Nvidia Ace, a tool capable of creating AI-generated NPCs, is expanding – and major companies like Ubisoft and Tencent are signed on as partners.
I watched Nvidia pitch, and this will be aworrying trend for “offline” gamers, as to use this in-game feature, when the player speaks with the NPC, the game has to connect to nvidia servers for speech processing, and sent back to the game npc, so it’s done on nvidia cloud! I fail to see how you can play such game offline.
It’s very odd given that they are shilling their latest AI capable GPUs that somehow cannot handle speech processing, instead your voice will be synthized by Nvidia cloud if you want to play an AAA game.
This is just procedurally generated content like we’ve had for 15 years with the “AI” buzzword slapped on it.
Ubisofts wet dream, yes
They can also add prompts of things you have/haven’t done/purchased/achieved to the character LLM and have it generate a bit more contextual content.