Nvidia’s G-Assist is an AI chatbot that guides you through games and optimizes your PC

When Nvidia first announced G-Assist, it was a The April Fools Prank 2017 who joked about an AI assistant being able to help you play while you ran to the door to deliver the pizza. Now, seven years later, G-Assist is back as a real demonstration of a powerful GeForce AI assistant that Nvidia could eventually bring to life for game developers and RTX GPU owners.

Project G-Assist is just a technology demo at the moment, but it’s a brief look at how an AI assistant can guide you through PC games and even set the ideal settings for you based on your chat inputs. chat in the future.

In a demo, Nvidia shows G-Assist responding to voice queries asking “what is the next weapon in the game and where can I find the crafting materials for it?” inside ARK: Ascended Survival. The assistant can even understand what’s happening on the screen as you play, so it can adapt to how many skill points you have in a game and help guide you. Microsoft showed off a similar demo about its vision for how its Copilot AI assistant could guide Minecraft players during the game last month.

Nvidia’s own AI assistant can also optimize and adjust PC settings, including providing graphs of PC latency and frames per second over the last 60 seconds. It can check your system and notice that you are only gaming at 60 Hz when your monitor supports 240 Hz. You can also ask the assistant for recommendations to increase performance in a game, reach the 60fps performance target, or even overclock a game. your GPU.

I love a clever demo as much as the next person, but until G-Assist is an app I can download and play with, I’m hesitant to get into the AI ​​hype, given how generative AI regularly makes mistakes. The fact that Microsoft and Nvidia are demonstrating AI assistants that could eventually guide people through games makes me think this will progress from demonstration to reality soon.