Table of Contents
- What is an AI dungeon?
- AI dungeon mechanics
- How to play AI dungeon
- Can AI Dungeon be played in Japanese?
- “AI Dungeon Wiki*” where AI dungeon capture information is posted
- 3 benefits of playing AI-powered games
- Understand how AI works
- It will be an opportunity to learn about the use cases of AI
- A chance to learn more about AI
- How to better understand AI? 3 ways
- Read AI-related books
- Take the AI Qualification Challenge
- Create your own AI
- summary
What is an AI dungeon?
AI Dungeon is a game that uses AI ( artificial intelligence ) technology to guess and generate what content will follow after the text of the story.
The content is that the story is infinitely generated by the player’s choices. In other words, the player can type any text to decide what to do, so it’s basically a game where you can do whatever you want.
The game is basically played in English, but there are some Japanese translations available, so you might want to check them out.
Also, you can type not only words, but also long sentences, so those who are good at English may enjoy it even more.
AI dungeon mechanics
So, what kind of AI technology is used behind the AI dungeon?
The technology used in AI dungeons is natural language processing technology.
Among natural language processing models, a technology called GPT-3 is used. Although somewhat technical, AINOW also publishes an article explaining GPT-3.
GPT-3 is a model of natural processing developed by OpenAI, an American non-profit organization.
It has learned a huge amount of data of about 45TB (terabytes) and has become a huge language model that has learned about 175 billion parameters.
It is possible to predict the word that will come after a certain word, and it is attracting a lot of attention because it can automatically generate sentences.
The performance of the model has improved dramatically with each new version, and its output has gradually approached that of humans, making it even more popular.
In AI dungeons, infinite stories are generated using this technology to correspond to the typed characters.
How to play AI dungeon
Now that you understand the AI dungeon, let’s actually play it.
I will explain how to play.
First, the Home screen appears. If you log in after registering an account, you can continue playing from the continuation of the previous story, but you can play without registering.
Now let’s actually play.
First press “Quick Start”.
Then, “Pick a setting…” will appear. Select the genre of the story you want to make from 1 to 7.
There are seven types: Fantasy, Mystery, Apocalypse, Zombie, Cyberpunk, Custom, and Archive.
When you select each, AI will generate an export that matches the genre. The contents are different every time, so you can enjoy different fun every time.
Custom can be made all by yourself from export. Recommended when you want to write a genre that is not registered, such as a love story.
The archive will advance the story that has been decided to some extent. Therefore, the write is fixed.
When the story begins, enter the sentence while changing three of “Do”, “Say” and “Story”. “Do” is written directly in the hero’s actions, “Say” is the hero’s lines, and “Story” is written directly in the sentence.
Basically, you can proceed with “Do” and “Say”, but if you want to make other characters say lines or specify actions, use “Story”.
In addition, you can go back/forward one action by pressing the arrow mark, and you can directly modify the sentence generated immediately before by pressing the pen mark.
In this way, you will create your own story.
Can AI Dungeon be played in Japanese?
As mentioned above, AI dungeons are “basic to be played in English” and cannot be played in Japanese. It does not support not only Japanese but also any language other than English.
Some people who play games play games to study English, so it might be a good idea to try AI dungeons for the purpose of learning English in a fun way.
Also, since it is not possible to play everything in English, it is recommended that people who want to stop playing AI dungeons play while translating.
As a tool to use for translation, DeepL translation, which also utilizes AI, is particularly recommended.
This is a multilingual translation AI that has been released since 2017 by DeepL, which is based in Cologne, Germany. On March 19, 2020, Japanese and Simplified Chinese were added to the supported languages.
DeepL translation has been highly acclaimed by the media around the world, and it is a hot topic that translations that can express expressions unique to each country are done.
In addition, there are many translation tools, so why not find a translation tool that suits you and have fun challenging the AI dungeon?
“AI Dungeon Wiki*” where AI dungeon capture information is posted
Play the AI dungeon, and the more you get into it, the more you want to capture it.
In such a case, please try using “AI Dungeon Wiki*”.
This is where the strategy information for the AI dungeon is posted.
I am glad that it is easy to understand because it is written in Japanese.
3 benefits of playing AI-powered games
There are three advantages to playing AI-powered games.
- Understand how AI works
- It will be an opportunity to learn about the use cases of AI
- A chance to learn more about AI
I will introduce each of them.
Understand how AI works
The first advantage is that you can understand how AI works.
This is because as you play the game, you will inevitably learn how AI is being used.
For example, in the case of AI dungeons, you can see that AI is used because the story is infinitely generated by the player’s choices, and you will be able to understand the mechanism as you progress through the game.
It will be an opportunity to learn about the use cases of AI
The next advantage is that it will be an opportunity to learn about AI use cases.
Since it is further divided into genres and used in games, it is an opportunity to learn about various use cases.
For example, in the case of AI dungeons, it is natural language processing.
Although they are not yet fully able to understand the context of words like humans do, they are getting closer to human-like contextual understanding year by year. Therefore, it is possible to change the story according to the player’s sentences called AI dungeon.
A chance to learn more about AI
The final merit is that it will be an opportunity to learn more about AI.
This is because it is necessary to understand AI at the very least in order to advance the game.
You will also inevitably come to understand AI.
In the case of AI dungeons, the response changes depending on the player’s sentences, so you can know that there is such an AI.
How to better understand AI? 3 ways
Here are three ways to get a deeper understanding of AI.
- Read AI-related books
- Take the AI Qualification Challenge
- Create your own AI
Read AI-related books
First of all, there is “Read AI-related books”.
In recent years, AI has been used and developed in various situations, so the number of books introducing AI is increasing.
Therefore, it is recommended because it is easy to obtain at nearby bookstores and online, and you can keep it at hand.
In addition, there are merits such as “information is covered”, “content is highly reliable”, and “you can leave notes directly in the book”.
If you don’t know which book is good, why don’t you refer to this?
Take the AI Qualification Challenge
Next is “Try AI qualification”.
Of course, you will be able to understand AI deeply because you will study AI for the qualification. In addition, there are merits such as “to acquire comprehensive knowledge”, “to prove one’s ability”, and “to be able to participate in AI-related communities”.
By acquiring a qualification, it may be easier to get into an environment that is easy to work in, so it may be a good idea to try it.
Create your own AI
Finally, I would like to mention “try to create AI yourself”.
Since we will be on the side of creating AI, of course it is impossible without understanding AI.
It is easy to think that it is difficult, but there are things that can be done easily, so if you continue to improve your level little by little, your understanding will deepen.
No special skills required.
summary
Were you able to understand AI dungeons?
The game develops depending on your own actions, so the more you play, the more interesting it becomes.
It’s only played in English, but you can solve it by using a translation tool, so let’s try it.
In addition, you can deepen your understanding of AI and expand the world other than AI dungeons.
