{"id":11871,"date":"2024-08-13T22:01:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T05:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11871"},"modified":"2024-08-09T22:37:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T05:37:39","slug":"npcs-in-nvidias-ace-demo-at-ces-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11871","title":{"rendered":"AI NPCs in NVIDIA&#8217;s ACE Demo at CES 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9482\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9482\">I&#8217;ve posted videos of AI powered NPC&#8217;s in games before<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.replicastudios.com\/blog\/smart-npc-plugin-release\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.replicastudios.com\/blog\/smart-npc-plugin-release\">Replica Studios<\/a>). NVIDIA&#8217;s Kairos ACE demo at CES 2024 was equally as amazing. It allows you to create NPC&#8217;s in game that that have their own backstories, agendas, and can interact to anything that a person throws at it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even more amazing, you can just talk to it like a regular person and it generates realtime voice acted responses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good demo of someone performing an extended interaction with the characters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NBRH1BxAGNw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This of course has all kinds of people in the game industry getting scared &#8211; especially voice actors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see the whole <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/ace\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/ace\">host of tools provided by nVidia ACE<\/a>. 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is truly revolutionary technology that is going to massively change the landscape of countless industries. You can watch it as it&#8217;s unfolding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/gaming\/convai-ai-purnendu-mukherjee\/\">https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/gaming\/convai-ai-purnendu-mukherjee\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted videos of AI powered NPC&#8217;s in games before (Replica Studios). NVIDIA&#8217;s Kairos ACE demo at CES 2024 was equally as amazing. It allows you to create NPC&#8217;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&#8217;s a good demo of someone performing an extended interaction with&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11871\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-35t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11874,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions\/11874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}