It is increasingly common in online communities to jokingly or insultingly refer to others as automated characters, like those in video games. This is a flawed and overly simplistic representation of ...

Tom Paton is programming his NPC models to be in survival mode. The visual effects producer, who’s known for creating AI-driven projects through his production company AiMation Studios, launched a new ...

LOS ANGELES — For decades, video games have relied on scripted, stilted interactions with non-player characters to help shepherd gamers in their journeys. But as artificial intelligence technology ...

Long before generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini started dominating the tech world, gamers had been interacting with AI companions and opponents for decades. Non-player characters ...

Ambersley, who recently hung out with Twitch superstar Kai Cenat for his ' Mafiathon 2 ' stream, gained viral attention in 2023 for his "non-player character" streams as the beloved Spider-Man ...

AI is transforming video games by replacing "robotic" NPCs with intelligent characters that react to a player's "main ...