Rizwan Virk

It wasn't that great according to most Matrix fans.

It was sort of deep if you think about it, but it just didn't have the same tenor.

Of the earlier films, I think.

But when that came out, the Unreal Engine, which is one of the big gaming engines that's used for building very realistic landscapes today, they came out with a demo called The Matrix Awakens.

And it was basically kind of a mini game, if you will.

And it was a city, and they had Neo that looked like Keanu Reeves, and they had his voice in there, and they had Trinity with Carrie Ann Moss.

And the city that you moved around looked real.

It was kind of like a mixture of San Francisco where they shot part of the film and Berlin.

But it was all virtual.

And so the landscapes were so good that you couldn't tell the difference.

Now, that city was filled with NPCs.

Initially, they were dumb NPCs.

But then what one guy did, there's a video of this online, he hooked up an LLM engine into the NPCs and he made them smart NPCs.

And then he had his character walk around in this virtual city and say to them,

hey, you're in a video game.

Hey, you're an NPC.

And they reacted the way that people might react.

Some of them were like, I don't have time for this.

I got a job to get to.

Others were like, really?