NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang has held a Q&A session with the press as part this week’s festivities for NVIDIA GTC 2024, and with it comes the suggestion that even more game developers might be out of a job in the immediate years ahead, having told one reporter that fully AI-generated games could surface as soon as five years’ time. The news comes a day after NVIDIA shared a handful of videos demonstrating a suite of new AI technologies for driving the next generation of game development, including those relating to digital humans and smart NPCs.
Somebody asked:
- “How far do you think we are in this world where every pixel is generated at real-time frame rates?”
- “And what is your vision for gaming and non-gaming experiences in that new paradigm?”
Huang responded:
- “I think with almost almost everything in technology, the S curve is not longer than a decade once it becomes true, once it becomes practical and better. And, of course, ChatGPT is not only practical; in most cases, it’s better. I think it’s less than ten years away.”
- “In ten year’s time you’re at the other end of that S curve. In five years from now, you’re probably right in the middle where everything is changing in real-time, and everybody’s going, ‘Oh, look at that, this is happening.’ And so you just got to decide, are we two years into it, into that ten years?”
- “…we’re probably already two years into it. And so I would say that within the next five to ten years, somewhere in between, it’s largely the case.”
NVIDIA’s digital human suite of technologies include:
- Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) for speech and animation
- NeMo for language
- RTX for ray-traced rendering
The technologies in action: