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Fortnite developers can make AI characters now — just don’t try to date them

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Fortnite developers can make AI characters now — just don’t try to date them

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Following last year's AI-powered Darth Vader in Fortnite that swore in a re-creation of James Earl Jones' voice, Epic Games is now letting Fortnite creators experiment with a new "conversations" tool to create AI-powered characters that players can talk and interact with. "Instead of authoring dialogue trees for characters in your islands, conversations transforms an […]

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