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“WHAT DO YOU WANT?”

An image showing an NPC from the VR game creation sandbox Modbox. In the corner is a developer wearing VR goggles. Text at the bottom of the screen reads, “Said: Where do you work?"

This is the future.

Here’s a video demonstrating all these things together. The embed below should start at 4 minutes and 27 seconds, which is when Vermeulen starts the test, but it’s worth going back to the beginning to get a better sense of how it’s set up, too.

Modbox OpenAI-GPT3 / Replica AI ScriptingWatch on YouTube

Modbox OpenAI-GPT3 / Replica AI Scripting

Cover image for YouTube video

There are, of course, all kinds of limitations, but I can picture a day not far off when the NPCs will yell “We know you’re in there, Fisher!”, and I’ll be able to yell back, “No I’m not, actually!”.

Modbox is inearly access on Steam and will cost you £11/$15/€15. The indev version contains Replica integration and the text-to-speech functionality, but not any of the OpenAI GPT-3 stuff you see in the video above, as its inclusion is dependent on permission from OpenAI.