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alright today I'm brute forcing a
positive topic it's a little bit
different I could easily go down the
road that this will destroy gaming
because it will have a monumentally
negative impact on certain games but I'm
deliberately choosing not to do that
I've done enough of that to be honest
lately so today is about how AI
contemporary large language models in
particular can and will in some cases
Revitalize video games the background
footage is old for the most part it's
from Indie spotlights I've done in the
past it's not up to date not even close
because I don't play nearly as many
games as I would like to anymore but I
have a couple Indie spotlights in the
works of valheim revisit more about
falling Frontier Etc et cetera so this
is me choosing to cover something in a
positive light and choosing to feel
optimistic about the future of gaming
that may prove to be embarrassingly
naive but I really hope not everyone
probably already knows about chat GPT
they know about the explosion of
language model AI myself and everyone
else it seems has harp done it
relentlessly the past few weeks but one
thing that stands out is you just how
incredible this new technology will be
for video games in particular sure we
might lose track of what's real and
what's fake on social media a terrifying
Prospect sure the world of scamming will
be propelled to new heights we never
even thought possible but the world of
video games will also be radically
changed and the changes there might be a
heck of a lot more interesting and fun
video games are all about escapism
that's why I use them that's why many
people use them but the world of gaming
is a Fickle creature for starters video
games fall out of popularity constantly
sometimes in very Extreme Ways leading
to population collapse which can
undermine the core function of a
multiplayer world and make the user
experience kind of sadly Barren and
empty that's a hard problem to overcome
actually right now it's kind of an
impossible problem to overcome without
radical Solutions but chat GPT may have
just provided the tools to accomplish
that very goal maybe not fully maybe not
in a way that blends seamlessly together
with no visible Kinks whatsoever but the
development of chat GPT and other
language models can and likely will
serve as a solution for depopulation in
various different game games or at the
very least a method of radically
expanding the surface level authenticity
of in-game Worlds let me explain this
right here is old school RuneScape this
video was originally made by a YouTuber
named sir pugger then reacted to by
asmine gold both are extremely excellent
channels by the way I'll have links Down
Below in the description and it's a
well-crafted piece of content truly it
is it's an excellent watch but it also
serves as a demonstration of just how
much potential there is for gaming
worlds to be redefined repopulated and
in a sense regrown hear me out this
video showcases the world of old school
RuneScape from the perspective of
someone concerned over the future of the
game perfectly reasonable actually
probably the most reasonable position to
have however understanding what may be
about to happen what if we assume the
best what if we assume that Humanity
will not gravitate towards immoral
behavior and what if this technology can
be used purely for good unlikely yes at
least in my opinion but certainly
possible it's not outside that realm
What If instead of being overrun by
undetectable bot accounts older style
MMO games are able to repopulate
themselves with authentic feeling
autonomous players allowing the
remaining legitimate player base to not
only have a better experience but also
increasing their sense of immersion
satisfaction and self-rewarding power
fantasy what if that were possible now
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really really hard for me not to spiral
off into some kind of dystopian rant
that's like my default state of being so
just yeah just keep that in mind the
danger here is colossal but I said I
would keep it positive if and I will sir
pugger has an Incredible video outlining
how the world of old school RuneScape is
effectively hanging in the balance as he
astutely diagnosed the nature of their
reality is at stake they being
old-school RuneScape Fanatics players
enjoyers enthusiasts whatever you want
to call them because undetectable Bots
programmed to have human interactions
that also increase the dopamine hit for
legitimate players through their
behavior patterns will overrun the world
most likely thereby changing the very
nature of the game for real humans but
what if and hear me out what if this
could be used for good what if you had a
system where older MMOs cast aside by
their proverbial overlords if you will
which does happen quite a lot could be
revitalized imagine it an outdated MMO
that persists with maybe just a few
hundred active players at any one time
which is a very common thing in the
industry suddenly has an explosion of
activity leading to The Sensation that
you are experiencing a world of tightly
packed and satisfying interactions
there's always someone to do a dungeon
with because you can't even really tell
that the profile is a bot there's always
someone to trade with because the
developers have set up AI integrated
vendors that are now indistinguishable
from Market obsessed humans and there's
always someone to fight against because
pre-scripted battles where you might
even be the winner have been coded right
into the bot behavior in an undetectable
way is that a bad thing or is it
incredible sure there are downsides I'm
trying not to focus on them but if they
script battle outcomes so that you win
or lose on a statistical model there
goes the skill ceiling and any semblance
of real satisfaction if you even know
it's happening but if used properly this
could be a system to generate low-level
Baseline interaction essential
interaction if you will on a whole new
level imagine if the vendors that you
visit actually talk to you imagine if
they trade with you while also holding a
competent conversation imagine if they
had a built-in morality slider that
dictated what type of conversation they
would have and if you were able to talk
to them over time slowly building out a
complex relationship pattern that
legitimately affected prices in the
store because of I don't know they have
their own long term memory with that
particular language model NPC abusable
glitchy written with exploits absolutely
at least early on but the positive
implications here are endless imagine if
the low-level tasks necessary to provide
a stable economic foundation in a game
like new world for example which I have
extensive experience in which had a
deflationary economic crisis early in
its lifespan could be scripted into
undetectable pseudo-human profiles how
would that look no one can say for sure
at least not yet but the proper machine
learning algorithm would theoretically
be able to manage a profile talk to
other players as if that profile were
human or maybe just respond to them but
some form of interaction remaining
undetectable exists with a preset
Loadout that further reinforces the idea
that this is just a noob Gathering basic
resources or something like that a task
that often gets relegated to bots anyway
in large MMO games is that really a bad
thing imagine if rather than players
using this emergent technology to break
games developers used it to populate
them with intended functions NPCs
walking around the city he wants at
least who could actually talk to you
hold a conversation and would be given
certain keyword triggers so that they
will dispense critical information if
you ask the right questions imagine what
this does for sidequest diversity go
here kill five things grab a chest
becomes go here find some clues some
contextual clues or text clues or pieces
of lore go talk to an NPC suspect in an
investigation there and actually talk to
them based on what you found either
obvious or difficult varying degrees you
had a lot of flexibility here you could
hold a conversation and when mentioning
certain things from the items you
collected or figuring out what to even
ask it the bot might get nervous or
scared or angry and it's all
pre-scripted in a way it's just
pre-scripted into the rules and the AI
is the actual conversation partner to
hammer this home sir pugger was
examining chat GPT 3.5 for his video
chatgpt4 which I have been using for my
Twitter bot experimentation there's a
couple videos on the channel it's really
into stuff but I'm not going to rehash
it here is way more advanced and can
easily remain undetectable to someone
simply trying to type back and forth
with it actually gpt4 is intermittently
passing What's called the Turing test
right now where humans are specifically
tested on whether or not they can tell
that it's an AI only failing because it
straight up says it's a language model
in half the responses there's an
abundance of research on this but the
main subject today is hypothetical uses
in gaming so I won't get too sidetracked
for the moment bot Behavior would be
relatively restricted to pre-programmed
physical movements but the chat
functionality well that already opens up
an unbelievable amount of options get
this on a World of Warcraft RP or role
play server called Ember roleplay chat
GPT is now allowing players to ask
questions of the guards Dynamic
questions and have them answer
accurately and organically it's actually
pretty cool it's very cool in fact and
lends itself extremely well to the sense
of immersion imagine it imagine being
able to walk up to an NPC any NPC in a
World of Warcraft server or obsidi and
ask them questions about lore with
accurate answers let's say you walked up
to a Warchief and because you haven't
interacted with him enough or might have
I don't know you haven't met a certain
respect threshold or something like that
he just spits at you or grunts but then
imagine that you have enough reputation
or qualifications to meet The Benchmark
and he'll actually listen to you not
just that he'll give you information in
those conversations he'll have like real
talks with you and you can ask him where
is the location to find a lot of enemies
that have high rewards all the time in
which case he directs you as a mercenary
let's say to I don't know the front
lines of their war with another faction
the possibilities are endless how about
another example Stanford scientists have
created a game simulation where AI
driven NPCs interact with each other and
while it may look simple and it is kind
of simple on his face it's actually
insane beneath the surface the
researchers concluded that it was able
to accurately replicate human social
behavior so far as to continue their
interactions day to day retrieve
long-term memories and when simulating a
Valentine's Day party that they kind of
augmented the subjects were sending
invitations to each other the AI
subjects asking each other out on dates
and becoming an isolated autonomous
world of believable social interactions
that a player could theoretically drop
into and participate in the agents being
studied became a coordinated community
of Highly social programs that is beyond
anything else we have seen in video
games to date especially when it comes
to immersion and all of this is just the
very very very immediate beginning AI
will continue to evolve advance and be
used for increasingly creative tasks
especially in video games with Untold
applications beyond that let's go one
step further generative text AI through
chat gpt4 combined with generative voice
AI through a service like 11 Labs can
create fully functioning
indistinguishable NPCs that act like
humans it's not perfect but well it's
not perfect yet obviously you could
still theoretically tell if they dropped
this into a game right now but yeah
check it out this is what I'm talking
about hey my name is test im a weapons
vendor in the big city and I would be
happy to show you my Wares please let me
know if you have any questions about
what I sell what weapons you can
purchase and what they should be used
for I can also give you some tips on
good training spots it's got a long way
to go and it's going to put a lot of
people out of work it's actually going
to probably destroy multiple work fields
and industries but the possible
implications of this on game world
population immersion complexity and
escapism are insane on the one hand this
will create the possibility for Bad
actors to infiltrate video games in an
undetectable way it's already happening
with jagex and RuneScape but on the
other it will mean that video game
economies social hierarchies story
structure dialogue progression and
pretty much every single additional
aspect of the world will become wildly
more advanced at a near exponential Pace
the danger is off the charts gaming
industry greed is an unchecked problem
already I've reported on a bunch of it
trust me I know and it'll probably only
get worse from here but if we assume
that the technology will primarily be
used for good and will not end up
destroying the very fabric of our
society it really is incredible to think
about I'm normally a pessimist I tend to
think that this will blow up in our face
but if it doesn't the potential is
unmatched the quality of games will soar
through the roof in terms of
authenticity and immersion the social
aspect will become a highly sculpted
perfectly controlled but undetectable
Maze of sorts and video games will
become a Truman show-esque phenomenon
where nothing you see can be trusted
because there's no guarantee that
anything around you is even human but
maybe that's okay me I'm terrified of
that when it comes to social media I
mean think about it elections politics
verifying authenticity on social media
is kind of a big deal and it will become
increasingly more important over the
coming years but video games are all
about escapism do we really log into a
video game to determine if everything
around us is real is there danger from
things in a video game not being real
when they're around us yes but it's not
the same it's on the same level as
social media and politics and these
other areas where AI is trading and if
things go well we're about to have an
explosion of possibilities that
radically enhance the creative potential
of the entire video game industry if I
sit here and deliberately choose to be
optimistic I can be it's not easy and
the danger is very real but I can see
how this might be incredible when the
government finally catches up and they
will catch up it's just going to take
them a while there will be a slew of
regulatory changes that require
disclosures like the FTC requires for
advertisements it'll be similar to that
because you could script every NPC in a
game or every fake user that is
undetectable to real players to plug
microtransactions subconsciously or be
psychologically manipulative or
incentivize purchases I mean the danger
is real now that I think about it
psychological manipulation is already
common in the video game industry so why
would it not bleed through with this and
become worse but again if we choose to
remain positive which I'm doing today
the upside is unmatched bottom line
large language models will become a
staple of modern gaming it will happen
very quickly it will result in
unbelievable advancements and it will be
dangerous but hopefully it ends up being
the next great leap for technology to
provide us with immersive and satisfying
Digital entertainment worlds I for one
am oddly excited and also terrified
hopefully this was a fun video obviously
different than a lot of my recent
content but honestly I'm starting to
really miss video games a lot more than
I thought I would I want to go back to
them a bit and take a breather the AI
is kind of burning me out but yeah
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