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NVIDIA's AI NPCs are a nightmare
At CES 2025, NVIDIA made it plainly clear AI NPCs are around the corner, and I think they look genuinely awful.
While the use of generative AI in games seems almost inevitable, as the medium has always toyed with new methods for making enemies and NPCs seem smarter and more realistic, seeing several NVIDIA ACE demos back-to-back made me genuinely sick to my stomach. This wasn't just slightly smarter enemy AI — ACE can craft entire conversations out of thin air, simulate voices and try to give NPCs a sense of personality. Poke around NVIDIA's YouTube channel and you'll find other disappointing ACE examples, like the basic speaking animations in the MMO World of Jade Dynasty(above) and Alien: Rogue Incursion.
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