NVIDIA Announces Project G-Assist: An AI Chatbot that's Situationally Aware of Your Game

[btarunr]

Imagine you're playing a game, you're stuck somewhere, don't know how to craft something, can't manage your inventory, or need to get out of some tricky puzzle. You normally pause and minimize your game, pull up a web-browser, and sift through dozens of search results to find the right Wiki or community thread that solves your problem. Wouldn't it be great, if you could pull up an in-game chat window and interact with an AI chat assistant (not unlike ChatGPT), except, the assistant is situationally aware of your entire game-state? That is NVIDIA Project G-Assist.

NVIDIA is training an AI on the vast ocean of information from the Internet on the countless games there are. You will soon be able to pull up an AI chat assistant, and will be able to either give it a text or natural voice input on how you want it to help you in the situation of the game you're in, and it will be able to guide you. G-Assist will not play the game for you, just give you precise and concise answers based on your game state (something no Google search or game wiki can). Besides assisting your gameplay, G-Assist will also help you with performance optimization and system tuning, the way the NVIDIA App and GeForce Experience already do.



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[natr0n]

I love gamefaqs doing research on games and devs and such. I am my own AI.

 

[theouto]

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What is the use of this, genuinely, what is useful about this. We know google is awful right now, but at least you know you will get the right answer from a dedicated fan community, instead of a hallucinating chatbot. Imagine you're doing a cod zombies easter egg and a hallucination costs you 30 minutes, when you could've pulled up a guide from mrroflwafles in the same amount of time, and gotten concrete information that you know is reliable. What's the point?
"help you with performance optimization and system tuning", absolutely nothing new, not a feature.

I am confused as to who this is meant to be for, who this is meant to help.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

This sounds like the penultimate in laziness. AI assisted recreation. Just sign me up for my feeding tube already.

 

[wolf]

A lot of gamers could benefit from G-Assist, but it has nothing to do with their in game performance.

 

[evernessince]

Imagine you're playing a game, you're stuck somewhere, don't know how to craft something, can't manage your inventory, or need to get out of some tricky puzzle. You normally pause and minimize your game, pull up a web-browser, and sift through dozens of search results to find the right Wiki or community thread that solves your problem. Wouldn't it be great, if you could pull up an in-game chat window and interact with an AI chat assistant (not unlike ChatGPT), except, the assistant is situationally aware of your entire game-state? That is NVIDIA Project G-Assist.

I'd say it's only great in the scenario where a puzzle or challenge is poorly designed, not intuitive, or if a bit of knowledge is extremely esoteric (looking at you Japanese games). Otherwise you are just avoiding having to improve your own critical thinking skills. I have never understood people who play through games by looking through guides all the time. The reason you need guides is because you never bother to take the time to solve the problem yourself.

G-Assist will not play the game for you, just give you precise and concise answers based on your game state (something no Google search or game wiki can). Besides assisting your gameplay, G-Assist will also help you with performance optimization and system tuning, the way the NVIDIA App and GeForce Experience already do.

Would be nice if it did have control, at least then it could automate boring tasks like inventory management and resource gathering.

It doesn't seem too exciting given that Microsoft and others also have AI + AI vision coming out as well but those that will apply across the entire OS. The same privacy concerns apply with both but other solutions are a lot more versatile.

 

[neatfeatguy]

Still not AI. Just a glorified search engine compiled with specific information (gaming, in this case). I'd rather go back to the Nintendo Hotline days for getting answers over having to rely on this.

Also, I don't need your crappy software to "tune" my system, Nvidia. I only install drivers for your GPU, nothing else. No thank you.

 

[droopyRO]

There where things like Dirty Little Helper back in the days when i began gaming on PC. But those were for games with story, puzzles and quests, not brainless online games that are so popular today.
This "project" sounds like something some devs would propose to not get fired since they are useless.

This sounds like the penultimate in laziness

With this level of hand holding, they would be best watching someone stream the game instead of playing the game themselves.

 

[Sabotaged_Enigma]

Better not.
My game is mine. Don't let AI mess it up. Get out of here.

 

[Dragokar]

It is a way to make it even easier to autoplay a game nowadays. If It's too hard, just cry to ur AI and get ur ass handed irl.

 

[Dirt Chip]

Dlss 5: play the game for you using your individual past style.
8K
240fps
HDR
Full path tracing
Ultra max out settings
And you garenteed to win >90%

All is left for you is to sit and see your GPU play your game to perfection

 

[Paganstomp]

Great. Now I'll have a backseat driver telling my how to play Galaga! Meh... no thanks.

 

[Vya Domus]

Waiting for an AI that can just play the game by itself, no point wasting our time with all this.

Jokes aside eventually we'll have cheats that will do just that, if there is no such thing already, though it would need to be trained on a per game basis. And it's pretty much going to be the end of things like online shooters because there will literally be no way to detect it, all it would need is a screen capture of the game.

Enjoy your games while you can.

 

[Crazybabe]

What da fawk!

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Maybe if they make it retro?

 

[Vayra86]

"Depth has become a hallmark of gaming"

What the fuck are they smoking, we're just past several decades of oversimplified games. They've lost the plot. Unless of course the new generation of gamers truly thinks they have it hard.

My god, the race to the bottom, enabled by AI, here we are. Something tells me Darwin has a fix for this.

Waiting for an AI that can just play the game by itself, no point wasting our time with all this.

Jokes aside eventually we'll have cheats that will do just that, if there is no such thing already, though it would need to be trained on a per game basis. And it's pretty much going to be the end of things like online shooters because there will literally be no way to detect it, all it would need is a screen capture of the game.

Enjoy your games while you can.

Cheats... ah yeah. I remember that. Cheats are also 'destroying games' in the minds of so many people.

Are you seriously saying this is the end of gaming? I think this is the way bubbles form and eventually burst. Why would anyone want this? You're already two clicks and a search away from finding the guide you need. There is nothing new here, except being constantly nagged by some AI, taking you out your immersion. Its not even fun playing games by guide. You do that once, twice, and then you figure out its boring as shit.

Dlss 5: play the game for you using your individual past style.
8K
240fps
HDR
Full path tracing
Ultra max out settings
And you garenteed to win >90%

All is left for you is to sit and see your GPU play your game to perfection

Yeah exactly, I'm not seeing the business case here to be fair This isn't fun, which I last recalled was the reason for entertainment.

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What is the use of this, genuinely, what is useful about this. We know google is awful right now, but at least you know you will get the right answer from a dedicated fan community, instead of a hallucinating chatbot. Imagine you're doing a cod zombies easter egg and a hallucination costs you 30 minutes, when you could've pulled up a guide from mrroflwafles in the same amount of time, and gotten concrete information that you know is reliable. What's the point?
"help you with performance optimization and system tuning", absolutely nothing new, not a feature.

I am confused as to who this is meant to be for, who this is meant to help.

Parting fools with money, duh. It's been Nvidia's mojo since Turing.

 

[thesmokingman]

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Fail.


Thats what this is.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Here's a thought, so if this is scouring all those gamers sites for solutions, isn't this violating the terms of use of those websites by stealing their work and publications? Think of the lost revenue because now you no longer need to visit their site--no hits, no ad views, but the valuable content essentially republished "for free" through the in-game assistant. Eventually this could lead to the destruction of the very content it needs. I guess that's one of the parts of AI the corporations don't want to talk about--when it devalues individualism and the need/value for real life people doing real life stuff. I mean, if it just links you to the source page, that's one thing, but it's really not all that much of a time saver versus just going to the very walkthrough site that it's pilfering from. Is it really that hard to figure out where you are in any game and what task you are trying to complete? That's been easy stuff for a long time now.

 

[JWNoctis]

They are going about this all wrong, seeing, for instance, the popularity of companion mods in Bethesda open-world titles, Oblivion/FNV/Skyrim/FO4/etc. Fan attempts at an LLM version of those are so far less-than-ideal, if I recall. Gone are the ages of paying extra for a paperback walkthrough that would have been accurate.

Though I do suppose those are rather a lot less tractable, requiring following an overarching storybook with significant context, as well as long-range consistency that current AI - those that run local or available to public for reasonable cost, at least - have difficulty doing. Hallucinations there would actually be somewhat realistic, or at least amusing, instead of sending you down a rabbit hole that does not exist.

On the other end, considering how many enjoyed gaming streams, or even paid others to play their game for them, there might as well be an use case for AI that plays your game for you. Call it cookie-clicker mode, maybe.

Here's a thought, so if this is scouring all those gamers sites for solutions, isn't this violating the terms of use of those websites by stealing their work and publications? Think of the lost revenue because now you no longer need to visit their site--no hits, no ad views, but the valuable content essentially republished "for free" through the in-game assistant. Eventually this could lead to the destruction of the very content it needs. I guess that's one of the parts of AI the corporations don't want to talk about--when it devalues individualism and the need/value for real life people doing real life stuff. I mean, if it just links you to the source page, that's one thing, but it's really not all that much of a time saver versus just going to the very walkthrough site that it's pilfering from.

That's precisely the same problem facing every single advanced AI trained with massive, Internet-scraped dataset out there at the moment. A lot of artists and authors are not amused one bit.

 

[lexluthermiester]

This garbage takes spying on peoples activities to a whole new level. Absolutely unacceptable.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

They are going about this all wrong, seeing, for instance, the popularity of companion mods in Bethesda open-world titles, Oblivion/FNV/Skyrim/FO4/etc. Fan attempts at an LLM version of those are so far less-than-ideal, if I recall. Gone are the ages of paying extra for a paperback walkthrough that would have been accurate.

Though I do suppose those are rather a lot less tractable, requiring following an overarching storybook with significant context, as well as long-range consistency that current AI - those that run local or available to public for reasonable cost, at least - have difficulty doing. Hallucinations there would actually be somewhat realistic, or at least amusing, instead of sending you down a rabbit hole that does not exist.

On the other end, considering how many enjoyed gaming streams, or even paid others to play their game for them, there might as well be an use case for AI that plays your game for you. Call it cookie-clicker mode, maybe.


That's precisely the same problem facing every single advanced AI trained with massive, Internet-scraped dataset out there at the moment. A lot of artists and authors are not amused one bit.

I have heard about that, and some comedians are especially miffed, since stealing jokes is pretty much the greatest offense once can make in comedy. I've heard some have even sued AI companies over it. I'm curious if we'll get some class-action action going on before too long.

 

[JWNoctis]

I have heard about that, and some comedians are especially miffed, since stealing jokes is pretty much the greatest offense once can make in comedy. I've heard some have even sued AI companies over it. I'm curious if we'll get some class-action action going on before too long.

Same thing with stealing arts and plagiarizing novels, especially the former. I understand that fewer would buy, say, $5 to $100 commissions, when you could generate hundreds of okay-at-first-glance pictures with open-weight models on a graphic card you already have for the games, as long as your requirements do not demand much compositionality or originality. What's going on at professional level is likely worse, with fewer artists reduced to fixing up pictures generated by more powerful models and converting them into image assets, by what (little) I heard of it.

Lawsuits are already going on, though it would probably only end up affecting the smaller players (e.g. Stability) who already cannot compete with the likes of OpenAI, but put the model weights in the hands of the masses. Interesting times.

 

[Bwaze]

On the other end, considering how many enjoyed gaming streams, or even paid others to play their game for them, there might as well be an use case for AI that plays your game for you. Call it cookie-clicker mode, maybe.

"I don't mind doing the laundry and dishes, AI is better at gaming than me anyway."

 

[SN2716057]

No, just no.