When an AI becomes… a video game tester

What if an artificial intelligence became a video game tester? This is the experience tried by Alex Walker, journalist at Kotaku Australia. To do this, our colleague used a GPT-2 type text generator from Open AI. It is less sophisticated than GPT-3 but it has the advantage of being offered free online, in particular via platforms such as Shortly.

“AI cannot rate a video game”

To carry out his experiment, the author fed the AI ​​different pieces of already written game reviews. Some formulations are mechanical, while others refer to a particular passage. Titles like Cyberpunk 2077, Returnal, The Good Life, Sable, Metroid Dread, or even Red Dead Redemption 2 have been tested.

In the end, Kotaku draws a clear-cut conclusion: “AI cannot rate a video game. Items where machine learning was asked to rely on experience and emotion turned out to be better than expected, but on each occasion the model could be seen to have taken the “fake” approach. it till you make it”. It introduced wrong details, sometimes even completely different project names and developers. »

Alex Walker, however, says he is impressed with how the AI ​​has progressed. He would not be surprised to see some media or news organizations using GPT-3 to process certain information such as press releases "simply because the volume of content online exceeds the number of people available to write it ( but not the potential readership). That said, the time when AIs will be able to bring "a human touch" to reviews has not yet arrived.

As a reminder, other journalistic experiments have been carried out using a text generator. Thus, The Guardian has decided to entrust the writing of one of its editorials to the artificial intelligence of Open AI. This language generator had a simple mission: to demonstrate that humans had absolutely nothing to fear from robots.

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