A Cutting-Edge Storytelling AI Co-Wrote This Story on Itself

We decided to find out by asking the video game AI Dungeon, fueled by today's most highly advanced content creation platform, to co-write an article about … itself. As you can see from the resulting collaboration below, which includes our interview with the game's creator, the game has quite a lot to say. While the game offers players several traditional genre options--fantasy, sci-fi, cyberpunk, etc.--when starting a new campaign, we chose the "custom" experience and entered the text below to help the game's AI set the stage: You are an Adweek reporter writing about a text adventure role-playing game called AI Dungeon, which is powered by cutting-edge language generation machine learning. The software engine behind the game was recently upgraded to research group OpenAI's latest copy-generating model called GPT-3, trained on upwards of 100 times more data than the previous version, GPT-2. Released last month, the system was fed around a trillion words and cost $12 million to develop. The project has been controversial from day one.