metermatic26

No, not at all. I was referring to LLM’s as ‘basic’ applications of AI.

And I’m not talking about having ChatGPT write your dialogue, but more subtle applications like having your player enter their own questions or responses, running the input through a language model and then selecting the most appropriate (pre-defined) response.

In other words, creating the illusion of a more authentic interaction even though you are still railroading the player.

I beg to differ. Not every design choice is a creative one. There’s plenty of technical and/or repetitive work even in game development. And AI models are the sort of blunt tools that can help speed up some of the less glamorous work as well as lower the entry bar for people who’s creativity outweighs their technical prowess.

For once this is an AI application I’m actually rooting for.

Imagine scripting, or texture design, or lighting, or terrain mapping made easy by advanced models.

Heck, even something as basic as having NPC dialogue being powered by an LLM would be awesome.