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Can writing an article about next-gen AI storytelling be an adventure?
We decided to find out by asking the video game AI Dungeon, fueled by today’s most highly advanced content creation platform, to co-write an article about … itself. As you can see from the resulting collaboration below, which includes our interview with the game’s creator, the game has quite a lot to say.
While the game offers players several traditional genre options—fantasy, sci-fi, cyberpunk, etc.—when starting a new campaign, we chose the “custom” experience and entered the text below to help the game’s AI set the stage:
You are an Adweek reporter writing about a text adventure role-playing game called AI Dungeon, which is powered by cutting-edge language generation machine learning.
The software engine behind the game was recently upgraded to research group OpenAI’s latest copy-generating model called GPT-3, trained on upwards of 100 times more data than the previous version, GPT-2. Released last month, the system was fed around a trillion words and cost $12 million to develop.
(Italicized text below was written by the game’s AI, which then responded to each subsequent paragraph in the article.)
The project has been controversial from day one. Some people believe that it will lead to a totalitarian future where artificial intelligence can be used for evil purposes like controlling the world or even taking over the planet.
You finally manage to get the AI to write an at least vaguely
Read more here: https://www.adweek.com/creativity/we-asked-todays-most-advanced-storytelling-ai-to-co-write-a-story-about-itself/
