At Computex 2024, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, delivered a keynote that highlighted the transformative impact of AI across various industries and unveiled several new technologies aimed at furthering this revolution. Huang emphasized the role of AI in driving a new industrial revolution, stating that generative AI is reshaping industries and opening new opportunities for innovation and growth.
He pointed out that AI is now a crucial component in the industrial digitization shift, valued at $50 trillion. Huang highlighted several groundbreaking advancements and shared his vision for how AI will reshape the gaming landscape in the coming years.
(ACE) for Games
One of the most significant announcements was the introduction of the NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) for Games. This AI service allows developers to create custom AI models for non-playable characters (NPCs), endowing them with advanced conversational abilities and dynamic personalities. By leveraging AI technologies such as NVIDIA Riva for speech recognition and transcription, and NVIDIA NeMo for generating natural language responses, ACE aims to make game interactions more immersive and lifelike. Additionally, NVIDIA Omniverse Audio2Face will animate these interactions, providing a more seamless and engaging player experience.
AI to generate entire games
Huang sent a shiver down the collective spine of game developers by predicting the potential for AI to generate entire games autonomously within the next decade. He suggested that in less than ten years, AI could be capable of creating games in real-time, dynamically generating every pixel and element of the game environment. This would mark a significant departure from the current method of rendering and rasterization, introducing a new paradigm in game development. Huang’s optimistic timeline for this technology underscores NVIDIA’s commitment to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.
From enhancing NPC interactions with ACE to predicting the rise of fully AI-generated games, NVIDIA is poised to transform how games are developed and experienced. The integration of AI across NVIDIA’s hardware and cloud computing solutions further underscores the company’s vision of a future where AI is central to gaming innovation.
