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Ubisoft unveils generative AI "NEO NPCs", and the spirit of Peter Molyneux's Milo lives on
Much the same as last year, AI remains the talk of the town at GDC 2024. Roblox Studio has announced a new generative A…
In a brief panel discussion after the hands-on time, Mélanie Lopez Malet, senior data scientist on the R&D team, said they were only just "scratching the surface... implementation [in a real game] for me is not even on my radar." Iron asks us how we want to approach it and reacts accordingly to whatever we say, ultimately agreeing on one of a set list of actually playable options - for instance, using the tree by the window to grapple-hook into the building, or using the smoke grenades for cover, which we noticed were lying around the room and offered up as a suggestion. Doomed or not, like any self-respecting mammal, my first response to engaging in conversation with an artificial entity pretending to be a member of my species was to relentlessly poke fun at it - or at the very least, test the boundaries of its logic and see where it might fail.
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