The development of ChatGPT has allowed many of its users to learn to better perform different activities related to their hobbies and their jobs. From learning to program and perform complex calculations if the indications are given well, helping with the search for information on very specific topics, to providing recommendations to improve drawing or writing. Now, it seems that this tool will be able to help its users to improve their social interactions.
This has been demonstrated Goal boya Unity virtual reality freelancer and gamer interested, who has been experimenting with the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence when combined with VR, and in this way, made great progress by creating a party simulator, which is connected to different AI tools so that, in addition to simulating a party scenario, it allows interaction with the NPCs that are scattered around the placeand chat with them in real time, which would serve to train users’ social skills in a safe space.
To ensure that the NPCs inside this simulator can interact in real time with the person wearing the VR glasses, Knabe used three different programs that are powered by AI: for the ‘brains’ of the NPCs present in the virtual party, he used ChatGPT-3.5Turbofor the dialogues, he used another tool OpenAI, Whisper, which is capable of processing spoken sentences and converting them to text; Finally, the other tool to use is ElevenLabswhich would convert textual responses from ChatGPT to text, which would create, in a nutshell, even NPCs capable of listening, processing, and responding with some degree of coherence.
Twitter users who have already seen this party simulator work have reacted positively, as it could greatly help people who suffer from problems when it comes to creating social relationships, and some have said that they are interested as candidates for possible testing phases. For his part, Knabe claims that the experiment is still in development, but has already proven to be functional. Also, it’s not the first time he’s tried something like this: his YouTube channel has videos of previous experiments, such as conversations with the AI pretending to be a therapist or a medieval innkeeper, proving that the opportunities are limitless.
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