Nvidia has spent the last two years showing off its digital “ACE” characters that can interact with you in games using generative AI. But at CES 2025, the company is taking ACE characters a step further and showing how they can be “autonomous game characters” — including, sometime this year, one to help you get a chicken dinner. Teammate also included. pubg,
Nvidia says that ACE characters can use AI to “understand, plan, and act like human players.” According to a blog post“Powered by generative AI, ACE will enable vibrant, dynamic game worlds with companions that understand and support the player's goals, and enemies that dynamically adapt to the player's tactics.” The characters are driven by “small language models (SLMs)” that are “capable of planning at the human-like frequencies required to make realistic decisions” as well as “multi-modal SLMs for vision and audio that enable AI characters to make sound decisions.” signals and understand their environment.
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Essentially, it feels like an AI teammate that you can talk to in natural language that is supposed to be as capable as a human. And a video Shows that the ally is actually helping a player find specific loot, bringing a vehicle, and attempting to surround opposing players. But the video is highly edited and not live, so I doubt Ellie will do as good a job as she shows here.
AI characters created with ACE are coming to other games as well. Naraka: Bladepoint Mobile PC Edition Will get “a local inference AI teammate feature” in March 2025 Naraka: Bladepoint According to Nvidia's blog post, the feature will be coming to PC “later in 2025.” “AI teammates powered by NVIDIA ACE can join your party, fight alongside you, find specific items you need, swap gear, give tips on skills to unlock , and make plays that will help you win.”
Crafton's upcoming life simulation game called inZOI Will also order CPC “Smart Zoey.” And Nvidia says that ACE characters can also be bosses, and will be used for boss encounters we made the next miR5,