“What’s in it for the player?”
Muchthe same as last year, AI remains the talk of the town at GDC 2024.
Roblox Studio has announced a new generative AI-based character creator.
Graphics card manufacturer Nvidia unveiled a new AI-powered chip, sending its stock price skyrocketing.
It’s important to stress the “prototype” factor here.
The goal with NEO NPCs is to do something that merges the two.
The demos were used as examples of what this technology might be used for in practice.
In the third scenario, we’re chatting with a different character called Iron.
The results were mixed, and gave a good insight into what NEO NPCs limitations might be.
As we progressed into the second and third demos, the characters remembered what we spoke about earlier on.
Being very early prototypes, conversations also bumped up against the usual limitations with LLM-driven chatbots.
Very little of the dialogue spoken would pass a human editor, for instance.
“Oh Nelson, you sure know how to win over the resistance,” demurred Bloom earlier on.
What’s more interesting is the somewhat existential dilemma that sits right at the heart of the prototype itself.
There was no mention of the training data for the models in use, for instance.
This includes non-LLM models like emotions, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and more.
Our goal is to provide you with the best and fastest answers.
“, and the attempts are there to try and match the technology to an actual gameplay use.
For the time being, this all remains purely speculative.
