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Nvidia unveils new ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
products — including tool for making better NPC dialogue
Bloomberg29 May 2023
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Nvidia Corp. chief executive officer Jensen Huang unveiled a new
batch of products and services tied to artificial intelligence, looking to
further capitalize on a frenzy that has made his company the world’s
most valuable chipmaker.
1. Microsoft Corp.,
Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are expected to be some of
the first users of that equipment.
AI NPCs
And the company is even looking to change how people interact with video
games: A service called NVidia ACE for Games will use ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE to enliven background characters and give them more
personality.
Last week, Huang gave a stunning sales forecast for the current quarter —
almost $4 billion above analysts’ estimates — fuelled by demand for data-
centre chips that handle ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE tasks.
That sent the stock to a record high and put NVidia on the brink of a $1 trillion
valuation — a first for the chip industry.
Microsoft, Google and their peers are all racing to develop services similar to
Open ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Inc.’s Catgut Chabot — and that requires
plenty of computing horsepower.
To satisfy this appetite, NVidia is both offering equipment for data centres and
building its own supercomputers that customers can use.
AI NPCs
The UK advertising titan will use NVidia’s Omnivores technology to create
“virtual twins” of products that can be manipulated to customise ads and
reduce the need for costly reshoots.
NVidia’s original business was selling graphics cards to gamers, and it’s
returning to that world with the ACE offering.
The service will address the problem of NPCs, or nonpayer characters, the
background figures that populate video games.
NPCs typically give repetitive responses with scripted dialogue, and that
limited range has made them the subject of ridicule in memes and even
the Ryan Reynolds movie “Free Guy.”
NVidia ACE will listen to what the gamer says to a character, convert it into
text and then dump that into a generative ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
program to create a more natural, off-the-cuff response.
AI NPCs