Nvidia’s New AI Chatbot Helps You Play Games and Boosts Your PC

Nvidia’s first hint at G-Assist was an April Fools’ joke about an AI assistant that could help you play a game while you ran to the door to get your pizza. Since then, seven years have passed, and G-Assist is back as a real demo of a powerful GeForce AI assistant that Nvidia may one day make real for game developers and RTX GPU owners.

Right now, Project G-Assist is just a tech demo, but it gives you a quick look at how an AI assistant could one day help you play PC games and even set them up so that they work best for you based on what you say in chat. Voice questions like ” What is the upcoming quest in the game, and where can I locate the necessary items to complete it?” are answered by G-Assist in a demo. within ARK: Survival Ascends. To help you through a game, the assistant can even understand what’s happening on the screen while you play. It can do this by checking your skill points and adapting itself accordingly. Microsoft showed a similar demo last month of how it thought its Copilot AI assistant could help Minecraft players get through the game.

Potential Applications of G-Assist and Future Prospects

The AI assistant from Nvidia can also tweak and improve PC settings. For example, it can show charts of PC latency and frames per second over the last 60 seconds. It can check your system and see that you’re playing at 60Hz even though your monitor can handle 240Hz. Additionally, you can ask the assistant for suggestions on how to improve game performance, reach a 60fps goal, or even overclock your GPU.

Like everyone else, I like a good demo. But until G-Assist is an app I can download and play with, I’m not sure if I should believe the AI hype, since generative AI often gets things wrong. Both Microsoft and Nvidia are showing off AI assistants that could eventually help people play games. This makes me think that this will soon go from being a demo to being real.