I’ve posted videos of AI powered NPC’s in games before (Replica Studios). NVIDIA’s Kairos ACE demo at CES 2024 was equally as amazing. It allows you to create NPC’s in game that that have their own backstories, agendas, and can interact to anything that a person throws at it.

Even more amazing, you can just talk to it like a regular person and it generates realtime voice acted responses.

Here’s a good demo of someone performing an extended interaction with the characters

This of course has all kinds of people in the game industry getting scared – especially voice actors.

You can see the whole host of tools provided by nVidia ACE. Besides game characters, there is Tokkio which provides interactive healthcare, retail, and IT customer service characters. Streaming ultra-realistic rendering, animation blending and playback, audio2face for facial animation and lip sync, and many others.

This is truly revolutionary technology that is going to massively change the landscape of countless industries. You can watch it as it’s unfolding.

Articles:

• https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/convai-ai-purnendu-mukherjee/