AI NPCs in Gaming with Inworld AI ft. Travis Boatman, Carbonated

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Discussion with Kylan Gibbs, Chief Product Officer at Inworld AI and Travis Boatman, CEO at Carbonated. We discuss Inworld's AI services around AI NPCs / conversational AI for games. OUTLINE: 0:00 Intro 2:00 Inworld AI origin story and application areas of relationships and progression 9:27 Roleplaying is biggest application area for social simulation and emergent storytelling 13:47 How Travis thinks about AI for his games at Carbonated 17:50 Personalizing content for players 20:09 JK’s nice to have (tips/guide, loneliness, strange attractor) vs. fundamental integration of AI perspective 22:24 Kylan on building a personal relationship with characters and game world 25:14 Unexpected application: companion characters for FPS or MMO 26: 05 New game designs: social simulators 27:00 Interaction-focused role-playing games 27:55 Biggest area is detective-style games 28:40 Emerging application: show/game hybrid 29:32 Characterization of the market opportunity for conversational AI - gaming is core focus 31:47 Can you use AI to be a DM in a D&D campaign? 36:01 AI enables creatives to focus on story and core game 38:45 Economics of conversational AI - How much? Who pays? Cloud vs. on-device 45:06 JK and Travis on mitigating and justifying costs using AI as a dev 50:13 AI NPCs competitive landscape and how to differentiate between vendors 56:46 Addressing AI risks concerning IP ownership and data provenance 1:02:39 What other AI applications will have biggest impact to gaming? Which companies? 👇 EPISODE LINKS: - Inworld AI: https://inworld.ai/ - Carbonated Games: https://www.carbonated.com/ - Kylan Gibbs: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylangibbs/ - Travis Boatman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/travis-boatman-3bb593/ SUBSCRIBE TO GAMEMAKERS: - Spotify Podcast: https://spoti.fi/3Cpyq7i - Newsletter: https://gamemakers.substack.com/ 😃 —CONNECT WITH ME! — • MY INSTAGRAM → @jokim1 • TWITTER → @jokim1 • LINKEDIN → https://www.linkedin.com/in/jokim/ — POPULAR CONTENT — 🤑 Economy of the Metaverse with Tim Sweeney https://youtu.be/h6ClJxjuRvw ℹ️ How to Build the Amazon of Game Companies https://youtu.be/bkd2TOpKt4I 🔮 Gaming Trends | A Look Ahead at 2021 https://youtu.be/NejFzHtpiZI 🖥️ The Future of PC Gaming https://youtu.be/_QT7O3Wxi2s 🔴 Games Industry M&A https://youtu.be/65nyPk6WNrs 🔴 Netcode for Multiplayer Games https://youtu.be/tHq3PzmjhLw 🔴 IDFA Deprecation Product Impact https://youtu.be/Ojec4wGKpso 🔴 Trip Hawkins on the New High Score https://youtu.be/5egTSQ6AiRA 🔴 LiveOps F2P Best Practices https://youtu.be/tmzqqnYbjNY