Game Characters Come to Life with Nvidia ACE's AI-Powered Conversations.
(Image credit: Tom's Hardware) There are numerous ways to text chat using a large language model, including ChatGPT, Google Bard, and MLC LLM, a mobile chatbot for your area. The ability to have a free-form conversation with NPCs (non-player characters) in games rather than using a pre-set set of interactions is the next frontier for AI. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled ACE for Games during the company's Computex 2023 keynote. This AI model foundry service uses natural language conversation, audio-to-facial expression, and text-to-speech / speech-to-text capabilities to bring game characters to life. Huang demonstrated a game in which a human player could converse with an NPC named Jin, who owns a ramen shop, and receive responses that sounded authentic and matched the NPC's backstory. In the demo, the player (who goes by the name of Kai) enters Jin's Ramen shop, asks him how he's doing (in voice), and they start talking about how dangerous the neighborhood is. Jin...