As I walk up to the receptionist "Ayo, someone demolished the bathroom. You might need to a cleaning crew for that."

I know this is early days, but the vocal performances and character expressions are on the level of Elder Scrolls Oblivion.

Can NPCs have fully AI generated conversations between one another? Cuz I bet that shit could get wild.

The question is: Can the AI feed its Experiences inside the game dynamically into its backstory? If so then sandbox games with npc's are in for a huge story-boost

0:35, bro definitely lifts. look at those bad boys

Uncanny Valley is strong on this one. Waiting for the moment such a video will be played and at the end they state "all presenters were rendered in real time"

That sounds pretty interesting. It could really add to the replayability of games if implemented correctly.

I can see a surge in Adventure games when this is perfected. Imagine a detective series.

We've seen how amazing the Skyrim A.I. Companion mod can be, having that in more games? Sign. Me. Up!

One thing I noticed about this is that for this to work you need to connect to their servers for every interaction and the Inworld servers will return to the client the result of the AI interaction. That means this only works for always-online games? Does the developer need to pay for every interaction done in every game sold if we go over 5000 interactions per month or over $50000 revenue (from what I read in their FAQ)? If these are the cases I'm not gonna lie it sounds a bit unsustainable

RPGs and open world games are about to be alot more immersive and unique

Imagine Hitman with AI npcs. You can try to fool them or do some stuff to help you with the mission. For some reson Hitman is one of the first games that came to mind, also GTA.

It will be very interesting to play with these AI-minded npcs.

It sounds great on paper, but it doesn't really correlate with what is being shown. Facial animations and "acting" is horrible for this level of graphics. And three different responses with several outcomes isn't anything new.

Some in the comments are complaining about the graphics completely missing the point of this demo.

Imagine the lively feeling that you'll get in games in the future with this tech. Interaction sith thr world around you will be on a different level ❤❤

Awesome, this will greatly advance the immersion of the game. When you can talk to any npcs. These are the first steps towards ai being able to seem alive. Right now secondary characters are being spelled out, but in the future this will greatly enrich optional quests, level serve, fetch. (Though of course I'd prefer not to have those quests at all, but getting them from "a live" one is at least something.) Unfortunately, so far, such models are created for short insignificant dialogs and they do not possess scripting skills. But hopefully this will make the work of scriptwriters easier, and the language models themselves will become more flexibly customizable

Came here because The Verge unfortunately described this as "Covert Protocol, a playable tech demo" - and I assumed that means *I* can play it. For now, there's "Inworld Origins" on Steam for free, using GPT-3.5. A very early, simple tech demo - but it's fun to hear the different NPCs, trying to stay in-character. I convinced an AI character to provide code after it initially refused as not relevant to the job of investigating the crime scene, insisting that we could import a Boston Dynamics "Spot" with a CLIP model for visual analysis of the crime scene... so AI went like "import torch, import os, import clip" and so on, lol. Fun if that would cause downstream confusion and hallucinations of other NPCs now believing there's a robo-dog in the game; I can't wait! 😀

To the guys at NVIDIA, just learn what CDPR did with cyberpunk. That needs to be the benchmark

Imagine an Animal Crossing where your neighbors share new stories every day, engaging in truly meaningful conversations. It's a dream come true. However, given that AC is a Nintendo brand, the next "innovation" will likely be Voice dubbing in four to five years. But in 10 years, things could get really interesting. Maybe.

The facial expressions were ridiculous, the movement of the mouth looks like Origami.

Perhaps I'll be around for a few good AI games.

That is very cool. But what I would like is for AI simulated experiences not just different speech with the same scripted outcome. Like more of a live gameworld whee anything can happen. Something like A-life from Stalker series could be improved amazingly using modern AI.

Need this in Cyberpunk 2077!

Nice tech demo, just give them a few decades and this will be really sg in games as well

Future Hitman games will be even more fun and immersive

Quantity over quality. Todd Howard should be giving you guys a call soon.

This and nemesis system in an open world GTA like game would go so hard

Ill wait for the day you use a mic and just talk to npcs and ai is used to respond. That will be a cool experience.

The corporate speak is strong in this video lol.

WOW STUNNING!

It s the beginning. There s a lot of work to do... but ... WOW

Amazing!!!!

All the articles I've seen about this is complaining about how they suck and actors/coders are still needed but nope. In a few short years I'll be able to just ask my computer to make elder scrolls 10 in space with table top rpg elements but also as a shooter just to make the system really take 8 seconds to make me a 400+ hour game on the fly. Oh and if I don't like something or want more content, I ask the system for more content.

I want a downloadable demo please!!

The beginning steps. Gamers will be eating good in a few years!

Stiff asf. If we this implemented, what about voice actors then ?

westworld is getting closer

Imagine this and Jali together, oh boy.

Wow I can’t wait to go AFK in one of these games and cause an AI to have an existential crisis!

This needs more time

The best rendered NPC was the VP ...

After seeing last Unreal Engine Presentation these characters look like from 2018

Parallel came first, love to see it

They really nailed the quality of characters of Bethesda single player games, and this isn't a compliment.

a whole new level of lifeless dialogue

AI is changing everything!

This should increase the level of gaming! Great!

It works until actual players get to play it. The minute people start saying random stuff it's gonna just break.

Was that Bayashi in there? 😲

All people shown from this video are AI.

Ok, I don't want to downplay this, but everything here is really pretty easy to do. If the price is good then fine, but LLMs and voice input/output really are amazingly easy to do these days with the services avaliable. If it's locally hosted then yes, that's much harder. What services are they using? Opensource LLMs? Local voice synth?

Dam, that Yasmina is a beauty.

for download?

This is where they tell you, everyone and everything in this trailer, was and is A.I including Yasmina, Kylan and Igor, meanwhile, you're tech can only handle the other CPC's the real tech being utilized are these three which are aformentioned.

My eyes are focused on Kylan’s arms 😂

Can we use it in unreal engine 5?

OMG 0:34 guy looks like Heinrich Himmler

Good luck to everyone who makes game walkthrough's and guides for games that use this tech. 😂

We need to make a new law that forbidden use all data from Nvidia and videogame to make a robot in real life

Soooo.... when can we initiate an actual conversation with an A.I. that is constrained within a game world? I wonder how many conversations you could have about breaking the fourth wall... haha. It'd be cool though.

I don't care about AI NPC's if they still sound robotic and can't use inflection... when they get the AI to do that I will be way more impressed.

This again isn't AI. This is just a giant IF statement. The AI model isn't spontaneously deciding anything

What happens when you repeat the same prompt to an NPC multiple times over? +10 points if they lose their temper and tell you to bugger off.

Mass effect andromeda?

I cannot wait to tell NPCs to either "f off" or "stop following so close to me!"

I am wondering how much the interviewed Persons are real...? 🤔

Very weak AI performance! NPCs look, talk and feel like as if they were from video games from the early 2000s. Nothing new nor great has been accomplished, with this video.

You know the tech is there, where they have to explain what you are observing... If they didn't say it's AI, I would be mislead to believe, it is some sort of student project, where the characters have 3 random lines. But now I understand better. Thank you.

I'll gladly wait for this to be great in a few years, but for now, this is just nightmare fuel...

Holly Molly

Develop ❌ Devlop ✅

Yessss, sold it to CD Projekt Red. a new Cyberpunk would be even better with all the npcs

LMAO the level of animation and uncanny valley is on PS2 level. Nice one

this feels soulless. what makes side objectives in games so endearing and memorable is the writing and performances from actual people. I get using something this to help quickly slap some stuff together, but all this isn't so much helping the devs, it's trying to automate creativity, which will do nothing but hurt the industry as a whole because you lose out on stuff like as creative as Alan Wake II, Cyberpunk, and Deus Ex, when you try to shove it through a machine and tell it to "make".

This demo has the Deus Ex vibe. I hope for an announcement of a sequel with new technology!

Do the AI NPCs know they're in a game?

Goodbye writers. Now all the stories will be AI generated and no handcrafted by people telling an amazing story. Modern life sucks.

LOL...this makes Starfield look revolutionary.

inworld saw mr bad idea's vid

Cool

I love how skyrim modders are ahead of nvidia by a year

Same virtual console they had in Westworld

Someday we will have better looking NPCs. that day is not today.

seems very stiff in my opinion. Though now dev's can make their own Elder scrolls npc's without any effort. After couple years this might be pretty good.

Cost? There are not enough people willing or able to pay tens of thousands of dollars to play a single experience.

i wonder if this can be integrated with 2D indie games

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Looks like some cool tech but this is so far from "immersive" they need to stop using that word.

0:41 I'd say the animation looks robotic, but even the actual robot character's animation looked kinda janky.

wow

More animation to the body language 😾

Ai characters: iterative Human VAs: irreplaceable

They should hire decent character designer, now it looks like .... How they want to sell the tech this way, scene looks good, characters beyond horrible.

You really need to improve the voice of that A.I. from the 00:10 second mark. It is totally ineligable.

So technically you could create an avatar for my mobile who speaks sounds like Kevin Hart? Eyyy, yoo mama is calling

0:22 Can i have this Non AI human ?

You guys at Nvidia couldn't work fast enough to bring the technology to fruition, so what you perceive as groundbreaking and controversial is actually stagnant; you had the potential to achieve so much more if you were truly committed. **Insert Owen Wilson's WOW meme right here please** BTW LOVE the gym bro you guys brought on.. literally staring at the teleprompter, was pathetic.

In five years we'll have no idea if we're playing online games with real human beings or not. Maybe less.

they gotta rework the way the voices sound otherwize i cant take it seriously