When Jake Klinkert was growing up, his father suggested that since he loved video games, he should make them. Klinkert took those words to heart and went on to earn a Master of Interactive Technology in Digital Game Development from SMU Guildhall. Now a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at SMU’s Lyle School of Engineering, he is testing large language models (like ChatGPT) to create non-playable characters (NPCs) that act and respond more like real people.
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