WIRED: They Plugged GPT-4 Into Minecraft—and Unearthed New Potential for AI

Posted on June 7, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

WIRED: They Plugged GPT-4 Into Minecraft—and Unearthed New Potential for AI. “The Nvidia team, which included Anima Anandkumar, the company’s director of machine learning and a professor at Caltech, created a Minecraft bot called Voyager that uses GPT-4 to solve problems inside the game. The language model generates objectives that help the agent explore the game, and code that improves the bot’s skill at the game over time.”

Game World Observer: Over 90 audio cassettes from 1999 Game Developers Conference now digitized and available for free

Posted on May 24, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Game World Observer: Over 90 audio cassettes from 1999 Game Developers Conference now digitized and available for free. “Preserving educational and professional content is hard work that shouldn’t be taken for granted. Here is a huge collection of recorded gamedev-related talks from the 1999 GDC that have been digitized and archived online.”

Keen Gamer: The Art Of Abandonware Preservation

Posted on May 23, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Keen Gamer: The Art Of Abandonware Preservation. “Despite video gaming’s relative youth compared to other media, many games have already been lost to time. Around the world, archivists have been striving to record and preserve such abandonware and return it to the players. We spoke with some of the people involved to find out just what it takes to save a lost game and why such archives are so important.”

New York Times: Extremism Finds Fertile Ground in Chat Rooms for Gamers

Posted on May 18, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

New York Times: Extremism Finds Fertile Ground in Chat Rooms for Gamers. “A report, released on Thursday by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, underscored how deeply rooted misogyny, racism and other extreme ideologies have become in some video game chat rooms, and offered insight into why people playing video games or socializing online seem to be particularly susceptible to such viewpoints.”

Game World Observer: This free database of indie game publishers contains over 100 companies filtered by budget and more

Posted on May 18, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Game World Observer: This free database of indie game publishers contains over 100 companies filtered by budget and more. “Unifiq Games founder Seyed Nasrollahi has created a free database of active indie publishers and investors. This spreadsheet should help game developers find companies they could pitch their projects to.”

Tech Transparency Project: YouTube Leads Young Gamers to Videos of Guns, School Shootings

Posted on May 17, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Tech Transparency Project: YouTube Leads Young Gamers to Videos of Guns, School Shootings. “YouTube’s algorithms are pushing boys interested in video games to scenes of school shootings, instructions on how to use and modify weapons, and even a movie about notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, according to a study by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP).”

Cornell Chronicle: Tetris reveals how people respond to an unfair AI

Posted on May 16, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Cornell Chronicle: Tetris reveals how people respond to an unfair AI. “An experiment in which two people play a modified version of Tetris – the 40-year-old block-stacking video game – revealed that players who get fewer turns perceive the other player as less likable, regardless of whether a person or an algorithm allocates the turns.”

Carnegie Mellon: Good Design is the Magic Behind AI Game

Posted on May 11, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Carnegie Mellon: Good Design is the Magic Behind AI Game. “… a team of Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) students, have created a role-playing video game, Hysteria in Howlsbend, set in a fictional colonial town. The player takes the role of the deputy governor of Massachusetts and must interview three townsfolk to determine which of them is the witch who killed the local reverend. Even Charles Agriogianis, a game designer on the project, doesn’t know what the townsfolk will say. They are voiced, in part, by AI.”

University of Waterloo: Researchers explore why some people get motion sick playing VR games while others don’t

Posted on May 3, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

University of Waterloo: Researchers explore why some people get motion sick playing VR games while others don’t. “Cybersickness is a form of motion sickness that occurs from exposure to immersive VR and augmented reality applications. A new study, led by researchers at the University of Waterloo, found that the subjective visual vertical – a measure of how individuals perceive the orientation of vertical lines – shifted considerably after participants played a high-intensity VR game.”

Slashgear: This Skyrim Mod Uses ChatGPT To Create Realistic Conversations With NPCs

Posted on May 3, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Slashgear: This Skyrim Mod Uses ChatGPT To Create Realistic Conversations With NPCs . “The as-of-yet unfinished mod uses ChatGPT to come up with the responses to the player character’s prompts, but also xVASynth to synthesize the voice. In theory, this will allow players to have somewhat natural-sounding conversations with NPCs aside from having to pick from the same few dialog choices.”

Steam Deck Controls a Real Ukrainian Army Machine Gun Turret: Report (Tom’s Hardware)

Posted on April 30, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Tom’s Hardware: Steam Deck Controls a Real Ukrainian Army Machine Gun Turret: Report. “Valve’s Steam Deck is making headlines in Ukraine as the a new tool for the Ukrainian army. To clarify: a recent posting demonstrated a remote-controlled machine gun turret that seems to be powered (or at least controlled by) the popular portable PC gaming handheld device.”

Ars Technica: Surprising things happen when you put 25 AI agents together in an RPG town

Posted on April 13, 2023 by ResearchBuzz

Ars Technica: Surprising things happen when you put 25 AI agents together in an RPG town. “A group of researchers at Stanford University and Google have created a miniature RPG-style virtual world similar to The Sims, where 25 characters, controlled by ChatGPT and custom code, live out their lives independently with a high degree of realistic behavior. They wrote about their experiment in a preprint academic paper released on Friday.”

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