Virtual Beings Summit features how AI simulations will change entertainment (June 7 in SF)
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The fifth annual Virtual Beings Summit: Simulations is taking place on June 7 in San Francisco, and the event will center on the big trend around AI simulations, where smart AI characters populate virtual worlds.
These characters can live their lives and continue to thrive in these virtual worlds even if they aren’t controlled by humans, said Edward Saatchi, CEO of Fable Studio, in an interview with GamesBeat. Saatchi is front and center of this trend as the curator of the Virtual Beings Summit.
“The thesis this year is that single agent chatbots have reached their peak,” Saatchi said. “They’re commoditized and there are hundreds of them. And it’s just ultimately boring. Talking to these AI, they pop into existence when you talk to them. they have no real life. And so they can’t empathize with you. They can’t tell you what’s going on in their life and their day, because they don’t exist. And so I’ve gathered together people that I think the most interesting around simulations talk about this.”
For the chatbots, Saatchi believed that the virtual beings created to talk with us deserved to have real lives.
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“That’s different from just a backstory, where you write up their world in like a page of text, and then that’s who they are,” Saatchi said. “They actually need to have existed in virtual life, to exist in space and time, and they need to exist in context of a society like families. And they need to be given the respect to actually
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