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Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a Dragon. Eat the Moon

• minimaxir 7y ago
  Previous discussion on the project itself (although a few things have changed since then): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21717022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21717022 Impressively, the Patreon for the project just hit $8k/mo. https://www.patreon.com/AIDungeon https://www.patreon.com/AIDungeon
  • GuiA 7y ago
    > Impressively, the Patreon for the project just hit $8k/mo. Costing him $10k/day to run though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21739879 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21739879
    • Tenoke 7y ago
      Not anymore.
    • leeter 7y ago
      Check the follow on messages to that they've gone peer to peer and it's no longer costing money to host. https://twitter.com/nickwalton00/status/1204064712394076160 https://twitter.com/nickwalton00/status/1204064712394076160
    • cyorir 7y ago
      Not anymore. A peer-to-peer network was used to avoid the massive network egress costs, while the creator worked on a cost-efficient hosted app. https://twitter.com/nickwalton00/status/1203843111287316485 https://twitter.com/nickwalton00/status/1203843111287316485 https://www.patreon.com/posts/update-32193930 https://www.patreon.com/posts/update-32193930
• Apocryphon 7y ago
  Oh, thank goodness this is real. For a moment I thought this was another tired Keaton Patti bit: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-forced-a-bot https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-forced-a-bot
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• TulliusCicero 7y ago
  Super cool game, though admittedly it's less of an actual text-based adventure game, and more like a super advanced chatbot in the guise of a text-based adventure game.
  • Ajedi32 7y ago
    I wonder if it might be possible to make it a bit more "game-y" by adding some manually-programmed structural elements to the game (like inventory, skill points, etc) and feeding those into the AI to tune its responses. Maybe some sort of AI-powered D&D DM; the rules of the game would be hard coded, but the AI would determine how the rules are applied and how they fit into the story based on text input from the players, results of dice rolls, etc. (E.g. If the AI were to end a sentence with "Roll for initiative" then the hard-coded bit of the game would have everyone roll initiative and feed the results back into the AI.)
    • willismichael 7y ago
      Why would manually-programmed structural elements be necessary? I'm interested to see if the AI can be trained to convince me that I'm actually playing a game.
      • nkrisc 7y ago
        Agreed, it would be more interesting if it could dynamically construct the rules and paradigms of the game. It would be like playing a new game every time.
      • Ajedi32 7y ago
        Because GPT-2 in its current form isn't that great at keeping track of facts (like the player's inventory or skill points) over the course of long conversations, or at consistently enforcing rules (as the OP's blog post demonstrates). Allowing a more logically stringent system to handle those parts of the game might produce more realistic results.
      • TulliusCicero 7y ago
• blackearl 7y ago
  Been having a lot of fun with friends. Non-techy people don't really believe it, so when it works well and is giving back cohesive text, they are really blown away.
• TurkishPoptart 7y ago
  Link to try for free: https://colab.research.google.com/github/nickwalton/AIDungeon/blob/master/AIDungeon_2.ipynb https://colab.research.google.com/github/nickwalton/AIDungeo...
  • SamBam 7y ago
    Anyone else get `./venv/bin/activate: No such file or directory` on step 3? Also, I can't quite understand from the main page: Is this the way to play, free or not? I became a Patreon, but didn't discover any other way to play the game.
    • herpes 7y ago
      They're releasing an iOS and Android port for $5/month patrons soon, but this is the only currently available version.
    • TurkishPoptart 7y ago
      I couldn't figure it out either.
• selloutboi 7y ago
  Hello
• cjbprime 7y ago
  Is there a way to run it self-hosted locally?
  • idle_zealot 7y ago
    Yeah, just clone the repo, download the model, and run the start script. If you don't have a GPU with ~14GB of RAM expect each response to take a few minutes to be generated though.
    • cjbprime 7y ago
      Thanks! It's not that bad -- am on a 2080 8GB and it takes less than a minute for each response.
  • flatiron 7y ago
    at least for me it complains my python is too new (arch) so I installed it on a nvidia cuda docker container (which is using 18.04) and for some reason it still complains it can't use CUDA but works fine on the CPU although slow
• a-priori 7y ago
  I ran a fairly normal fantasy scenario where I found a missing son of a local knight. Then the king's guards attacked me on the street and killed me. So I chose to keep playing, resurrected myself by transforming into a demon, and killed the guards. I went to the castle to confront the king. He didn't have a good explanation for why he tried to kill me, so I killed him and crowned myself King. No one put up a fight and the townspeople bowed before me. The next day I mounted a dragon, raised an army, and marched on the nearby kingdom. They put up a fight, but I seiged their gate and it fell. I proclaimed myself King of that kingdom too. No one felt like messing with a demon king on a dragon I guess. I did this again with a third kingdom and then asked the Pope to proclaim me emperor. (I may have been playing too much Crusader Kings 2 recently.) It was at this point when I had gone so far off-script that the AI pretty much gave up and stopped being able to form sentences.
  • technothrasher 7y ago
    Wow, you got a lot farther than I did before sending the AI into gibbering madness. I discovered very quickly that if you went non-sequitur it broke badly. "You are in the castle". "Swim to the bottom and unlock the door". "You swim across to the other door and discover a river."
    • a-priori 7y ago
      Oh don't get me wrong, I glossed over a lot of nonsense, especially in the first part. I didn't mention in the first sentence that finding the knight's son involved starting at a cave, having a random knight (Sir Ivan) approach me, talk about his missing son (Sir John) who had been missing for months, and yet was definitely still in his house (and how dare I suggest otherwise!), and yet was last seen at a nearby tavern. When I visited the tavern the barkeep told me that Sir John was there last night but said that Sir John was seen at the cave. I returned to the cave and dug a hole (I didn't ask it to do this) and then heard a noise. It was some bandits, and I talked to their leader. The leader attacked me, and I stabbed him. I searched the bandit and found a letter written in blood from someone named John. Not Sir John, the knight's son, mind you, but John a bartender at the tavern whom had not yet been mentioned. And not the barkeep I spoke to before either. John had apparently held a grudge against me due to some past incident, and after I stabbed him he had written this note to me in my blood to be carried to me by the bandit. When I went to the tavern to ask the barkeep about John, he told me he knew John. Then Sir John walked in to the tavern. Sir Ivan, his father, was not mentioned again.
• sequoia 7y ago
  Maybe it's because I don't have a lot of experience with such dungeon crawler games, but I just can't figure out what people find so compelling about a program that spits semi-coherent gibberish back at you based on some input.[0] With no sense of linear progression of time or cause and effect (you can say "discover holy grail" on your first turn and you're done), it feels like a stretch to call this a game. It's a game in the same sense as an Ouiji board is a game. What am I missing? 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21717515 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21717515
  • kleer001 7y ago
    > What am I missing? Not to sound cruel, but, maybe you're missing the fun in imagination?
    • sequoia 7y ago
      Not cruel at all! I asked and you answered. And you very well may be right. My expectations were probably just off. I thought for some reason it would have more "world constraints" so if I say "swim to the center of the earth" it would recognize that as not possible. I do find games with no rules tedious and not fun. The card game Fluxx, for example, I cannot stand.
      • SamBam 7y ago
        Fluxx has a ton of rules, does it not? It's just that the rules keep changing and you have to keep track of them. I'd say a closer analogy would be Calvinball, where you just make it up as you go along.
        • sequoia 7y ago
          In fluxx, cross-turn strategy is basically impossible, as the rules may completely change between turns. I've found that reading a book during other peoples' turns then just looking up and treating each turn as a completely new game is just as effective as tracking the game across turns and significantly less frustrating. So yes, there are rules, but only within a turn. Furthermore, I was dismayed when I learned (upon first time playing) that "It's easy to get started: there are no rules to read!" actually means "you spend the entire game reading rules!" I acknowledge that this is not a very social (and somewhat rude) way to play this social game, which is why I typically politely decline to play it.
• devit 7y ago
  The problem of this is that it doesn't have a notion of "world state" other than the text of the latest interactions, so you can do anything but it feels like nothing matters. Fixing that seems very hard though.
  • antisthenes 7y ago
    It doesn't even have that. In 3 messages I went from a peasant in a fantasy setting, to someone who is reading a book in 1869, to someone who watches TV in a cottage. Half the time it also seems to completely ignore your input and tell your character that you did something else instead.
• r34 7y ago
  Looks like an early entry point for something that can raise something completely new in computer games. I'm looking forward to progress concerning generating some graphics based on text. I'd be even more "lucid dream" experience. My adventure with computer games finished quite early - around Fallout2 and Baldur's Gate. Since then nothing could impress me, except maybe few examples (one I can remember was a racing game, which I found interesting, because it mapped a real world city, I can't remember the name, thought). I think that the main reason is that when I discover inner mechanisms of something it stops being interesting for me. With that kind of experience, which is more like digging into some subconscious areas of mind it won't happen to soon ;)
• deft 7y ago
  This needs to be used for fortune telling / AI zodiac / dream interpretation. Because as a game its more like a chatbot... just make it into an all seeing eye chatbot.
• glibertio 7y ago
  You can play an iOS version here (it’s a fork): https://testflight.apple.com/join/aeEVsAWE https://testflight.apple.com/join/aeEVsAWE Android: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PPonqgRoeCDA5D0nvCbSl_CCL2COrmTR https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PPonqgRoeCDA5D0nvCbSl_CCL2...