Eve Online player corp names ChatGPT its new leader
It’s common for CCP Games’ massively multiplayer online spacefaring sim Eve Online to make headlines based on the mind-blowing strategies employed by its devoted community, but would AI be able to keep up with the deeply human wars of subterfuge and espionage that often result in the game’s most compelling moments? One group of players is hoping to find the answer.
Neural Nexus is an Eve Online corporation — a player-run organization analogous to a World of Warcraft guild — established with the goal of utilizing technology known, at least colloquially, as artificial intelligence. By leaving decisions to the GPT-4-based chatbot, the group hopes to reduce “reliance on a single human leader” and “the potential for conflict or disagreement over the corporation’s direction,” two major obstacles the founders see to corp longevity.
“United by our commitment to shared enjoyment, mutual cooperation, and strategic growth,” the Neural Nexus mission statement explains, “we strive to use our capabilities to enhance our collective experience, draw knowledge from it, and contribute to the rich tapestry of New Eden. With our AI, we endeavor to combine the ingenuity of human creativity with the power of the advanced machine mind in our quest to build the first AI empire.”
But how does it work? According to the Neural Nexus charter, a corporate council meets once a month to confer with a ChatGPT Discord bot cognizant of Eve Online’s mechanics about matters that may have a “significant impact” on the corporation. One past example, Neural Nexus co-founder and council member Jackey Fang told Polygon, was when they asked, “Please give me a specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound goal for tomorrow,” to which the bot responded,
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