"Niantic's AI Enhances Peridot's Virtual Pets for an Immersive Experience"

Niantic is using generative AI in its augmented reality pet game, Peridot, to make the game's pets, called Dots, behave more like real animals. The AI analyzes real-world objects captured in the game and converts them into words to be processed by a large language model. Each Dot has a personality profile, and the AI determines how a Dot with a specific personality would interact with the objects around it. Niantic hopes this use of AI will make the pets in Peridot more lifelike.