Nvidia To Deploy AI Teammates in Video Games this Year

Nvidia has unveiled plans to introduce AI-powered autonomous characters in video games this year, starting with a virtual teammate in the battle royale game PUBG, the chip maker said at CES 2025 in Las Vegas.

The technology, called ACE, enables in-game characters to communicate, make decisions and interact with players using small language models. The AI companions will also feature in Naraka: Bladepoint Mobile PC Version in March 2025 and other upcoming titles including inZOI and MIR5, Nvidia said.

Wow

[stealth_finger]

I didn't think it was possible to anyone to find the actual last thing on the list of things people might want but there it is. Honestly impressive if I'm honest.

Re:Wow

[drinkypoo]

This is high on the list of things that people want out of AI, more intelligent-seeming NPCs. Whether they're teammates or mobs or whatever, anything that makes them act more like humans will be welcome. There are already games with teammate bots, this is just making them better.

Imagine companions and enemies which do things that actually make sense at least some of the time. Imagine having AI NPCs trained on the game world and their situation that make up new phrases instead of continually saying the same stupid shit to you.

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[drinkypoo]

To my mind the solution is to have humans-only matches for people who care, and mixed matches for people who just want to play. Let the players decide.

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[stealth_finger]

More intelligence NPCs yes. Bots using "AI" to pretend to be real people, no.

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[leonbev]

This could actually be useful in games like Palworld, where you might need a build a raid party to take down some boss characters.

I don't want to give random people on the Internet access to my private world, because they'll probably steal stuff out of my bases. And my actual real live friends have no interest in this game, which kinda kills that option.

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[stealth_finger]

So you want bots to pretend to be your friends instead?

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[Smidge204]

I'm sure live service games will LOVE this. Each bot can be counted as a 'real' player since from their perspective it basically would be, and that bloats their concurrent player numbers.

That's a false hope of course, since players will realize they're outnumbered by bots 100:1 and stop playing.

What's the live service game equivalent term for Dead Internet Theory?
=Smidge=

Online games!

[Prof.Phreak]

Now you get to go online to play a single player game!!!

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[Iamthecheese]

Human companions have many drawbacks, enough for me to not want them much. They can betray you, they lie, they have their own lives and aren't available when you want to play, they have their own styles and may not want to cooperate. Human companions almost always care about something or someone else more than you. Sure them's the breaks, but if I have an alternative, I'll take it. Judge me not.

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[UnknownSoldier]

Scam Turismo 7 already does this. /s

Seen this before

[OopsIDied]

At first I was kind of disappointed, but then I remembered Counterstrike has had officially sanctioned bots in servers for a long time especially in servers with low population. Hopefully these new bots will pose more of a challenge

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[Mr. Dollar Ton]

Username checks out.

I used to be an AI

[KlomDark]

Until I took an arrow to the knee

Teammates!

[Iamthecheese]

I can't wait for an AI companion that can do more than spout rote sentences, change between heavy or light armor and clothes, and switch between ranged and melee in a single person RPG. It's going to be awesome to type or say, "You go snipe from behind that rock." Or "Stop trying to tank, you don't have the HP. Hit and back off" As for the waifu possibilities, well. [imgix.net]

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[dohzer]

I prefer the heavily racist taunts over the homophobic ones (but each to their own). Will Nvidia be catering to both halves of the gaming market?

You are the training product

[rapjr]

So AI posts on "your" social media, and video games are going to be used to get humans to train the next level of AI it would seem. This appears to be Nvidia's, Meta's, and others vision also. The corporations have run out of internet data to train AI's so they are turning to the ultimate source of training data, namely people. It is all to collect training data. You are the wheat in the field and they want to harvest you.

AI Chatbots

[akw0088]

My AI chatbot is calling for a ceasefire and negotiations again in battlefield 6

Philosophical question

[devslash0]

If you swear at and abuse your AI teammates, would you still risk getting banned for a breach of the code of conduct despite bots being soulless entities?

Re: Philosophical question

[devslash0]

Same. Good times.