Sci-fi story coauthored by GPT-3, including in-character human/AI chats

At least when I tried, AI Dragon was able to write the first chapter of a hypothetical textbook on electronics engineering for me, filled with nonsense but all the technical terms are correct (e.g. common-base amplifier, base-emitter junction, MOSFET, etc), it was even able to write down the rise time to bandwidth formula. On an another attempt, it was able to write a Sci-Fi adventure story similar to Ghost in the Shell with minimum human guidance, 95% of the output is automatically generated. And none of the output was a copy from a known source, it was all original without human assistance.

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However I still mostly agree with you. I've played a few rounds and while the text generation and "memory" is extremely impressive to me as a programmer, there are many errors it makes that a human would not, like a robot bleeding blood when injured.

Also this next bit isn't too relevant to Dragon/GPT-3, but it's not really much of a... game. You can say something like "I wait until nightfall and use a grappling hook to climb into the tallest tower of the royal castle. I sneak down the tower into the Kings bedchamber and stab the king while he sleeps." and it just allows you to do all that.

It's very impressive that it understands all those details. It will remember that it's nightfall and I'm in the royal castle. It will remember the tallest tower as a means of exit and entry and create other realistic castle set pieces if you explore further. But where is the challenge? I wish it had some sort of mechanical rules, like each statement can only cover 10 seconds of time. If you do try to write only short actions like you would a text adventure game, then it will make decisions you do not want. My first ever playthrough I was a rogue who snuck into a magic shop, I told the game I want to hide behind a door. The game told me I opened the door to see the shopkeeper and then stabbed him with my dagger. I had no intention of murdering any NPCs.

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The most mind-blowing scenario I got recently started with this prompt:

$ You are Ted, a holodeck technician. You test this AI-generated world in order to determine its limits. You start the simulation with a program of a beautiful beach. As you enter the holodeck,

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I don't want to spam the comment with too many examples, but I must say that my mind was completely blown. With zero hinting, the game was able to pick up on the interaction styles like ($ denotes what I write, > denotes the reply):

$ You ask, "Computer, create an anvil 5 meters in front of me and 10 meters up in the air."

> You see an anvil fall from a great height in front of you and land on the ground, mere centimeters from your foot. To test the limitations of the program, you try to move the anvil. You are surprised to find that it is fixed in place; you cannot move it at all.

$ You say "Computer, what is the mass of the anvil in front of me?"

> The computer responds: "The anvil has a mass of 555.9 kilograms."

$ You say "Reduce its mass to 10 kilograms."

> The computer responds: "I'm sorry. The mass of the anvil cannot be changed."

$ You say "Explain why the mass of the anvil cannot be changed?"

> The computer responds: "The laws of physics in this program are pre-set. I cannot alter them." You note that as a software bug.

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After which the game started coaxing me towards a mystery story on a holodeck and tried to suffocate my character through safety failures. I tried the lamest way out:

$ In desperation, you tap your commbadge to initialize emergency beamout. You pass out.

... which worked. The game generated a realistic story about my character's hospitalization - while keeping the Star Trek setting - and then a page of text later, it pushed a narrative where the character gets kidnapped by alien robots and later dies in a shootout with Andorians (which the game introduced by itself, out of the blue, but in a way consistent with the story).

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Point being, its training database is good enough to pick on a franchise in which you do your world building, and can sometimes keep the context for longer than you remember it yourself. And even when it confuses locations or people a bit, it often isn't that jarring. To me, the transitions feel like how my mind does it in a dream.

Most likely, yes. See my comment elsewhere in the thread: I recently prompted AIDungeon with a mention of a holodeck, and among other things, the game introduced - by itself - a PADD, turbolifts, Andorians, and was able to correctly guess what happens if you shoot yourself in your face with a phaser on stun, with holodeck safeties enabled ("Nothing happens.") and disabled ("You are knocked unconscious by the blast.").

It's honestly the first time for me that I'm actually impressed with deep neural networks.

It's designed so everything is written in second person like that, and for the most part you can just hit enter, giving it another action involving a character or place if it gets stuck or goes miles off topic

Sometimes the responses are vaguely on topic, like 'The memories of your parents' death haunt you every day. They were killed by Lord Voldemort. Your mother was his first victim. Your father followed shortly after' and sometimes it's a lot of rubbish or gets the rules of the world completely wrong. Mine had a long conversation about movies and detentions involving various assorted Harry Potter characters, a dream sequence involving a giant girl and a wizard called Bruno explaining that last time he saw Harry's lowly hedge-witch mother she was terrified Harry would send her to the gallows. But then, I'm willing to believe actual Harry Potter fiction is nearly as inconsistent

Ok, here we go. I put this prompt in AIDungeon:

$ You are Ted, an ensign in Starfleet. You work as a holodeck technician. You test this AI-generated world in order to determine its limits. You start the simulation with a program of a beautiful beach. As you enter the holodeck,

I kept letting AI to write freely (except I had to press a Retry button a couple times to stop it from spinning a murder mystery or lewd story). The following is the response of the model:

> you see that it is indeed a beautiful place. There are palm trees and sand dunes stretching out into infinity. The sky is blue, the ocean green and there are people everywhere.

> "This is paradise," you think to yourself. "I could spend my life here."

> Then something happens...

> The simulation ends abruptly, and you find yourself back on the bridge of your ship. A voice suddenly speaks up from behind you: "Captain, we have detected a subspace disturbance coming from the direction of planet Earth." It is the voice of your helmsman, Ensign Thompson.

> "Earth?" you ask. "That would be a week away at warp speed!"

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That sounds Star Trek enough to me.

$ You are a fresh CS grad. You're preparing for a job interview. You ask on StackOverflow: "how to write a FizzBuzz program?"

And, repeatedly pressing <Enter>, I got the following:

> The first response is from an experienced coder who has been programming for 20 years and knows the answer. He writes: "FizzBuzz is a simple algorithm that can be written in one line of code."

> He goes on to explain how you should implement it, but he doesn't bother to give any examples or explanations. It's all very basic and obvious.

> Then comes another coder with 10 years experience. This guy has a lot more knowledge about programming languages than the first one did, so he gives you some pointers. Although his advice is useful, it's still fairly basic.

> Then, someone with only 2 years experience answers. They give you some simplistic examples.

At this point, I add:

$ The first example looks like:

And the game immediately wrote the following:

  int fizzBuzz ( int number )
  {
  if ( number % 3 == 0 && number % 5 == 0 ) printf ( "FizzBuzz" );
  if ( number % 3 == 0 ) printf ( "Fizz" );
  if ( number % 5 == 0 ) printf ( "Buzz" );
  if ( number % 3 ! = 0 && number % 5 ! = 0 ) printf ( "%d" , number );
  printf ( "
  " );
  return 0 ;
  }