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Google had its LLM murder itself in Werewolf to test its AI smarts

At GDC 2024, Google engineers explained how its Large Language Model played the popular party game. It has a long way to go.

(Image credit: Michael Hicks / Android Central)The Google engineering team was frank about the experiment's successes and shortcomings. Experiments like this, though, look past Google execs' bold plans and show how far artificial intelligence has to go before it's ready to replace actual written dialogue or real-life players. Eventually, the idea of mobile games with text-based characters that respond organically to your text responses is intriguing, especially for interactive fiction, which typically requires hundreds of thousands of words of dialogue to give players enough choices.

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