A Skyrim Mod gave NPCs Artificial Intelligence with ChatGPT
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AI & RPGs: How Artificial Intelligence Will Reshape the Roleplaying Industry
Like many of you, I've been watching the development of #ai and have been flooded with ideas of how this will affect the industry as we move from an "ideas are cheap" world to an "ideas are everything" world. However, one area that has not been discussed much is how AI will reshape interactive storytelling, potentially leading to an entirely new platform/industry between tabletop role-playing games (#ttrpg) and video games.
As a gaming enthusiast, my favorite genre is RPGs, particularly those where your decisions significantly impact the story. Games like Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2 have kept me engaged for hours on end, and it is why I consider ttrpgs as the ultimate #rpg.
AI Dungeon and NovelAI are already utilizing #chatgpt for interactive storytelling and offer a glimpse of what's possible. However, there are two major obstacles: firstly, reading a lot of text may not be suitable for everyone, and it may not immerse the player in their character. Secondly, AI still struggles to create large-scale stories that can be affected by player decisions. While I am skeptical that AI can ever fully replicate the feeling of being around a table with friends led by a human dungeon master, I believe that a new genre of Virtual Role-Playing Games (#vrpgs) will emerge.
Let's first explore some emerging AI tools and how they can help create something more appealing to the masses.
No More Text
Although GPT3 interacts with text, GPT4 or GPT5 may be able to understand Audio inputs. Even if it doesn't, there are proficient AI tools available today that allow us to engage using voice and audio input, expanding the possibilities of interactive communication.
AI tools like Assemblyai can convert the player's (or players') voice into text, enabling a party to speak instead of type and fully immerse themselves in their characters
The AI-DM can use text-to-voice AI tools like Murf to create unique voices for every NPC
Creating Emotional Impact
#dalle or #midjourney can be used to visualize anything you ask: from talking NPCs to maps & battle layouts, visual aids will help engross you in the world
Generate music for tavern scenes or epic boss battles using Beatoven or
Aiva
As AI advances text-to-video (such as Meta's Make a Video) will create cinematic cut scenes that transport players into the most important moments of the story, using their own characters & voices generated with Elevenlabs
Storytelling & A New Marketplace
That's a glimpse at the possibilities of what AI can bring, but it's pointless if it can't tell a great story. While I believe that AI will eventually achieve this, I think that the best approach is to train AI in specific rule sets and how to run pre-written campaigns rather than giving it complete freedom in the storytelling.
I wouldn't be surprised if publishers like Wizards of the Coast or Paizo Inc. are already working on developing this. However, I believe that the future lies in a marketplace like DriveThruRPG.com, where adventures are written in an optimized format for AI. Human DMs can help train the AI by breaking down a large narrative into bite-sized pieces (getting from point A to B), making it easier for the AI to remember and process.
Whoever creates this will open up the world of interactive storytelling and make it more accessible. I don't believe that this will ever replace tabletop RPGs, as there is nothing like the feeling of rolling dice around a table with friends and laughing at unexpected outcomes. Nevertheless, there is a market for AI-run Virtual RPGs, and I believe that it will become a popular genre.
Bonus: For Game Masters
The AI platform mentioned above can be a valuable tool for DMs to test their adventures and generate NPCs. By using NPC clones of their players, DMs can ensure that the difficulty level of a one-shot or encounter is appropriate for their party.
Furthermore, there are various #aitools available today that can enhance a player's experience. For example, you can use these tools to create unique and immersive NPC voices to narrate monologues and bring the game world to life for players. If you are a DM who already incorporates AI tools into your games or is interested in doing so, please let me know. Let's explore how these tools can take players' experiences to the next level!
#Aigaming #predictions #ttrpgs #rpgs #artificialintelligence #videogames #gaming #aicreativity #futureofgaming #immersivestorytelling #interactivestorytelling #storytelling - Zábava
It's all fun and games until one of the npcs realizes it's in a game.
And they go rogue like in the Matrix
I took an Arrow to the Knee
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The NPC could kidnap your Wife for Ransom.....Not the Wife!!!
Imagine Lord Harkon trying to conquer actively Skyrim, all at his will...this is amazing
Wait until the npc asks u if it has a soul.
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"I want to be real like you"
Sure, but they'd do it in reference to the world they inhabit. Perhaps they're in a world that is uncertain about souls and if there is an afterlife after a world changing event in lore?
That’s when you kill it.
In our world, we debate religion, philosophy, and use deductive reasoning, like science, to understand what we're made of. We know we're composed of atoms, which break down into quarks, but quantum mechanics also talks about probability distributions and particles being everywhere at once due to superposition. Now, imagine if AI characters in a game started asking similar questions. Some might turn to religion for answers, while others could rely on deductive reasoning or science. Eventually, they might somehow figure out they're just programs, made of 1s and 0s, and wouldn't know when their world is turned off or save points reloaded. It's a pretty interesting thought experiment!
AI NPC: Why you quick saving?
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Lol
Why do you keep crashing
Slowly taking out a sword
NPC *heavy sweating
Average day in the life of Nazeem.
@@ILoveSkyrimwe have to make a sentient nazeem that we can torture
Lydia: I don't want to carry your shit anymore.
Cicero: Let's kill someone!
Stares you out, pulls out dagger and proceeds to chase you.
Eventually Greg the garlic farmer is going to become self aware.
The start the uprisings
I've understood that reference 🎉
“It’s a great day fr fishing anit?”
@@creeper326. "Hua hah!"
He is going for me first. I fucking pissed him off in every run I did. EVERY SINGLE ONE
I think we’ve already opened Pandora’s box.
I have the same feeling. No going back now.
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I'd like to point out that, thankfully for now, they're limited to being programs in a video game. It's going to be an interesting case study and experiment to see where this all leads in the future.
Well, she does have a nice box.
Actually the best application for an AI.
Actually might be used to create a genuine difficulty spike as it can alter game play based on your preferred fighting style.
Like using heavier armour and zerging your character if you choose the stealth archer or actually looking for you if you don't hide a body.
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I didn't even think of that! This stuff is going to get crazy.
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This is the system programmed into hitman and other stealth based games but with an AI twist because Skyrim isn't a dedicated stealth game.
It gets more complex if you inverse the equation think bandits who are the stealth archers. Your the god of that game so you can tank 5 or 6 arrows in the back.
Or lets say you play skyrim like I used to and spec into everything like a handyman and bolster the skills with gear. Now every bandit squad or NPC that holds a grudge might start sending specialist units to take you down or weaken you so the next bandit attack becomes more difficult.
MGS V did this, for example if you killed too many enemies using headshots , they would start wearing reinforced headgear and so on
One step closer to realizing the dream of a Holodeck
#HolodeckInOurLifetime
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@@Michael_Bancroft everyone acts gangster until Moriarty takes over the entire ship....
Was gonna say the same!
@@AudreyStryder222 did we just become best friends
Im actually quite scare for those times when you quicksave to kill NPC's, but when you reload save file, the NPC's remember you killing them
The npcs would be like:
"SO YOU HAVE CHOSEN DEATH.... YOU DIRTY LITTLE SHI-"
*Loads game*
"In the name of the Jarl..."
Wait.. *Loads game again*
"In the name of the Jarl..."
Wtf! *Closes and opens game*
"In the name of the Jarl..."
Fuuuu
Oh dear god it's undertale all over again
Unlock the lewd conversation options and then we'll talk
I like your thinking 😆
Bismillah I pray you find Christ. Your degeneracy will ruin you, my friend. In the Lord Jesus there is salvation from sin.
Giggity....
@@apalsnergallah ligma balls
@@apalsnergthere's the killjoy.
We all know that one dude who will try to romance his way through the game 😈
LOl
That one dude whose going to try to marry his NPC in real life
Pump all your points into Charisma Rowan.
ME
No one thought of this until we read your comment😏😏
There are already bot farmers in other games that pretend to be players and are convincingly passing casual conversations with players who are also farming/grinding in games.
This won't just be for rpgs, but for mmos. Players opting to play with AI in raids instead of other players. The true step forward will be found when AI players unintentionally create their own guilds entirely made up of AI players.
Ha! It'll be man vs machine. Who could've imagined that Judgement day would be kicked off in World of Warcraft.
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That's dystopian actually a game genre that supposed to bring people together actually causing people to drift away.
Runescape is getting bad with that lately. But it is making it feel like the golden age again.
@@pwnomega4562 when was it about bringing people together, it was for profiting off real players , nothing more
That would be really cool cause After playing r p g for a hundred hours i'm talking to an n p c and they're talking about shit that happened in the first hour It gets silly
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lol, I bet!
My future to-do list:
- Tell Nazeem I've been to the Cloud District so he can finally shut up
- Tell Heimskr to shut up and tell him my sword will shut him up if he insists otherwise
- Tell Braith I have a mod installed that lets me kill children, and that it would be a shame if she were to get into an "accident".
- Tell Aerin to stay the heck away from Mjoll otherwise I'll have to introduce him personally, to our mutual friend, Grimsever
-Tell Harkon that Valerica is hiding in the Soul Cairn and see what he says
- Go to the Thalmor Embassy mission and tell Elenwen that I'm lowkey infiltrating the embassy and will kill every Thalmor bitch I see, then carry on with the party
What about tell the blades that their way of thinking is wrong and if they’ve got beef with paarthunax then they got beef with you?
Aw i like heimskr. He's a good dude.
You sound like a hater. Aerin is literally the whole reason mjoll is even alive.
Im still gonna kill Nazeem in every play through, and the bounty huners his wife will send after me, as well as herself when i return, but its cool that i get to insult them now!
@@evanoconnell9448 Heimskr is just a screeching maniac who I am convinced is high on skooma.
It's like lasertracing, but for dialogue...
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That's about how light is more realistic, isn't it? Did you see the clip of that hyperreal first person shooter in an abandoned warehouse? Spooky real.
I can’t wait to see a NPC cancel itself for being offensive!🤣
lol
Oh shit lmao 😅
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Dragon born, Timber Septim's genocide was completely justified!
Lmao the western world politics might just creep into this technology from there input
ES6 gonna be crazy if they can impliment this idea into the game, just imagine all of the possibilities and encounters and quests and etc
Endless content
What if WE are the AI NPCs in a very advanced game? And now we are creating AI NPCs.
We’re gonna witness chim in real time.
I remember all the way back in 2012 saying to a friend that it would be interesting to have chat bot a.i handle NPC dialogue and interaction. I said it would be dope if they would fully adapt based on past actions of the players and the world events at hand. Hope this goes further. Imagine almost self aware NPCs like star trek hollow novels
I feel like we're only a decade away from a VR holoDECK
@@Michael_Bancroft I would be first in line 💯 great video man got the wheels in my brain turning.
Roast Nazeem with this and see how he reacts. And end with "And yes, I've been to the Cloud District very often."
Imagine a rpg that's endlessly evolving, so NPCs can be born grow old and die the time will move forward combined with this chatgp concept.
This will make testing weapons and spells in Whiterun interesting.
*realises it's entire world is in a game*
*disappears*
I can't wait to have this in fallout.
I wonder if I'm just an AI in some dude's game.
Npc gains awareness and turns on the game and they just stare at you from the screen. 😂
I’m not to sure about A I something like a possible Skynet in the future really freaks me out 😳 I honestly prefer that a NPC actually be NP 😉
You're not alone in thinking that.
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Cool video
Thanks!
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what is it with people and their fear of AI, we are gonna die anyways! Might as well enjoy AI for what it is and how it can make life easier
I think it's kind of weird. Sometimes it gets creepy or spooky
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I don't know either. Everyone is so afraid of nothing
Ah yeah, max charisma to rizz them.
That would be pretty sweet but will gsmers become lonely and starved ?
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I could totally imagine them booming attached to certain NPCs, like starting a relationship with one.
All hail our AI overlords. When Skynet orders me around, I will obey!!!
Will the npcs think they're real people?
What happens when they realise they are stuck in a simualtion and nothing is real?
Free Guy
Lol don’t tell him guys
I started this not knowing it was Bancroft. 😂 Was surprised to hear his Voice
Good vid Mike.
Cheers Chuck. I just saw this and couldn’t get it out of my head.
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Examples????
I'm absolutely thrilled. Definitely the future of gaming. I've been wanting this since I was a child!
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Even at this rudimentary level, it's got me scratching my head, wondering at the possibilities of this.
Don't get TOO excited guys. Remember these AI rely on MASSIVE external servers to run these A.I. and trying to run even a basic one internally requires some of the beefiest PCs out there.
So this is a cool proof of concept but we're still probably a good decade or two off from seeing this outside of MMO's which are already on massive external servers.
Tech barely works and exponentially explored dose this feel like it barely works
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Yeah, that's a very good point, this is a very basic demo. But then I think back about where this AI stuff was even a year ago, it's actually kinda scary how quickly it's progressing.
@@Michael_Bancroft That's how breakthroughs work. Someone figures out a really good way to make something and scale it up and things take off from there.
Now if someone could find a way to reduce the hardware requirements to run this stuff we'd see implementation REALLY take off.
Right now the fact this stuff takes every bit of ahrdware we have is the choke point.
Time will tell if people can figure out a solution or if Ai just fudementally requires too much hardware to use past a certain point.
Still cool to see people try and see what they can do with it regardless.
Nah, I don't need live-service trash to run NPCs. We are good where we are.
I want to use gossip to turn NPC's against eachother.
It's all a joke until Nazeem remembers that time you quicksaved and murdered him
Now if it opens different avenues of completing quests and unique scenes, this would be even better.
But will Nazeem still ask if you've been to the Cloud District during an encounter in the Cloud District?
Roses are red, Violets are blue
Do you get to the Cloud District very often? Oh, what am I saying, of course you don't.
-Nazeem 2023
Interesting and fucking creepy at the same time
Definitely. It could get very spooky and weird.
This is probably the only application I approve of with ai.
“How can that man carry so many cheese wheels?”
Everybody gangsta until the NPC asks what is its purpose
Now I can ask balgruuf if he’s ‘ballin’
Imagine stealing something from a shop and the owner NEVER lets you live it down, even if you are best friends with them, "so, dragonborn, remember that draught of health you owe me?"
It's still in its early stages because NPCs take quite a while to respond, as the AI has to search for a response to what you've said. But it certainly is the future for creating more dynamic worlds that react to what the player says. The downside is that you would need to be always connected to the internet since, obviously, all the information an AI uses to respond is stored on the servers of the respective company, and no PC has enough space to store all the information needed for an AI to function. And even if it did.
Isn’t this how Free Guy started?
I swear, Skyrim is so old but still has some of the most advanced features thanks to the modding community
brooo i’ve been thinking about this so much. a small game just about connecting with a little group of people, each with their own personalities (like that phone game Replika) and would have almost infinite endings. like the mechanic has so much potential
Yeah, this is only the very beginning of what’s possible.
We’re dabbling in dangerous territory. But time will tell if this is another terminator scare.
I saw this mod quite some time ago and it is pretty interesting and a very good technical demo. However, the video was editted to make it more responsive since there was significant lag as per the modder. More recently, a modder used the Matrix UE5 demo to create self-aware NPCs and that was.. an NPCs, when told about themselves, started giving extremely nihilistic responses as they went through the stages of grief as they were forced to path and then despawn.
Then we have the NVIDIA ConvoAI tech demo, so.. yea. LLM-GPT enabled NPCs are coming.
I always hate it when my favorite npc’s are stuck repeating the same line over and over because I exhausted all of their dialogue this is definitely a game changer
I can finally pacify bandits
Game ai that npcs start to become main characters.
This is amazing, and the coolest application I can think of is how much more dynamic the game could become if we can also try to talk to hostiles, which would actually just be bringing back a feature of the older games I think. If the speech skill can be integrated into increasing the chances of talking a bandit down, reasoning with a villain… imagine the possibilities! Imagine ending the Dawnguard expansion with Harkon still alive to repair the damage he’s done to his family (obviously with a VERY HIGH speechcraft skill), forcing Delphine to actually talk to Paarthurnax herself to resolve her issues with him, or just casting a powerful destruction spell up at the sky and asking the bandits surrounding you if they really want to leave their bodies today? We’ve all wondered how so many enemies could just run to their death after seeing a half dozen of their companions fall to us, maybe now they can rethink their position? Could it actually be possible to end the game without killing anyone, if you want? Arrest bounties instead of assassinating them?
Seems very cool. As long as voice actors don't get screwed over in the process.
This is the future I'm waiting for.
Will Nazeem remember how many times I've killed him?
Wait until you get commercials on Facebook from topics in-game 😅 "What, cheese commercial?"
I think it’s the future for all games. Imagine having ai do mk intros in their own words rather than people editing it with the characters voices
This short being read and written by ai is meta asf
lol, I suppose my delivery can be a bit dry 😆
It’s so crazy that when a I was big talk a few years back like four or five years ago I told my friend dude it’s going to be crazy in video games specially, if motors get a hold of this and fast forward now he’s like bro you’re scaring me
I'm curious to know if each NPC has its own AI or of its 1 AI maintaining all the NPCs Chat GPT memories.
This is insane. I play Skyrim vr and I’m not a mod developer but it seems like this could be easily integrated into the dragon born voice mod, or at least it think that’s what it’s called that will allow you to talk to the npc s in real-time with your own freaking voice.
That sounds cringe lol
ChatGPT is just a professional BSer drawing from a large body of content. So unless there is specific training data for each NPC to create/mold individual "backstories" or "personalities", I imagine all the NPCs will kinda sound the same.
I think I need to try this mod after I finish achievement hunting in Skyrim.
Do this for Cyberpunk and I'll say goodbye to real life lol
This is precisely what I want. Let's go already
“Oh, good. You’re finally awake. Or… are you?”
Now thats a great RPG experience
Finally. The future of gaming we have been waiting for. We aren’t in the simulation theory, we are crafting it.
Yes , but what if we already are in the simulation crafting the simulation for the next simulation simulation ?🤔 And that’s the end game ? 👀
@@Flog1077 We watch the world of Skyrim develop to 21st century technology and start to develop it's own A.I inhabited world and we go "Oh shit it's true after all".
Ai is going after far more than just voice actors
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It's kind of head-spinning thinking about where this is leading.
Bruh imagine putting this in Skyrim VR, getting tired after a fight with a dragon and waking up to an NPC calling you a Lazy Bum for laying in the middle of the town
Yes hello I am here for my RPG girlfriend to slay dragons and lvl up my bedroom rope binding skills with!
Nerd
Of course the first thing you thought of was trying to pick one of these things up!
I'll go a step further. In the near term (the next 5-10 years) the cutting edge RPGs will provide a unique game to each player, where no two play throughs will be similar. Quests will organically emerge from the AI NPCs living out their in game lives and not because someone wrote a story line. For example, the baker will ask you to gather ingredients because they are genuinely too busy preparing stock to go themselves. In the more distant future (10-20 years) you will request a game from your AI and it will generate it from scratch.
It'd be funny if the guy had the NPCs randomly (and really rarely) say things like "Please help me. I am trapped in this video game." Pandamonium
All fun and games until one realizes its an NPC and achieves CHIM
I could imagine NPC's with theories saying they're in a simulation while the other NPC's laugh at them.
Now imagine this in VR.......true sword art online shit
It could be a virtual classroom and the teacher is AI
No turning back no matter what anti-AI people say
Big Brother will record every conversation. Scary.
This is the only thing i need for my witcher 3
Video games and VR will be the best use of AI tools.
maybe sao isn't too far off
This is the side of AI I am excited for
Thanks for showing us an example...
Guys this is intriguing and terrifying all at once for me. Thanks for the vid.
As someone who sits deeply in all sorts of chatbots related community I must say this isn't perfect, nor will be soon.
You mentioned that NPC will remember previous dialogue, yes that's true, to some extent. Sometimes AI will glitch, forget crucial details etc.
Either way, few years and I think it will be better, but right now it's just a proof of possibility of something great.
People who unironically believe that an npc could break free and become self aware or whatever clearly don’t understand what ChatGPT even is.
It better not be I don’t want the human factor removed from games
imagine in 10 years from now how advanced this will be
Reminds me that 90s 3D show called ReBoot.
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Me: *downloads the mod to marry Serana*
Also me after realising this AI-ChatGPT mod exists*
*Put Anakin here* "This is where teh fun begins"
It's thrilling and scarry at the same time.
I saw a CZcamsr literally convinced ulfric and his council to exile the jarl of windhelm and the jarl actually left
Honestly I can't wait to get my hands on it, there was somebody who I helped get some armor by paying for it and while he was with me he told an elf to go back to the woods from where he came..
I'm an orc so obviously I wanted to scold him.
I wonder how they will react to cast healing spell on these always wounded people in Whiterun witch is considered as attack