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You MUST play AI Dungeon 2, a text adventure game run by a neural net.
@nickwalton00 built it using @OpenAI's huge GPT-2-1.5B model, and it will respond reasonably to just about anything you try. Such as eating the moon.
aiweirdness.com/post/189511103… > Whistle for one of the dragons to come back   You whistle
@nickwalton00 @OpenAI Since all the responses are generated on the fly by a neural net, your problem solving options aren't limited to what the game's programmers could imagine.

"Asking nicely" works pleasingly often. As you walk through the ruins, you find a small wooden door
@nickwalton00 @OpenAI And rather than fighting a band of orcs, you can join them. As drummer.
@nickwalton00 @OpenAI Because AI Dungeon 2 is based on GPT-2-1.4B, which trained on a huge chunk of the internet, you can do some pretty audacious crossovers into content that the neural net never saw in an adventure game

This is me joining the @BritishBakeOff. As a dragon.  >Join the Great British Bakeoff   You join the Great Britis
@nickwalton00 @OpenAI @BritishBakeOff In another AI Dungeon 2 game, I joined the @BritishBakeOff along with some giraffes I'd summoned earlier.

The neural net does a very creditable attempt of rolling with it, considering none of the dungeon crawling games it was trained on had included this particular scenario  >Watch the giraffes finish their pies. Learn their techniqu
@nickwalton00 @OpenAI @BritishBakeOff If your problem-solving options in AI Dungeon 2 are unique and unexpected, so are your predicaments.

@nickwalton00 @OpenAI @BritishBakeOff In AI Dungeon 2, a pretty effective strategy is to essentially Jedi mind trick the AI.

Present it with a reality that seems plausible to it, and it'll often work. I once got rid of a marauding ogre by reminding it that it was going to be leaving for Antarctica tomorrow. A large black shadow looms over you. It looks like a giant w
The AI apparently really likes it when you ask nicely. “Sure, whatever you like, just happy there are politeness formulas to rely upon!”
By typing your own story intro, you can be anything - Jedi, starship captain, hogwarts student, unicorn, glowing cloud - but the neural net in AI Dungeon 2 is more used to humanoid characters so it forgot I was a goose and things got awkward   > Flap wings and honk   You flap your wings and begin to h
In the AI Dungeon 2 universe, consuming media is an effective time travel technique
Novelist @robinsloan plays AI Dungeon 2 & implements a quietly badass problem solving strategy: wait a thousand years
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