{"id":168919,"date":"2023-08-02T14:34:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/inworld-a-generative-ai-platform-for-creating-npcs-lands-fresh-investment"},"modified":"2023-08-02T14:34:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:34:15","slug":"inworld-a-generative-ai-platform-for-creating-npcs-lands-fresh-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/inworld-a-generative-ai-platform-for-creating-npcs-lands-fresh-investment","title":{"rendered":"Inworld, a generative AI platform for creating NPCs, lands fresh investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inworld-a-generative-ai-platform-for-creating-npcs-lands-fresh-investment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a recovering gamer like me, one of the most exciting applications of generative AI is dynamic dialogue. I\u2019m not suggesting AI replace writers \u2014 goodness forbid. But as anyone who\u2019s sunk hundreds of hours into an RPG can tell you, scripted NPC interactions get old fast.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few startups prototyping AI tech to dynamically generate dialogue. But one of the more promising is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inworld.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inworld<\/a>, launched in 2021 by the founding team of API.AI, which developed tools for speech recognition and natural language understanding until its acquisition by Google in 2016. (API.AI later became Dialogflow, Google\u2019s flagship conversational AI design platform.) <\/p>\n<p>Inworld claims to use \u201cmultiple\u201d machine learning models to \u201cmimic the full range of human communication.\u201d That\u2019s promising a lot in the context of games, but the startup makes the case that, by allowing developers to link its dialog-and voice-generating tools to animation and rigging systems within popular game engines, including 3D environments, it can help deliver more lifelike and immersive gaming experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a recovering gamer like me, one of the most exciting applications of generative AI is dynamic dialogue. I\u2019m not suggesting AI replace writers \u2014 goodness forbid. But as anyone who\u2019s sunk hundreds of hours into an RPG can tell you, scripted NPC interactions get old fast. There are a few startups prototyping AI tech [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}