Matt Kim is the technical creative director at inworld.ai creating demos to show off their NPC platform, which was featured in my previous episode #1263 in the MeetWol demo by Liquid City and Niantic. I was really impressed with how my interactions with inworld.ai seemed to go beyond the limitations of ChatGPT and existing tech demos of large language models. Their website elaborates on how they're taking NPCs to the next level by saying how they add, "configurable safety, knowledge, memory, narrative controls, multimodality, and more. Craft characters with distinct personalities and contextual awareness that stay in-world. Seamlessly integrate into real-time applications, with optimization for scale and performance built-in." The low-latency responses is one of the more noticeable features, which makes a huge difference. I had a chance to catch up with Kim at AWE to dig into a bit more of some of the features that they've built for NPCs on their inworld.ai platform.

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