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The Direct from Imagination Era Has Begun

When I was a kid, I wanted to build a holodeck — the immersive 3D simulation system from Star Trek, so I started making games, beginning with online multiplayer games for bulletin board systems. Eventually, I even got to make a massively multiplayer mobile game based on Star Trek that…

Artificial Intelligence

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The Direct from Imagination Era Has Begun
The Direct from Imagination Era Has Begun
Artificial Intelligence

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Five Levels of Generative AI for Games

With recent advances in generative AI, there has been a lot of discussion about how it will be used in games, virtual worlds and the metaverse. …

Game Development

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Five Levels of Generative AI for Games
Five Levels of Generative AI for Games
Game Development

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Market Map: Generative AI for Virtual Worlds

Someday soon, we’ll speak entire universes into existence. This article is a guide to the companies building the generative artificial intelligence technology that will lead to these virtual worlds (games, simulations, metaverse applications). Existing market maps describing the landscape for generative AI lack a convincing organization, instead seeming to be…

Metaverse

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Market Map: Generative AI for Virtual Worlds
Market Map: Generative AI for Virtual Worlds
Metaverse

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9 Megatrends Shaping the Metaverse

In this article, I identify 9 megatrends — exponential shifts that are already underway on a global scale — and how they will shape the future of the metaverse. Most of the megatrends are a blend of both technology and social change. Here are the megatrends I’ll discuss: By looking…

Metaverse

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9 Megatrends Shaping the Metaverse
9 Megatrends Shaping the Metaverse
Metaverse

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The Metaverse Value-Chain

Trillions of dollars: that’s how much private industry is investing into the metaverse. In this article, I provide a description of the value chain of this market, from the experiences that people seek out to the enabling technologies that make it possible. More importantly, I also provide a prescription —…

Metaverse

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The Metaverse Value-Chain
The Metaverse Value-Chain
Metaverse

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Published in Building the Metaverse

·Dec 19, 2022

The Work of Art in the Age of Generative AI

We are on the threshold of the most important change in productivity since harnessing fire allowed our hominid ancestors to eat better, spend a lot less time chewing, and gather enough nutrients to evolve bigger brains. Now, artificial intelligence is augmenting the power of our brains, and it seems that…

AI

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The Work of Art in the Age of Generative AI
The Work of Art in the Age of Generative AI
AI

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Published in Building the Metaverse

·Dec 4, 2022

Creating a Text Adventure Game with ChatGPT

ChatGPT is not simply a chatbot — it can imagine entire virtual worlds using the power of its large language model (LLM). Using it, I discovered that I could recreate the experience of early text adventure games and multiuser dungeons. One of the classic genres of computer gaming is the…

Games

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Creating a Text Adventure Game with ChatG
Creating a Text Adventure Game with ChatG
Games

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Published in Building the Metaverse

·Dec 3, 2022

The AI Takeover: Human-Machine Storytelling

A collaboration between a human, GPT-3 and Midjourney — an experiment in computational creativity, nonlinear narrative and generative art A Program to Take Over the World It all began when with an experiment to get GPTchat to respond in ways that it was often hesitant to. I had heard someone had gotten it to print the current…

Gpt 3

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The AI Takeover: Human-Machine Storytelling
The AI Takeover: Human-Machine Storytelling
Gpt 3

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Published in Building the Metaverse

·May 9, 2022

Computational Creativity

Within a decade, an independent developer, working alone, will create a game with the size, scope and artistry of Elden Ring. And then a millions of other people will do the same thing. How is it possible that a single person will do the work of a team that cost…

Game Development

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Computational Creativity
Computational Creativity
Game Development

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Published in Building the Metaverse

·Apr 12, 2022

Composability is the Most Powerful Creative Force in the Universe

Compose, component, combine, compound, composability — all of these words stem from the same common Latin root, com, meaning together. What we can accomplish together is more powerful than any one of us can do alone. That is the subject of this article: composability in the metaverse. …

Metaverse

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Composability is the Most Powerful Creative Force in the Universe
Composability is the Most Powerful Creative Force in the Universe
Metaverse

17 min read

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Jon Radoff

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