Riskgaming The Orthogonal Bet: Building a Fractal Combinatorial Trope Machine
Aug 2, 2024
Hilary Mason, co-founder and CEO of Hidden Door, shares her extensive expertise in interactive storytelling and machine learning. She discusses the innovation behind merging technology and narrative, emphasizing the importance of player choice and AI's thoughtful integration into gaming experiences. Hilary also explores the creation of a storytelling engine that marries human creativity with AI support. Lastly, she reflects on the challenges and opportunities startups face compared to corporations in harnessing AI technology, advocating for a more deliberate approach to development.
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Fractal Tropes Power Immersion
- Hidden Door encodes story tropes manually to build immersive story experiences, like a fractal combinatorial trope machine.
- This system sets meaningful narrative constraints and incorporates player creativity within the fictional world's rules.
Encode Tropes Explicitly
- Large language models have implicit narrative tropes but lack consistency needed for storytelling.
- Explicitly encoding tropes enhances creative control and assures meaningful, coherent stories.
Build AI Thoughtfully
- Build AI products thoughtfully, considering their specific strengths and limitations.
- Avoid rushing deployments that ignore known challenges like hallucinations and poor user experiences.