"On the first day of this year's 2026 GDC Festival of Gaming, I saw a social media post describing a demo at Google's AI booth. The post showed a generic-looking pixel-based RPG, but the real meat of it was in the dialogue: All of the text spoken by the non-player characters in the demo was live-generated by AI."
"While I waited for my turn to try it out, a Google representative told me that Google's proprietary AI, Gemini, would generate the text based on my prompts. I saw the player ahead of me interact with an obsequious shopkeeper who "sold" them two items (the demo was only meant to show off Gemini's text-generation capabilities, so there were no items, no currency to buy them with, and no inventory menu in which to access them), while a timer on the screen counted up how long it took the AI to generate each response."
At the 2026 GDC Festival of Gaming, Google exhibited a demo featuring AI-generated dialogue for non-player characters using their proprietary Gemini AI. The demo allowed players to interact with NPCs whose responses were generated in real-time based on player prompts, with a timer displaying response generation time. The conference featured extensive AI content, including over 60 talks and events plus numerous AI company booths and advertisements. The reporter tested the system by attempting to engage NPCs in extended conversations, discovering limitations in the AI's ability to maintain unique character identities and generate varied responses.
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