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Caught up by the future

Four years ago I was part of producing one of the biggest larp projects at the time. It was set in future with all the usual sci-fi tropes like spaceships and artificial intelligence.

We are currently planning a rerun for the game for next year. We did a lot of work to produce everything the first time and now we plan to reuse as much of that work as possible without changing anything not worth changing.

One thing that we have been discussing is the use of the actual AI to provide the ingame AI assistant called EVA. Last time EVA was half a dozen real human beings that were answering players questions through the terminal interface. Back then a real AI was just a wild dream and by staging it we were able to offer players something unreal.

This time the situation is different. In theory we could actually implement EVA as a real artificial agent. We have a lot of materials to feed to the model and we also have all the conversation logs from the last games. So it would be really easy to make it good enough, or even better than having all those human assistant trying to dig up the information and provide answers to the players.

But it's supposed to be magical. Something that is not real. So the answers will still be provided by real human beings, acting as a digital entity to keep the magic alive.