Computex 2024: NVIDIA G-Assist, an AI chatbot that helps with gaming and PC optimization

Nvidia and Microsoft are working on AI assistants to help you play computer games.

When Nvidia first announced G-Assist, it was an April Fool’s prank in 2017, joking that an AI assistant could help you play a game while you ran to the door for a pizza delivery. Now, seven years later, G-Assist is back as a real-life demonstration of a powerful GeForce AI assistant that Nvidia could eventually bring to life for game developers and RTX GPU owners.

And now it’s back as a real-life demonstration of a powerful GeForce AI assistant that Nvidia could eventually bring to life for game developers and RTX GPU owners.

Now Project G-Assist — it’s only a technical demo, but it gives a glimpse of how an AI assistant could guide you in PC gaming and even customize optimal settings based on chat data in the future.

So far, Project G-Assist—s only a technical demo, but it gives a glimpse of how an AI assistant could guide you in PC gaming and even customize optimal settings based on chat data in the future.

In the demo, Nvidia shows how G-Assist responds to voice queries: «What weapon will be next in the early game and where can I find the materials to make it? » in ARK: Survival Ascended. The assistant can even understand what’s happening on the screen as you play the game, so it can adjust to the number of skill points in the game and help you get through it. Last month, Microsoft showed a similar demonstration of its vision for how its AI assistant Copilot could guide Minecraft players in-game.

Microsoft showed a similar demonstration of its vision for how its AI assistant Copilot could guide Minecraft players through the game.

Nvidia’s AI assistant can also optimize and tune PC settings, including providing graphs of latency and frames per second over the last 60 seconds. It can scan your system and notice if you’re only playing at 60Hz when your monitor supports 240Hz. You can also ask the assistant for recommendations on how to increase your game performance, reach your 60fps target, or even overclock your GPU.