Surprising things happen when you put 25 AI agents together in an RPG town
arstechnica.comI like how they summarise the content history, I wonder if you could get the Large language model (LLM) like ChatGPT-4 to do the summarisation once the token window was full?
I was thinking about how you could do something like this. Prime the LLM with description of the character and feed the dialogue back into it to generate realistic NPC dialogue. Have some logic behind it to update the chat log with events, perhaps quest prompts. Doable with the current price of$0.03/1k prompt tokens. Not sure you could do this on a triple A game with the dependency on an outside provider that might jack the prices and possible impossible to predict behaivour. But it might be fun in a small indi game?
I wasn't anticipating the interaction between the NPCs. That would make it even more immersive. I am also curious how they got the output in chat-gpt to influence the NPCs movements and actions?
Demo of the simulation can be found here: https://reverie.herokuapp.com/arXiv_Demo/
This gives me hope. I know when I'm old, I'll have some sort of a virtual AI environment to keep me occupied when my kids stop visiting and everyone I know is old or dead.
It makes me uneasy to think I could have dementia and have forgotten all about these new developments, and interact with these without understanding they are AI.
Yeah, that can be a bit unsettling.
But, on the bright side, the important thing is that these developments can ease life for folks with dementia by learning their routines and their habits via AI. Then provide prompts for the elderly to allow them to live happily. These prompts can help you "remember" things without feeling lost or terrified. They can also provide them with a conversational partner without costing healthcare industry a lot of money.
My fear is that I will develop dementia, Alzheimer's and feel alone and isolated. I'm honestly more afraid of being alone and feeling terrified than forgetting and living my remaining days out in relative peace and happiness.
I just listed to a podcast (Freakonomics M.D.) about the effect raising the minimum wage in nursing homes; paying more lead to better outcomes.
One of the theories was that less turnover meant that the caregivers were more familiar with a particular patient and therefore more likely to notice when something changed. Someone coming in cold might not realize that "confused and incontinent" was not the normal state for this particular patient.
An AI that chats with the patient every day could definitely notice changes. Of course it has dystopian overtones - it sounds a lot like the baseline test in Blade Runner 2049, or the reintegration droid for ex-imperials in Star Wars.
Yet an AI that can always be there with the patient is a best case scenario for a lot of people - especially those who can lead somewhat independent lives.
In nursing homes, the reality is most nursing home employees are just there for a paycheck and only there for a shift - while patients are there 24x7. We need better 24x7 care for them.
Right, out of those two options the AI friends do sound more appealing.
You could also have dementia and people steal all your stuff and molest you while pretending to be your child.
It’s weird to get anxious about obscure possible things that could happen.
I would rather live the horrifying reality, instead of the matrix
> In addition, they created an architecture that simulates minds with memories and experiences
This sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I’m excited to see what they actually did. Semantic search in past text? Some lossy encoding if past world state? Something else entirely?
Also, I’m interested to hear what they’re doing with action spaces. It sounds like RL, so what’s the reward function?
I understand that the "persistence" in GPT chats is just "feed the chat history back in before the new prompt."
If that's true, the "history" feature here might just be "you are a grocer, here is your backstory, and here is your chat history, now GO."
Give me this game already. I want rimworld with GPT characters. Why is nobody taking my money?
The most surprising thing, someone worked out how to tilemap all the Modern Interior walls properly.
Much larger discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35517649
save a click: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442