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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the surface level authenticity of in-game Worlds let me explain this right here is old school RuneScape this video was originally made by a YouTuber named sir pugger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 for the sponsor and

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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

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 that's it if you want to support please consider checking out the links down below merch social media YouTube Alternatives also locals and patreon for monthly subscriptions also the video sponsor etc etc but I'll cut it there and stop rambling as always thank you all for

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