{"id":10163,"date":"2023-05-25T13:38:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T11:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/25\/no-more-i-took-an-arrow-to-the-knee-could-ai-write-super-intelligent-video-game-characters\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T13:38:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T11:38:14","slug":"no-more-i-took-an-arrow-to-the-knee-could-ai-write-super-intelligent-video-game-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/25\/no-more-i-took-an-arrow-to-the-knee-could-ai-write-super-intelligent-video-game-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"No more \u2018I took an arrow to the knee\u2019: could AI write super-intelligent video game characters?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new experimental game demo full of sophisticated AI characters has some game writers worried about their jobs. Is AI really going to improve games, or the games industry?<\/p>\n

Corny dialogue has been part of video games almost since they have existed. From 1989\u2019s Zero Wing spawning the decades old \u201cAll your base are belong to us\u201d internet meme, to the clunky translations of the pre-remake Resident Evil games (\u201cthe master of unlocking\u201d), to Skyrim\u2019s infamous adventurer who once took an arrow to the knee<\/a> and never shuts up about it, non-playable character (NPC) dialogue has rarely been exactly Shakespearean, and the frequent repetition doesn\u2019t help. But could AI tools change that, enabling a world full of characters that respond believably when you talk to them?<\/p>\n

In collaboration with Google, a team of researchers from Stanford have built a game demo called Smallville<\/a> that integrates the AI writing tool ChatGPT. Instead of just walking into walls and setting themselves on fire like the classic Sims characters we all knew and loved, the game\u2019s 25 characters can instead comfortably discuss topics such as local politics and composing music, pulling from ChatGPT\u2019s enormous database.<\/p>\n

In about a year and a half, we could see this type of technology being used in smaller indie games, with wider adoption coming in about five years<\/p>\n

It always sounds like the dawn of a new age, but tends to end up being disruptive and demoralising<\/p>\n

Continue reading…<\/a>
\nA new experimental game demo full of sophisticated AI characters has some game writers worried about their jobs. Is AI really going to improve games, or the games industry?
\nCorny dialogue has been part of video games almost since they have existed. From 1989\u2019s Zero Wing spawning the decades old \u201cAll your base are belong to us\u201d internet meme, to the clunky translations of the pre-remake Resident Evil games (\u201cthe master of unlocking\u201d), to Skyrim\u2019s infamous adventurer who once took an arrow to the knee and never shuts up about it, non-playable character (NPC) dialogue has rarely been exactly Shakespearean, and the frequent repetition doesn\u2019t help. But could AI tools change that, enabling a world full of characters that respond believably when you talk to them?
\nIn collaboration with Google, a team of researchers from Stanford have built a game demo called Smallville that integrates the AI writing tool ChatGPT. Instead of just walking into walls and setting themselves on fire like the classic Sims characters we all knew and loved, the game\u2019s 25 characters can instead comfortably discuss topics such as local politics and composing music, pulling from ChatGPT\u2019s enormous database.
\nIn about a year and a half, we could see this type of technology being used in smaller indie games, with wider adoption coming in about five years
\nIt always sounds like the dawn of a new age, but tends to end up being disruptive and demoralising Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new experimental game demo full of sophisticated AI characters has some game writers worried about their jobs. Is AI really going to improve games, or the games industry? Corny dialogue has been part of video games almost since they have existed. From 1989\u2019s Zero Wing spawning the decades old \u201cAll your base are belong …<\/p>\n

No more \u2018I took an arrow to the knee\u2019: could AI write super-intelligent video game characters?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10163"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}