Playful roboticism is having a moment on TikTok. As you've no doubt seen (or perhaps directly paid for) in recent months, NPC streaming has taken over the platform, thus facilitating the purported ...

Today Assassin's Creed maker Ubisoft unveiled what it’s calling 'Neo NPCs', a prototype for player-facing generative AI that essentially makes it so you can talk – literally speak with your voice – to ...

Radiant AI was introduced in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006) as a system enabling NPCs to make autonomous choices and follow daily routines, rather than just scripted patterns. Each NPC had ...

TikTok creators are embracing a peculiar new live genre in which they stream themselves acting like non-player video game characters. Viewers of such streams become the puppeteers of real-life NPCs, ...

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