AI Dialogue is Here. How to Make it not Boring?

[Maxwell's Demon]

I really dislike the approach of people who think about writing as a content creation process. This mindset, especially combined with the obsession about being productive leads to thinking that more is better and flooding readers with useless stuff. The strength of writing lies in it's relation to reality, not in as many worlds content producer can vormit. This is why popular tropes often don't work. They were originally integral parts of better works, that fulfill some role within their context, but lesser author rips them apart and they stop working.

You're really selling the technology short. GPT-3 doesn't just generate language, it can also be used to interpret language.




AI will let you give detailed verbal instructions to NPCs. It will bring about a new kind of user interface.

That's an amazing assistant for disabled or old people. However, the fact that the robot is able to recognize simple commands, like move object A to place B or remember previous commands does not make it a good storyteller.

GPT-3 just generates and interprets text. GPT-3 needs another layer of AI to supervise it in order to generate complete stories, much like how a second AI layer interfaces with GPT-3 in order to direct the robot's motions. Keep in mind that a video game NPC functions in an analogous way to the motion of a physical robot, but NPC functions are far simpler to implement due to the abstraction of a virtual medium.

There's already a product called NovelAI out there that generates stories that is still a bit rough around the edges, but with the rapid pace of this field's development right now, NovelAI could become capable of producing commercially viable novels in as little as a year's time. That is so long as NovelAI doesn't fall prey to what is becoming the most common pitfall in AI development: getting lobotomized due to normie outrage. Who could have expected AI developers to be a bunch of spineless cucks with zero pride in their own work? Well, that's an issue for another thread, really...

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

So how long until AI replaces code monkeys while humans only define inputs for the code in user friendly UI?

Coding now: google problem, copy paste code, compile
Coding then: tell AI problem, copy paste code, compile, AI enslaves humanity.

Hardly anything changes.

As an amateur coder I can tell you 99.9% of modern devs don't even make it that far because their cookie cutter engine already has the code they need and if they did make it that far they'd catch flak from the higher ups for trying to overcomplicate the codebase. Secondly, good luck finding answers to your precise scenario on google. It'll only lead you on a wild goose chase through stackoverflow for 3 hours until you find some buried comment that's close enough for you to fill in the blanks.

Exactly. I had a coding question. When I asked Google, I got Stackoverflow results that weren't even close to what my question was about. ChatGPT got me a lot closer, a lot faster, by telling me that what I wanted to do was impossible and why. I still had to figure out what I wanted to get around that myself, but when I finally figured out a solution, ChatGPT evaluated it instantly.

It's still highly imperfect, but the potential is clearly there.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

So how long until AI replaces code monkeys while humans only define inputs for the code in user friendly UI?

Coding now: google problem, copy paste code, compile
Coding then: tell AI problem, copy paste code, compile, AI enslaves humanity.

Hardly anything changes.

As an amateur coder I can tell you 99.9% of modern devs don't even make it that far because their cookie cutter engine already has the code they need and if they did make it that far they'd catch flak from the higher ups for trying to overcomplicate the codebase. Secondly, good luck finding answers to your precise scenario on google. It'll only lead you on a wild goose chase through stackoverflow for 3 hours until you find some buried comment that's close enough for you to fill in the blanks.

Exactly. I had a coding question. When I asked Google, I got Stackoverflow results that weren't even close to what my question was about. ChatGPT got me a lot closer, a lot faster, by telling me that what I wanted to do was impossible and why. I still had to figure out what I wanted to get around that myself, but when I finally figured out a solution, ChatGPT evaluated it instantly.

It's still highly imperfect, but the potential is clearly there.

But someone trained ChatGPT to do the thing you wanted it to do. Google is like a phonebook.

Next time: post the wrong answer in Stackoverflow. You'll solve your problem in 10 minutes.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

But someone trained ChatGPT to do the thing you wanted it to do. Google is like a phonebook.

No, someone trained CGPT on every answer from Stack ever, and probably Github as well. Didn't really train it to do the thing I wanted. Trained it to do a bit of everything.

Next time: post the wrong answer in Stackoverflow. You'll solve your problem in 10 minutes.

That's assuming you get a correct answer, but yeah.

 

[Peachcurl]

The code ChatGPT generates often has bugs, rarely even runs. Surprisingly, it's still pretty useful.

 

[Maxwell's Demon]

The code ChatGPT generates often has bugs, rarely even runs. Surprisingly, it's still pretty useful.

The code humans write always has bugs and never works on the first compile, so that's essentially human-equivalent.

 

[Reggin Backward]

Here's a better idea, why don't these game developers spend their time and money on making actual innovative video games instead of wasting energy on the ai pipe dream? It's so tiresome.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Here's a better idea, why don't these game developers spend their time and money on making actual innovative video games instead of wasting energy on the ai pipe dream? It's so tiresome.

A modder made the video. AFAIK, there's only one game that uses GPT for content, and it's a $5 indie roguelike.

 

[Reggin Backward]

Okay I should have clarified that I was speaking in general. I wasn't talking about this video/project in particular, my bad.

 

[OndrejSc]