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Ryan Morrison

The rise of AI digital humans — Nvidia and Ubisoft are bringing NEO NPCs to life

Ubisoft AI NEO NPC.

Picture the scene. You’re walking around an open world game and finally find a merchant with the item you really need. Now, instead of a boring scripted interaction it can go into depth about its troubled childhood, or you could bargain with them to get a better deal.

This is one future of gaming being put forward by Nvidia and Ubisoft as they collaborate on a digital humans project dubbed NEO NPCs.

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