It looks as if Tencent and Ubisoft are the latest companies to go all-in on AI, as both companies recently announced they would be adopting the AI generation tools created by Nvidia and were mentioned as key adopters in the recent Nvidia CES presentation. The tools, specifically Nvidia ACE (Avatar Cloud Engine), are supposed to help these companies accelerate the creation of complex NPCs. But it’s already raising a few eyebrows at a time when this sort of thing is still highly controversial.
Certainly, it's a bit of an odd move from Ubisoft, especially when one of their more recent games, Watchdogs: Legion, was criticised for the similarities between the recruitable NPCs that the players made use of (the game's titular 'legion' and main selling point was drawing on a huge background cast to play as, rather than one central character). However, they have already said they’d be going full force on the AI front with the use of a tool called Ghostwriter to help their narrative staff. ... [MORE]
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