NVIDIA Release Project G-Assist For GeForce RTX AI PCs
NVIDIA App users who like to game can now get their hands on Project G-Assist, a free AI assistant tailored for GeForce RTX AI PCs. It features an SLM (Small Language Model) that can interpret requests and deliver appropriate help, such as monitor a game’s framerate and offer suggestions as to how to improve it.
As PCs become more powerful, especially those that can run modern games, it can get a bit complicated to optimize game settings and computer performance. NVIDIA created G-Assist to help with this.
“G-Assist helps users control a broad range of PC settings, from optimizing game and system settings, charting frame rates and other key performance statistics, to controlling select peripherals settings such as lighting — all via basic voice or text commands,” NVIDIA said in an official news post.
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AI That’s No Joke
Gamers or tech enthusiasts who have been following NVIDIA for a while may recall that the company released a video on April 1, 2017, showcasing G-Assist. Although it involved AI helping gamers, these features included things such as GhostPlay that would take over and play a game for you, and BossBoost, which would help players figure out the best way to defeat a boss.
Despite this being presented as available in a stylish USB, it turned out to be an April Fool’s joke. However, that’s not to say that some ideas haven’t carried over to the real thing in some way.
It can’t play games on a person’s behalf, but it can change things like RGB lighting in peripherals, and set a device’s fans to quiet mode. It can also tailor a game’s settings, from enabling RTX tweaks like ray-tracing to latency, all via either text or voice command.
An Experiment For Everyone
NVIDIA does make it clear that G-Assist is still considered experimental, meaning that the SLM behind it is still learning. Even so, it’s already capable of quite a few things with NVIDIA making it open source so anyone can have a go at tweaking it further.
“G-Assist was built for community-driven expansion. To get started, NVIDIA has published a GitHub repository with samples and instructions for creating plugins that add new functionality.”
At the moment, available G-Assist plugins include Spotify implementation, and a link with Google Gemini AI, for more complex questions and instructions.
