It is increasingly common in online communities to jokingly or insultingly refer to others as automated characters, like those in video games. This is a flawed and overly simplistic representation of ...

Ambersley, who recently hung out with Twitch superstar Kai Cenat for his ' Mafiathon 2 ' stream, gained viral attention in 2023 for his "non-player character" streams as the beloved Spider-Man ...

X owner Elon Musk heaped scorn on the media as "NPCs" on Tuesday after a slew of headlines painted his much-hyped conversation with former President Trump in a negative light. NPC is short for ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For decades, video games have relied on scripted, stilted interactions with non-player characters to help shepherd gamers in their journeys. But as artificial intelligence ...

Long before generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini started dominating the tech world, gamers had been interacting with AI companions and opponents for decades. Non-player characters ...

NetEase’s massively multiplayer online role-playing game Justice Mobile announced Thursday that the DeepSeek-powered non-player character (NPC) Shen Qiusuo will debut in the game’s martial arts world ...