AI-powered NPCs is like a childhood dream come true. But I agree it would be better for them to use a model running on the user’s system or at the very least host their own.
Pyro@pawb.social 18 hours ago
Honestly, a small llm in these situations would be great idea, but it should be a very small local or hosted by the company itself (with a setting to turn off)
A small AI in games is the stuff I do want. But there is no reason gemni needs to be involved in a game at all
epicshepich@programming.dev 17 hours ago
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yeah, agreed. This is the sort of thing smaLLMs would be fantastic for: humans can’t do it at scale so it’s not taking any jobs, you can run it locally so it won’t cost any extra energy, it’s not making things slop, just give it a back story and let it do its thing.
Asafum@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I thought I was in the minority with this opinion. I hate all the known issues with AI and the ethics in how they train, but I have to say having an AI in a game is really really cool.
There was a time when (I think it was chatgpt) had free API access and this game spacebourne 2 integrated it into your ships computer so you could interact with it. It was very cool, very wrong at times, but still very cool. My favorite interaction was unfortunately a hallucination. I asked it what system I was in and it gave me a name of a system that does exist in the game, it just wasn’t where I was. I asked why my map said I was somewhere else and it says “your map must be incorrect” lol
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Make it a downloadable package that runs a local model and I think I’d be far more fine. Like, I think it’s a tacky gimmick, but at least on device it’s not hurting the environment
MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social 2 hours ago
I’m not too big on these topics and would like to understand. Is a local model less resource intensive?
In my mind, if every gamer runs a model that must be less efficient than a centralised one that has the perfect hardware setup and only lends out the resources needed for each slime or whatever.
I’m thinking that it of course would be better with a dedicated slime model than the entire Gemini monster but why is local better?