Nvidia's Project G-Assist is the first AI assistant I actually can't wait to have running on my gaming PC

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Right now it's just a Computex tech demo, but the gaming focused Project G-Assist AI might just be the most interesting AI assistant I've seen yet. And I've seen a lot, and we'll likely see a million more throughout the Taipei show this week and on through this 'year of the AI PC'.

And, by the way, you can now add 'RTX AI PC' to the list of new ways we're meant to be talking about our personal computers when they've got an Nvidia GPU inside them. Microsoft has ignored Nvidia when it's talking Copilot+, but it's not about to get left out of any 'AI PC' shizzle as the arguably the biggest hardware player in the entire field. 

I'm already rather fatigued by all this AI talk, but in a pre-show briefing it was the Project G-Assist demo that really caught my eye. If the name seems familiar it's because it was the title of an April Fool's 'joke' of Nvidia's back in 2017, but this version is a lot less ridiculous. This new technology demo highlights a use case where it acts as an AI layer over the top of any game you're playing, allowing you to ask questions and advice about the game's settings and your PC's performance.

This is all information Nvidia already has at its fingers, with its software overlay capable of presenting a ton of data on your rig's performance in real-time, as well as a host of per-PC recommendations on the optimal settings for pretty much any game you care to throw at GeForce Experience.

Except, with a potential G-Assist layer you would have instant access to all of that through a natural language interface. Old PC hands are always going to want to dig into the settings, tweak things themselves, and run their own benchmarks, etc. And that's grand, but with an AI assistant able to surface all of that detail for a new, more casual audience you're instantly opening up the intricacies of PC gaming to a wider player base.

The demo showed a user asking for a graph of the game's latency over the past minute and asking for advice on how to best set up the