Niantic is using AI to make Peridot’s fake pets feel more real

/ The Pokémon Go developer is adding generative AI to Peridot in order to make its virtual pets feel and react more realistically.

By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.

Image: Niantic

Peridot, Niantic’s original augmented reality pet game, will start using generative AI designed to make the game’s cute technicolor aliens behave more like your cat.

Here’s how it works. Starting with today’s update, Niantic’s algorithm will analyze real-world objects captured in game with your phone’s camera and then convert those objects into words to be parsed by a large

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