(Not my video, it's from the company)

So I'm in the beta test for a new game called Whispers from the Star and I'm super impressed by the model. I think it’s running on something GPT-based or similar, but what's standing out to me most is that it feels more natural than anything in the market now (Replika, Sesame AI, Inworld)... the character's movements, expressions, and voice feel super smooth to the point where it feels pre-recorded (except I know it's responding in real time).

The game is still in beta and not perfect, sometimes the model has little slips, and right now it feels like a tech demo... but it’s one of the more interesting uses of AI in games I’ve seen in a while. Definitely worth checking out if you’re into conversational agents or emotional AI in gaming. Just figured I’d share since I haven’t seen anyone really talking about it yet.

Heya - I'm a video game maker. I wanted to ask people thoughts on AI NPCs (generative ones, instead of old school logic ones). Why haven't we started seeing more of them?

I know we can easily already do conversation within a game with NPCs. With a solid system prompt and character definition, the NPC will be correct to the lore of the world.

I'm wondering what the next levels above that would be to implement.
The two directions I'm mulling over are:

• Society gossip : there is some world state that describes relationships between NPCs and we have them interacting based on those relationships. And you can "dip" into the drama.

• Action Taking : One of the biggest debates I have around this is any action taking is kinda like a tool/ function call almost, and in the future, maybe like "browser bot agent chatGPT" will be so good that hard coding actions wouldn't be worth it - instead the AI can just play almost as a user - through the normal UI.

Also, I was wondering what you guys thought was missing from AI Town, and why even though westworld is such a cool idea, we aren't yet seeing early success with that concept.