e412 — 3D or not 3D | Games At Work dot Biz

3D picture of a book with a silhouette of a face due to the folds of the paper and light shining on it — Photo by 愚木混株 cdd20 on Unsplash

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Published 17 April 2023

Michael, Andy and Michael are back at it again for another edition of Games at Work after taking a much needed break. After starting off with a few of the current features in film in theater, the co-hosts kick off this episode with a set of stories about 3D vision that does not require a headset. One example uses holographic technology to render objects in 3D, and another example from Sony shows objects in 3D in a television style screen.

Then, shifting gears, the team considers a recently published paper and accompanying RPG simulation of a town populated with 25 AIs. Looking at similarities and differences with the Sims and Simlish, some intriguing ideas are floated about how generative conversational AI could be employed to continue the storyline of a game where NPCs (non-player characters) could be powered by the conversational AI in a non proscriptive manner to further the story of the game. This follows on the show notes from e410 and gives an interesting idea of how 25 AIs could be seeded into an environment with social rules in a GAN way to see what happens.

Continuing on the theme of AI, the co-hosts discuss a GPT4-powered program that is designed to correct bugs automatically, codenamed Wolverine. This in turn spurs a thought about self-healing concrete. An amazing Medium post explores how ChatGPT and GPT4 was used to play the role of a dungeon master in a game of Dungeons and Dragons. You have to read through this post to experience just how good this interaction was. Frederico Viticci of MacStories introduces S-GPT on MacStories. S-GPT is an iOS Shortcut that connects ChatGPT with the native iOS features in an amazing way. This reminded Andy of Short Circuit (the app, not the movie). Wrapping things up for this episode, the team concludes with the prompt library called Jailbreak Chat.

How many AIs would you want to put in your version of a small RPG Minecraft town? Would you want to have your digital assistant on your phone access GPT4, and if so, what would you ask? Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz (our home for now) and let us know!

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