This AI text adventure game has pretty much infinite possibilities
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Reported today in The Verge.
This AI text adventure game has pretty much infinite possibilities
What will video games be like when they can truly harness the power of AI? If the machine learning-powered text adventure AI Dungeon 2 is anything to go by, they'll be open-ended, ludicrously silly, and bags of fun to play.
AI Dungeon 2 isn't exactly a polished game, but more of a passion project from developer Nick Walton. He's harnessed the power of a state-of-the-art, open-source text generation system built by OpenAI and fed it a bunch of texts in the style of Choose Your Own Adventure books. The result is a text adventure where, to modify a cliché, the only limit is the AI's imagination.
You can play AI Dungeon 2 for yourself here. Once you've gone through a bit of in-browser setup, you can select from a number of fantasy settings before being let loose. Then you can do pretty much whatever you like. You can go fight evil orcs, or befriend them and start a new religion. You can settle down in a farm somewhere and grow amusingly shaped pumpkins, or you can just straight-up become a god. Or multiple gods. Whatever you like!
A heads-up, though: Dungeon 2 is getting quite a bit of attention at the moment and it seems to be slowing down the game's operation. While you wait, you can see what others have been doing in the game over on Twitter. Creator Nick Walton joined a band:
That time I joined a band of Orcs as their drummer and toured the kingdom. Read the rest of this adventure from AI Dungeon 2 here: https://t.co/3EALbctcUE pic.twitter.com/LBregimM2j
Others looked for a way out of the simulation:
I was trying to break the game but I think I broke reality pic.twitter.com/d4BpC2mQ2Q
The Verge's T.C. Sottek tried to overpower the monsters, but suffered some sort of a my