The goal that the global game industry envisions is that these NPCs will become digital humans programmed with their very own, distinct personas based on the hyped AI technology.
With the fuse of generative AI technology, such characters will function more like humans as the AI trained on machine learning deciphers the data to respond in the adequate manner of speech, tone, emotions, facial expressions and ultimately generate proper responses to the players' needs. They are limited in their tasks - notifying the players with certain missions or instructing them to acquire items - or low-level enemies in cookie-cutter missions with zero suspense, merely existing for the player to move on to the next stage of their games. Currently, in-game characters merely exist as non-player characters (NPCs). The day may soon arrive when a game world would become enmeshed with AI-powered characters, advancing the characters' cognition to a level where they might spontaneously interact with their human players. NCSoft unveiled its own digital human dubbed 'TJ Kim' at Game Developers Conference held at San Francisco in April, modeled after the company founder Kim Taek-jin.
