It was announced as an April Fool's joke in 2017, and seven years later, Nvidia G-Assist would become a future project that would compete with Copilot+. Because while the GeForce GTX G-Assist was supposed to play first-person shooter games on its own (GhostPlay) or kill bosses faster thanks to “BossBoost”, today there is an advisory AI assistant behind it.
In 2017, the GeForce GTX G-Assist was still a joke
Nvidia had indicated the announcement of the G-Assist project onThe future is never far away..“It was dug out of mothballs again.
G-Assist is a project in 2024
With the new G-Assist, Nvidia is working on an AI assistant that, in collaboration with the respective developer, should be able to provide assistance in games in the future. This is reminiscent of Microsoft's Copilot+ presentation, where a new GPT-4o-based Windows AI assistant helped a Minecraft player get started in the game.
In contrast to Copilot+, which seems like it will be able to help in every game because everyone should know the underlying Largue Language model in some form, Nvidia wants to work with developers on G-Assist and thus achieve better results due to the training data for the helpers that the developers have compiled. From their own content or content from the community surrounding the game. So G-Assist relies on small, specific language models.
Input is in the form of image, audio and text
Like Copilot+, G-Assist will also be able to recognize the current screen content and accept voice commands from the user. Depending on the implementation, background inference can be performed in the cloud or locally on the graphics card. For this purpose, G-Assist relies on the RTX AI Toolkit and the RTX AI Inference Manager SDK (AIM), which were also announced at Computex.
Nvidia is currently describing G-Assist as a project, and there is no release date yet.
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