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Nvidia’s AI assistant can offer gaming strategies and analyse replays
unveiled as a tech demo during Computex 2024 in June.
In a newsroom post, the tech giant announced the release of an experimental version of G-Assist. The AI assistant is a personalised gaming assistant for GeForce RTX AI PCs and can run locally, so the data never leaves their device. It can answer queries about video games and can share information, such as gaming strategies. It can also analyse replays of multiplayer games and offer to the .
G-Assist is powered by a specially tuned small language model (SLM) that can interpret natural language commands as well as call a variety of Nvidia and third-party PC application programming interfaces (APIs) to execute specific actions on the 's behalf. It accepts text and audio inputs and can also process visual information via computer vision capability.
Coming to system-specific capabilities, the AI assistant can run real-time diagnostics and suggest recommendations to fix issues. It can also handle complex tasks such as improving power efficiency, optimising game settings, and overclocking the GPU.
Project G-Assist can also monitor and display performance metrics of the device, such as frames per second (FPS), latency, GPU usage, system temperature, and more. Additionally, it can also handle peripheral tasks such as running benchmarks, adjusting fan speeds, or changing lighting (on ed devices).
The AI assistant is built on a Meta Llama-based Instruct model with eight billion parameters. Nvidia said that despite the size, Project G-Assist is fully localised within the device and can be powered by a single RTX GPU. This also means that the chatbot comes without latency issues, data privacy risks, or any subscription fee.
It is currently available via the Nvidia app's Home tab in the Discovery section. It currently s only the English language. Once it has been installed and activated, s can access the shortcut Alt+G to summon the chatbot quickly.
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