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NVIDIA & Convai Partner To Show AI NPCs During CES 2024

NVIDIA and Convai have come together to show off a new form of AI content with NPC conversations, which you can see at CES 2024.

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  • NVIDIA partners with Convai for real-time AI NPC conversations at CES 2024.
  • The tech works with Unreal Engine and Unity, revolutionizing game AI interactions.
  • Convai's new features enhance NPC awareness and environmental interactions.
  • NVIDIA's ACE, Audio2Face, and Riva improve NPC realism and response times.

During NVIDIA's special address stream this morning for CES 2024, the company revealed they're working with Convai to create a new platform for developers to make new NPC conversations. The program basically will allow companies to program AI conversations between NPC characters in a game so that whenever you walk into a room and see NPCs talking, the AI creates on-the-spot conversations designed to sound natural and original every time.  The company boasted that the new tech integrates seamlessly with Unreal Engine and Unity, as they are evolving the way AI-driven characters behave and react.

While the program does sound interesting from a technical standpoint, it also could very easily be used by companies to replace writers and voice talent, as there's no script to work off of or chance for any actors to improv dialogue for a game, as the character's voices and conversations will all be artificially created. If you wish to check it out, the company will be in Las Vegas this week from January 9-12, as we have more info on it below.

NIVDIA & Convai Partner To Show AI NPCs During CES 2024
Credit: NVIDIA

Convai & NVIDIA Partner For Generative AI

Convai is releasing its most anticipated features, with major advances in NPC spatial awareness, character actions, and NPC-to-NPC interactions. NPCs powered with Convai can now perceive and interact with their environment and other characters, making them more than just scripted entities. These characters navigate complex instructions, display emotional awareness, and engage in organic interactions, transforming the narrative and interactivity of games. As part of the collaboration between Convai and NVIDIA, Convai integrated NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) modules NVIDIA Audio2Face and Riva to improve the realism, believability and latency of character responses.

NVIDIA ACE (Avatar Cloud Engine) is a suite of technologies that helps developers bring digital avatars to life using generative AI. Audio2Face enables industry-leading lip sync and facial animations, Riva enables high quality and low latency speech-to-text. With these new releases from Convai, users can now ask NPCs about their surroundings, with real time actions. For example, characters can perform complex actions such as fetching items, following or leading characters to various places, and even execute complex tasks all dynamically requested and generated during gameplay. This opens up endless possibilities for developers and gamers to create the next generation of games. NPCs interact with each other even when the player is idle, producing countless options for how these characters perceive and engage with their surroundings.

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