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Razer Project Ava: would you pay an AI to help you get good at games?

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(There’s also a long conversation about how “female” AI can perpetuate harmful stereotypes, but at least Razer global marketing director David Ng tells us it’ll offer other voices in the future.) Ava knows where the enemy’s champions are because it’s taking pictures of the mini-map, and it knows what you might want to use to counter them — though its answers were delayed by multiple seconds in the prototype we saw, which ran on a pair of local Nvidia RTX 4090 laptop GPUs using Meta’s Llama 3.2 LLM instead of in the cloud. (It imagines Ava could help you auto-configure your computer, act as an autonomous gaming companion, and serve as a raid leader if no one wants to spend their time organizing the group.)

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