🤖 AI Will Make Video Games Better

PLUS: Gary Gensler Gives His AI Take

What's up? You're reading Inclined AI. “Winning Time” is back on HBO, so there goes my weekend plans!

Here's the magic:

  • AI will change how we talk to NPCs

  • Gary Gensler gives his own AI opinion

  • Bing Chat is going mobile

  • Criminals are cloning ChatGPT

Sure, AI will make NPCs more human, but at what cost?

A recent WIRED article shattered my framework of what AI will do for creative industries in the coming years. In the piece, a 3D designer for video games watches her job go from fulfillment to empty boredom.

Designing the people and world for a video game takes a long time. Most character concepts take weeks to map out, but with AI, it now takes a few hours.

That’s good, right?

Well, it depends. On the one hand, it accelerates the timeline and means we can make video games faster and cheaper. On the other hand, it’s cheaper because you don’t need to pay as many people.

You can see where this is going.

a robot interviews for a job at a video game company --ar 2:1 --s 600 --w 600 --chaos 75 --v 5.1

This conundrum makes the excitement over LLMs handling NPCs feel premature. Considering the monumental number of jobs it will displace, it feels like a hollow achievement.

AI gives us freedom, but we didn’t give people a handbook on handling that.

I want to root for AI advancement, and I am sure you do, too. But we need the decision-makers to recognize this moment and prepare for it.

Some suggest Universal Basic Income as a solution or subsidized training for new job opportunities. Those are solid ideas, but we need action.

Private companies move fast, and they break things along the way. It’s a capitalistic truth.

When the shattered object lying in the wake is people’s livelihood, we must reconcile that fact.

So, I’ll take the cool non-playable character that acts human, but I want it to come from actual people who contributed to making it all possible, please.

Creating your own AI app is now easier than ever before, and you don't need to be a programmer to do it!

I recently used a no-code tool to create my own AI app in under an hour. I made a "Twitter/X Bio Generator" app that asks three simple questions and generates five high-quality bios.

You can see how it works by watching the video.

Here's how you can create your own app:

Step 1: Set up an account

You can do this by going to the website https://youai.ai/mindstudio and clicking on "new AI" to create a new app.

Step 2: Create a prompt for your AI.

In my example, I described what my app does and defined the format of the bios. I also gave some examples to train the AI.

Step 3: Configure the inputs.

This means defining what the user inputs when using the app. In my case, I defined three user inputs and used them to create the bios.

Step 4: Publish your app.

You can choose to make it free or turn on monetization (coming soon). Then, select the underlying model (GPT or Claude) and publish your app. It will be available in the YouAI library.

I was amazed at how easy it was to create my own AI app. It felt like programming but in natural language.

The bios generated by the app are really good, too.

I bet you didn’t know this about Gary Gensler, the chairperson of the SEC.

It turns out he wrote a paper in 2020 about the impact of AI on financial institutions and markets. That factoid is why I’m taking his latest warning about AI with a straight face.

Gensler is concerned that model concentration could stir markets.

Google, Meta, and OpenAI appear like the top three LLM developers right now based on usage, wouldn’t you agree? If Gensler is right, someone like those three will win the market, and two or three LLMs will dominate. 

That affects our flow of information. We constrict the possibility of novel insights if we all rely on ChatGPT and Bard for info.

Moreover, investors get pulled into a collective dogma. 

Saturation is bad for markets, and we’ve seen what a bunch of AI moving all at once can do for stock prices. Flash dips happen, and we can see those increase and deepen.

So keep an eye on where you get information and ensure you don’t treat one model’s output as gospel, okay?

📌 Stack Overflow is the guide to how LLMs can disrupt information providers and how they might survive that struggle

✨ Bing Chat is making its way into mobile browsers to pump usage

🐑 Cloning ChatGPT is a new criminal undertaking that’s gaining steam

📈 Learn to fine-tune your AI to handle financial insight

🏗️ Architects are the latest workers that worry AI is too good to compete with

Look towards history to decide if AI will be a help to the economy

💩 Content farms are getting worst now that they all use AI

🤦 Police facial recognition use is leading to a spur in false arrests and problematic altercations

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Sad Darth Vader Birthday

For some reason, this looks a little too close to how my 8th birthday went when I tried to invite kids to a bowling alley. I feel you, Darth.

- That’s it for today. I hope you enjoyed the latest edition of inclined.ai - Davis.