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I have been fantasizing over these virtual assistants since I played the Megaman Battle Network games.

by shifto 6y ago

segfaultbuserr 6y ago
I've spent many hours playing AI Dungeon, a text adventure game powered by GPT-3 (unlocking it requires payment). You input an arbitrary body of text, and GPT-3 keeps writing the story for you. You press enter, and the AI writes a new line. There are some serious limitations, but still, sometimes the plots are surprisingly creatively, as if the characters are alive, and I couldn't wait to see what follows it (it's rate-limited). I always think Machine Learning is merely a useful and flexible pattern recognition machine that can be trained, anything beyond that is all media hype and marketing, there's nothing to see here. Now my opinion has changed - if a pattern recognition machine that contains no breakthrough (GPT-3) can be surprisingly intelligent if you throw a lot of data to it, any new development cannot be worse than that. I'm now a true believer on the feasibility of AI assistants.
- chongli 6y ago
  I’m curious how you can be “playing” this for hours and hours. Isn’t AI Dungeon mostly just a toy, not a real game? There isn’t any goal, there’s nothing to figure out, there isn’t even a coherent state that I’m aware of. And that’s why I disagree with the claim that GPT-3 is in any way intelligent. It’s a chameleon. Or a Chinese room [1]. I think to have real intelligence you need a model for reality, not just a language model. Otherwise you can do nothing more than parrot and remix the words of others. Parrots are entertaining companions though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
  - Miraste 6y ago
    It's not like a video game, but it's not a toy either. To get good results you have to direct it and be mindful of its limitations, but if you're willing to approach it as a human-assisted story building application rather than a game, it's easy to put some hours into.

I have been fantasizing over these virtual assistants since I played the Megaman Battle Network games.

by shifto 6y ago

I have been fantasizing over these virtual assistants since I played the Megaman Battle Network games.

I've spent many hours playing AI Dungeon, a text adventure game powered by GPT-3 (unlocking it requires payment). You input an arbitrary body of text, and GPT-3 keeps writing the story for you. You press enter, and the AI writes a new line. There are some serious limitations, but still, sometimes the plots are surprisingly creatively, as if the characters are alive, and I couldn't wait to see what follows it (it's rate-limited). I always think Machine Learning is merely a useful and flexible pattern recognition machine that can be trained, anything beyond that is all media hype and marketing, there's nothing to see here. Now my opinion has changed - if a pattern recognition machine that contains no breakthrough (GPT-3) can be surprisingly intelligent if you throw a lot of data to it, any new development cannot be worse than that. I'm now a true believer on the feasibility of AI assistants.

chongli 6y ago
I’m curious how you can be “playing” this for hours and hours. Isn’t AI Dungeon mostly just a toy, not a real game? There isn’t any goal, there’s nothing to figure out, there isn’t even a coherent state that I’m aware of. And that’s why I disagree with the claim that GPT-3 is in any way intelligent. It’s a chameleon. Or a Chinese room [1]. I think to have real intelligence you need a model for reality, not just a language model. Otherwise you can do nothing more than parrot and remix the words of others. Parrots are entertaining companions though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
- Miraste 6y ago
  It's not like a video game, but it's not a toy either. To get good results you have to direct it and be mindful of its limitations, but if you're willing to approach it as a human-assisted story building application rather than a game, it's easy to put some hours into.