Post by chronoeclipse on Jan 23, 2020 13:14:54 GMT -6
I saw that Kappa had mentioned this in the shoutbox below while I was up to my eyeballs in non-AP related work. But I wanted to make a thread to have a more in depth convo about it with whoever had poked around on it.
For those of you who have no idea what it is - it's a new app you can download on your phone that is programmed to act as a DM for various role playing scenarios. So it can walk you through a fantasy roleplay or a Noir story or a Zombie survival setting etc. You set it up and the program will provide you text describing what's going on and you get to reply with anything you want! Then it will respond to that and integrate your words and actions into the story!
The program is surprisingly intuitive. Which is probably the coolest thing about it. If you tell it that you pick up a glass of milk - even if it hasn't introduced *milk* into the story, it might have you drink the milk or get bumped and spill the milk - like it understands what *milk* is. Which is where it's actually kind of cool when it comes to AP scenarios. You can tell it that you have a magic aging ray and you zap the girls on stage at a modeling competition and the program will describe their hair turning grey and them screaming about losing their youth.
If I were to guess how it does this my thought would be that the program scours the internet for text related to whats happening or the verbs and nouns use and that informs how to respond. Which would also explain why it goes so horribly wrong some time.
See there have been a few examples in the past couple years of people developing AI that can do creative things (For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure AI dungeon isn't as close to AI as these examples - it's just a very smart program with a lot of range). Case in point there was a program that was designed to WRITE a new Christmas song by essentially combing through the internet and pulling every picture of 'christmas' that's available and then using it's understanding of those images to compose the lyrics of it's song. Well - this is what it came up with:
digg.com/video/ai-christmas-carol
It evidently saw trimmings and poinsettias etc. as flowers and then determined that Christmas is all about flowers.
But all this to say - it's very interesting and feels like we're maybe not too far away from a computer validating all our crazy age-change fantasies.
What are your thoughts? Anyone had some fun playing around with AP scenarios in the app? I'll share some of my misadventures after I hear from some of you folks.
For those of you who have no idea what it is - it's a new app you can download on your phone that is programmed to act as a DM for various role playing scenarios. So it can walk you through a fantasy roleplay or a Noir story or a Zombie survival setting etc. You set it up and the program will provide you text describing what's going on and you get to reply with anything you want! Then it will respond to that and integrate your words and actions into the story!
The program is surprisingly intuitive. Which is probably the coolest thing about it. If you tell it that you pick up a glass of milk - even if it hasn't introduced *milk* into the story, it might have you drink the milk or get bumped and spill the milk - like it understands what *milk* is. Which is where it's actually kind of cool when it comes to AP scenarios. You can tell it that you have a magic aging ray and you zap the girls on stage at a modeling competition and the program will describe their hair turning grey and them screaming about losing their youth.
If I were to guess how it does this my thought would be that the program scours the internet for text related to whats happening or the verbs and nouns use and that informs how to respond. Which would also explain why it goes so horribly wrong some time.
See there have been a few examples in the past couple years of people developing AI that can do creative things (For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure AI dungeon isn't as close to AI as these examples - it's just a very smart program with a lot of range). Case in point there was a program that was designed to WRITE a new Christmas song by essentially combing through the internet and pulling every picture of 'christmas' that's available and then using it's understanding of those images to compose the lyrics of it's song. Well - this is what it came up with:
digg.com/video/ai-christmas-carol
It evidently saw trimmings and poinsettias etc. as flowers and then determined that Christmas is all about flowers.
But all this to say - it's very interesting and feels like we're maybe not too far away from a computer validating all our crazy age-change fantasies.
What are your thoughts? Anyone had some fun playing around with AP scenarios in the app? I'll share some of my misadventures after I hear from some of you folks.