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Artificial Intelligence Meets Virtual Worlds: The Future of Sentience

The Next Big Idea

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The Future of AI and Virtual Worlds

AI is actually creating the virtual worlds. And maybe most of our virtual worlds will be generated by the machines. The beings who in the beings in those worlds will initially be NPCs, which are basically simple algorithms and probably not conscious. As language model technology gets good enough that we actually have AI systems which are intelligent at a human level and conscious and so on, then it's very, very likely that you're going to be interacting with conscious, intelligent NPCs.

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