Hiroshi's Ramen Shop doesn't exist, but this digital noodle bar in a Cyberpunk 2077-esque future dystopia revealed more about what's coming for PC gamers in the years ahead than any trailer or technical white paper ever could, and I'm back from the future to tell y'all that we aren't ready for this.
Shown off as a working model at Nvidia's press showcase at CES 2024, Nvidia ACE was originally announced at Computex last year as an example of what Nvidia's AI was capable of. The idea is that the NPCs in a game – in this case the cook and a security agent in a Ramen Shop plucked right out of any number of cyberpunk-inspired games from Deus Ex to Ghostrunner 2 – don't have traditional scripted dialogue trees.
