Given how effective things like GPT3 are at staying coherent even though they weren’t taught to be, I could see something that’s GPT3 with a second constraining neural network to keep it focused sounding eerily human.
I don’t think it’s conscious yet, but we are getting nearer to a future where NPC game characters sound completely human. I could absolutely see interactive stories being a future trend where the AI is given a general outline and then crafts the story in real time based on it’s interactions with the user.
While there’s an uncanny spookey sadness about it, such as the man who found his recently passed GF’s ghost driver and spent hours driving with her. They also want to keep all of this a secret because it’s a fix to a problem with a lie. People like to show off and beat other people, but people are a finite resource that don’t always gather in predicted ways.
My gaming addiction is pubg mobile a battle royale game that makes its money exclusively through a cosmetics gambling mechanic that allows whales to show off their wealth or luck to others. There are also bots in the game, but their existence has never been officially acknowledged. They aren’t complex and are easy to spot but the lack of acknowledgement is to keep at least the thin veneer that anyone and everyone could be real. Such a veneer is already accepted by these players as everyone’s character is an adult despite the many children that play (enough so that I sometimes refer to it as hunting children).
I enjoy playing quite a bit I do realize as a non paying player the company sees me solely as a human interaction to keep the whales spending to flaunt their wealth at me but what if they could fake some of those interactions and spread out the humans more so that any whale that wants it could find adoration in any game at any time of the day. Then you wouldn’t even need a bunch of children performing that labor for you!
I am obsessed with DALL-E mini. I haven't played with it myself, but whenever I see those grids pop up on my socials, I'm like "hmmm. would you look at that."