It is increasingly common in online communities to jokingly or insultingly refer to others as automated characters, like those in video games. This is a flawed and overly simplistic representation of ...

Data journalist Nate Silver criticized top aides to Vice President Kamala Harris as “non-player characters with no will of their own” after they appeared to shirk blame for the Democrat’s disastrous ...

Long before generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini started dominating the tech world, gamers had been interacting with AI companions and opponents for decades. Non-player characters ...

inZOI–a soon-to-be-released rival to The Sims–will offer “smart” AI characters that can be prompted just like ChatGPT. Nvidia has long promised to bring smarter non-player characters (NPCs) to video ...