conversations

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There are so many ways you can have a text chat with a large language model, from ChatGPT to Google Bard or MLC LLM, a local chatbot that can run on your phone. The next frontier for AI is bringing the power of LLMs to NPCs (non-player characters) in games where, instead of having a canned set of interactions, you can have a wide-open conversation. 

During its Computex 2023 keynote, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled ACE for Games, an AI model foundry service, designed to bring game characters to life using natural language conversation, audio-to-facial-expression and text-to-speech / speech-to-text capabilities. Huang showed a game demo where an NPC named Jin, who runs a ramen noodle shop, interacted with a human player who was asking questions with voice and getting back real-sounding answers that match the NPC’s backstory.

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