With this mod, NPCs can roleplay, and older conversations are not forgotten.

Especially for an RPG, it’s worth imagining what it would be like to be able to ask an NPC more than just the questions at your disposal. What would it be like to be able to talk to them continuously? That’s the question being explored by a modder called Art From The Machine, who has plugged OpenAI’s rapidly expanding ChatGPT artificial intelligence technology into Skyrim VR, the god knows how manieth port of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Although the mod is still in development (so it’s not publicly available), it uses OpenAI’s LLM (large language model) to allow NPCs to respond and, with xVASynth, for characters to speak. Thanks to Whisper, the mod generates text from the speech so that NPCs can understand what we say to them in our microphone. The video has several locations and characters, so it’s an exciting taste of what the games industry could be heading towards.

“I have a basic memory system set up where I ask ChatGPT to summarize the conversation on exit to help condense it down for future prompts. There are much more sophisticated tools out there to handle memory. However, such as Langchain, which I hope to implement in the future,” Art From The Machine writes on Reddit. It sounds good, but one could legitimately ask: why isn’t the mod available yet?

According to the modder, they would add more features to the game, and to iron out bugs, they want to test it before releasing it to the public. We have already seen AI in a mod in another game: Mount & Blade: Bannerlord uses AI to answer questions we ask the game’s characters.

We can certainly include this mod among the good uses of AI. It gives us a unique experience.

Source: PCGamer