NVIDIA has unveiled a technology called Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) that allows players to naturally speak to non-playable characters (NPCs) and receive appropriate responses. The company showed off the technology during Computex 2023’s artificial intelligence generative keynote, with a demo called Kairos in which a playable character talked to an NPC named Jin in a seedy-looking ramen shop. The demo (below 32:9, the biggest widescreen I’ve ever seen) shows the player talking to Jane. “Hi Jane, how are you,” the person asks. “Unfortunately, not very well,” Jin replied. “How is…

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