A few months back there was some demo of a game (The Matrix Awakens) hooked to an LLM and some TTS. It was cool. You could walk around a city talking to everyo

A few months back there was some demo of a game (The Matrix Awakens) hooked to an LLM and some TTS. It was cool. You could walk around a city talking to everyone you pass. The most unrealistic part of it was also that you could walk around a city talking to everyone you pass. Real people walking in cities don't have time or the desire to stop and talk to strangers about the meaning of life for 20 minutes. unfortunately the chat is discrete from the NPC that represents it. It doesn't know where it is in the city, it doesn't actually see the player. You say anything to the chat that will change what the npc is doing? e.g provoke it to attack etc. tl;dr the illusion falls apart when you take the LLM outside a chat window context. Even just to add dialogue for an NPC.