AI Agents Take Digital Experiences to the Next Level in Gaming and Beyond, Featuring Chris Covert from Inworld AI - Ep. 243

Hello, and welcome to the NVIDIA AI podcast. I'm your host, Noah Kravitz. Digital humans and AI agents are poised to be big news this year. They're already making waves, in fact. At CES twenty twenty five in Las Vegas, Logitech g's Streamlabs unveiled its intelligent streaming assistant powered by technologies from in world AI and NVIDIA. The intelligent streaming assistant is an AI agent designed to provide real time commentary during downtime and amplify excitement during high stakes moments like boss fights or chases. The collaboration brings together Streamlabs' expertise in live streaming tools, NVIDIA ACE technology for digital humans, including AI vision models that can understand what's happening on screen, and in world's advanced generative AI capabilities for perception, cognition, and adaptive output. But what are digital humans? Where are they going to be used? And where are they gonna make an impact in the enterprise and in gaming and entertainment in particular? And how does a designer design in the age of digital humans, agentic AI, and beyond? Chris Covert, director of product experiences at inworld AI, whose press release, by the way, or or blog post, I paraphrased heartily from in that introduction, so credit to. Chris is here to dive into these points and more as we talk about some of the technology that I think is really poised to really make a big impact this year going forward and kinda shape this new area of digital experience for all of us in, you know, what we'll broadly call the AIH. But at any rate, Chris is here. So, Chris, thank you so much for joining the AI podcast, and welcome. Thank you for having me today. It's a pleasure to be here, not only as a longtime partner of NVIDIA, but also as a huge fan of your recent announcements in AI at CES this year as well. Genuinely amazing time to be talking about AI in this space. It really is. And so you were at the show? You were in Vegas? Couldn't make it personally. I'll be doing dice. I'll be doing GDC, but our team was there. We worked on the project. Alright. So let's get into it. Tell us a bit about inworld inworld AI for listeners who may not know. We can get deeper into, the assistant in particular a little later in the conversation, if that's cool, just so you can kinda set the stage for all of us about what it is that we're gonna be talking about. Yeah. So I you know, extremely biased. I have the best job in the world. At in world, we make the leading AI engine for video games, and I get to work with the most creative minds in the industry, most creative minds in the world of gaming and entertainment to answer the question, how can we make fun more accessible to the people that make our favorite experiences? And I'm not gonna count you. As we go in. …