Earlier this year, La Forge launched Ghostwriter, a text-generating AI tool designed to help writers create a greater variety of original dialogue for NPCs, and in 2022, it tested a new technology that helps to generate more realistic and natural gestures in NPCs that matches the tone and mood of their speech.
“You can tell there is something off about what you’re seeing or hearing.”Įnter generative AI. “When we think about those NPCs, they look a bit weird,” says Alexis Rolland, development director of La Forge China, the Chinese branch of video games publisher Ubisoft’s research and development unit. An architect asked AI to design skyscrapers of the future.