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Source 1 - New AI-video tool by maker of ChatGPT worries media creators

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Source 1 - New AI-video tool by maker of ChatGPT worries media creators

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Source 2 - You can now talk to video game NPCs, and frankly it's incredible

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Source 2 - You can now talk to video game NPCs, and frankly it's incredible

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Source 4 - OpenAI’s impressive new Sora videos show it has serious sci-fi potential

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Source 4 - OpenAI’s impressive new Sora videos show it has serious sci-fi potential

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Basile Simon, a former journalist and current Stanford University researcher, thinks there has been "a terrifying leap forward in the last year" when it comes to generative AI allowing realistic-looking fabrications to be rapidly produced.

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"Creative genius" will no longer be limited by production skills thanks to generative AI tools, one enthusiast contended

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Video game creators are equally likely to be impacted by the new invention, with reaction
among the sector divided between those open to embracing a new tool and those fearing it
might replace them.
French video game giant Ubisoft hailed the OpenAI announcement as a "quantum leap
forward" with the potential to let players and development teams express their imaginations.

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Source 5 - I literally spoke with Nvidia’s AI-powered video game NPCs

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Source 5 - I literally spoke with Nvidia’s AI-powered video game NPCs

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Source 6 - ‘Video games are in for quite a trip’: How generative AI could radically reshape gaming

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Source 6 - ‘Video games are in for quite a trip’: How generative AI could radically reshape gaming

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“It takes speech as input and generates body gesture as output, so we can imagine those
NPCs expressing themselves with non-scripted dialogues, having almost natural body
animation, synthesized from speech,

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“This NPC, using deep learning, does not have a fixed pattern, so can have a greater variety
of movements,” says Zhou, adding that smarter NPCs will make games more entertaining
and challenging

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 Replica Studios recently introduced “AIpowered smart NPCs” for game engine giant Unreal Engine, which allows game developers
to use AI to read NPC dialogue, rather than hiring a human voice actor.

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However, one risk of usingAI-generated NPCs is that game designers could lose control of
the game narrative

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Last May, Nvidia and its partner Convai showed off a fairly unconvincing canned demo of
such a system — but this January, I got to try a fully interactive version for myself at CES
2024. I walked away convinced we’ll inevitably see something like this in future games

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: the characters I spoke to were effectively generative AI chatbots. They
didn’t feel like real people — we’ve got a ways to go before voices, facial expressions, and
body language catch up to what’s expected of a real-life interaction

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e it could be used to populate a whole world
with lesser characters or combined with good, canonical dialogue written by a real human
being, where generative AI just helps it go further.

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She also showed me how easy it was to inject new data. It took a single tap of a button to
modify Jin and Nova’s memory with an additional text file, and suddenly, they were able to
tell me about Nvidia’s new graphics cards. Another button press, and these characters could
speak in a new language

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Now look, this is clearly at an alpha stage. There's a ton that these characters do really badly. Facial animations in this tech demo are terrible. The voices are stilted and robotic to varying degrees

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But you're absolutely speaking to a character, and it's absolutely delightful how these things
stay faithful to their character no matter where you take the conversation

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These conversational models really know how to dance. It's excellent fun, you can have
surprisingly deep and rich conversations,

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 It immediately makes scripted dialogue options and
cutscenes look like frustrating relics from the past

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What's more, people have been coding these avatars into practical helpers – a preview of the way we'll soon be interacting with all our devices... These bots are frankly as helpful as you are good at making use of them.

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Perhaps the broader worry with Sora, though, is how this might eventually displace, rather than assist, content creators

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we’ll be seeing the cream of the crop of what Sora is capable of in these teasers, and there have been some buggy and weird efforts aired too.

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Of course, AI can write a script as well, and so it begs the question: how long will it be before a blue alien is starring in an AI-generated post-apocalyptic drama

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t’s worth underlining how fast things seem to be progressing with the capabilities of AI. Image creation powers were one thing – and extremely impressive in themselves – but this is entirely another

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AI has almost limitless potential but isn't quite where it can be and has a lot of room to grow still.

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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used in generative AI tools, like ChatGPT or Google’s unreleased Bard, which can spit out blocks of text. Related models can create drawings or audio that resembles human output.

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Companies developing this software say it will save hours of time and supercharge human creativity

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But there have been issues with large language models, which can simply make information up, a phenomenon
known as “hallucinating.” Both Google and Microsoft’s recent AI launches showed their software making
factual errors.