Update 06/06/24 at 1:43 p.m.
ET: This post was updated to include additional information from Nvidia.
Project Game Assist has the possibility to democratize the laborious task of optimizing your in-game graphics.
Instead of diving through graphics options to optimize your game, Nvidia’s AI could do it for you.Gif: Nvidia
The name for the new AI program stems from anApril Fools jokeNvidia made seven years ago.
It centered around a fake G-Assist dongle that would actually play your games for you.
Gizmodo first saw hints of the companys plans for a chatbot this year at CES.
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The AI can also change your prefs for you without the player needing to dig through menus.
Its not perfect, the company told Gizmodo the options changes still might require you to restart the game.
On the other end, G-Assist will also offer you in-game advice.
For example, you could ask the AI for the best early-game weapon to craft in Ark: Survival.
The AI will also have the ability to read whats happening on your screen.
The system then uses frame capture like the existing Nvidia ShadowPlay to let the AI analyze frames for content.
The problem has more to do with the routine question of where AI companies get their training data from.
Where exactly do you think Nvidia is going to get all its game advice from?
Game tip blogs regularly write about weapon tier lists and guides for certain parts of games.
These sites regularly depend on search traffic from stuck gamers.
Nvidias new in-game chatbot could easily take away by offering gamers an easy way to get their answer immediately.
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