Fortnite's AI-powered Darth Vader represents AI's potential, and also its risks.

It didn't take long after Epic Games unleashed famous Star Wars Sith lord Darth Vader into the game Fortnite -- complete with the AI-enabled voice of late actor James Earl Jones for conversations ...

But now the Epic game has added a twist: you can actually talk to Darth Vader, who will responded thanks to AI and the voice of the late James Earl Jones (with his family's permission).

If you’ve played Fortnite over the past few days, you may have recruited Darth Vader to your team. Pretty cool, huh? Even cooler is that you can actually talk to him, as the game experiments ...

On Friday, developer Epic Games announced in a blog post that Darth Vader is back in Fortnite as a recruitable boss character in the game's primary Battle Royale mode. He can be recruited to fight ...

James Earl Jones’ voice of Darth Vader is one of the most recognizable sounds in movie history — and now it’s at the center of a fight over the use of artificial intelligence. On Monday ...

Sounds reasonable. People have already gotten around at least one of these guardrails though. Twitch streamer Loserfruit says to Vader, "What freaking fucking food is that Darth Vader?" ...

Fortnite players can channel their inner dark side as James Earl Jones‘ Darth Vader returns to the game. Players will be able to recruit the Sith Lord and be able to talk to him, he will respond ...

even if the results sound rather flat. Epic Games used a combination of Google's Gemini and ElevenLabs' Flash v2.5 to generate Vader's responses. Fortnite’s Darth Vader, when he’s not swearing ...