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Again, the character would still be written and defined by a human writer, pouring their soul into it just like they would a “dumb” NPC. I don’t see how that “soul” is lost by giving that human-written character the capability to naturally respond to language.

These NPCs would have to be written by people too. Otherwise you’d just get ChatGPT. Depending on complexity, it might even require more writing work.

Where I live, it used to be Twingos instead of Beetles for some reason.

The way it works right now is usually over the cloud. I’ve already tried out a bit of “Convai” as a developer, which is a platform where you can create LLM NPCs and put them in Unreal Engine. It’s pretty neat, not perfect, but you can definitely give characters thousands of lines of backstory if you want and they will act in character. They will also remember any conversations a player had with them previously and can refer to them in later convos. Can still be fairly obvious that you’re talking to an LLM though, if you know what to ask and what to look for. Due to its cloud-based nature, there is also some delay between the player input and the response. But it has a lot of potential for dialog systems where you can do way more than just choose between 4 predefined sentences. Especially once running these things locally won’t be a performance-issue.

Normal NPCs don’t have souls either TBF.

It’s not like they can track what phone model and operating system you have just by you being in the area. I think it could still have to do with the military base though. The phone could have picked up some sort of military frequencies which it couldn’t process and so it crashed.

Honestly one of the AI applications I see real potential in. They can train the NPCs with an extensive backstory and the interactions with them could be way more dynamic than what we currently get for NPCs. Something like a more advanced version of “Starship Titanic”, if anyone remembers that.

I’ve never understood the logic of “US bad, therefore that other country run by a homicidal dictator is good”. Putin’s ideology is way closer to actual fascism than Western capitalism is.

Mate, this community is more left-wing than probably 90% of online communities. If that’s already “fascist” to you, I can’t even imagine where you’d put a place like reddit. If you apply that word to everyone you disagree with, it loses all meaning.

Maybe, but IMO a normal communist wouldn’t go around defending modern Russia and China, authoritarian states that honestly couldn’t be further from a communist ideal (despite China being nominally communist).

Just had a bit of a snoop on their profile and yeah… it’s just a tankie being mad that people don’t agree with them here. I imagine getting out of the Lemmygrad bubble must have been traumatic.

Haven’t seen it, care to provide examples?

Played Cyberpunk at launch, had no major issues with it and really liked the game.

I suppose a better way to phrase it is- why is an NPU necessary? What does it enable these machines to do that a Surface sans NPU can’t?

It can basically handle neural network/AI tasks more efficiently than a regular CPU/GPU can.

And yes, these are business-oriented. But my question remains the same - is built-in AI a feature that businesses, as consumers of this product, are asking for?

Yes, deserved or not, AI is currently on everyone’s mind in the business world. Working as a software dev, every client these days asks if we “do AI”, so we pretty much have to reluctantly learn and use it. And many of those clients are very protective of their data and don’t just want to put them on some web service, like OpenAI. So there’s certainly demand for locally running AI tasks.

Like the article states: it contains an NPU. It’s also not targeted at consumers.

They’ve also auctioned some of it off, including the well-known case where they were not exactly supposed to.

Basically, if PlaytronOS works as promised, then your handheld PC will no longer be restricted to just single store fronts or Windows foibles.

Does the writer here assume that SteamOS is limited to a single storefront? Because that couldn’t be further from the truth. As you can see on Playtron’s website, they use the same launchers that you can already use on SteamOS, like Heroic.

You could easily run your Game Pass catalog on your Steam Deck, for example.

That is highly doubtful. I’d be very impressed if Playtron got Gamepass to work on Linux but let’s be real here, they didn’t.

7700X is way above the recommended specs and my CPU though. It’s not surprising that it runs fine on a great system, but many of us have more mid-tier systems.

Unfortunately performance especially on PC looks rough. I am/was pretty excited for the game, but looks like my CPU (3700X) might just not cut it for a good gameplay experience, despite being above the recommended specs.

One of my favorite ways to waste time during my high-school days.