Add AI

[amiroo]

Hello everyone. This game is great but it needs something like AI.
Right now we can only listen to the characters and only sometimes they ask us questions and we can answer them.
It would be better to add an offline text AI to the game so that we can talk to each character at least 2 times a day or give them a request. This way if we have been good to a character before, he will fulfill some of our requests.

 

[Terdin]

It really doesn't need that.

 

[Hollyfox]

no it doesn't need that. i'd say the character interactions are great right now
edit: and plus ai in general is terrible for the gaming community because of how much ram and all that important computer bits that ai data centers use up.

 

[Lew Zealand]

AI will need to become significantly better before game devs add it in as an in-game dialog option. And Stardew specifically won't get AI as ConcernedApe said so, and one of the charms of this game is the personal interactions. Written by a person with feelings drawn from life events, not a homogenized amalgamation of generic interactions summarized by a large language model. LLMs have excellent use cases when it comes to data reduction tasks like that. But this game is all about particular types of interactions and how someone might react in that moment, while language models do the opposite: give a genericized version of events.

If you're looking for more Stardew-type content maybe try reading any of the stories that hundreds of people have written about their characters or in the Stardew setting, either here in the Fan Works sections or out on the wider internet. There are loads of stories stuffed full of heart and fun and whimsy and humor. In fact it'd be interesting to prompt an LLM to write a Stardew fanfic and see how well or terribly it does compared to a human writer.

 

[LRangerR]

I think AI needs reality instead of a Real nice little game needing AI.

If the future robots overlords are insane, it will be their insane programmer's fault.

 

[actualhumanbeing]

I think such concept about enhancing characters dialogue — would be best with devs manually adding more dialogues, rather than inserting a mini LLM to the game; it is better simple.

I like the idea of it being offline, but I am not sure about how ideal a small LLM would fit here, and what device specs it would need.

 

[dragonflySky]

I'd stop playing if it had anything AI and I couldn't switch it off. To me I love Stardew because it's simple and hand-crafted with care and attention to detail. It's a work of art. Even dialogue and interactions can be deterministic rather than statistical so it doesn't need LLMs. Plus it would be more demanding on the hardware.

 

[LRangerR]

Yeah honestly I'd stop playing too.

 

[Nonak]

I'd stop playing if it had anything AI and I couldn't switch it off. To me I love Stardew because it's simple and hand-crafted with care and attention to detail. It's a work of art. Even dialogue and interactions can be deterministic rather than statistical so it doesn't need LLMs. Plus it would be more demanding on the hardware.

I was about to say the same thing. I'd stop playing or find an older version that doesn't have that.

 

[Ih8Lewis4ever]

Fortunately, if AI got released in the 1.7 update, I wouldn't be able to play it because my (poor, old) Nintendo Switch doesn't work well with AI, so the console players would essentially get saved from the AI takeover of Stardew Valley.

 

[Nonak]

Fortunately, if AI got released in the 1.7 update, I wouldn't be able to play it because my (poor, old) Nintendo Switch doesn't work well with AI, so the console players would essentially get saved from the AI takeover of Stardew Valley.

But that would mean you're missing out on everything else in 1.7

 

[Yogurt_The_Cow]

No

 

[EliteDangerGamer]

No

Valid
to give an example of how ai is bad
once a google ai summary had commas after every word (like, this, example, sentence,)
completely forgot what the search actually was for
and (in a rather funny search) was heavily biased (towards, you guessed it, ai)

Oh
and I'm pretty sure RAM can be used for better things than ai


Also, there are a ton of other issues with ai, such as class imbalance (X is really rare, so I can get 99% accuracy by saying X won't happen), Hallucinations (once a bot told an airlines customer about a refund policy that didn't exist, court found the airline was responsible for all information on their website), and other random glitches such as google ai suggesting to put glue on pizza (to keep cheese in place), drink chlorine gas (poison), and once a Chevrolet bot would accept any offer, even selling a whole car for $1 (

), and more errors (which some are just hilarious (like the previous example)

 

[Nonak]

drink chlorine gas (poison)

So it decided to start a war against humans and looked at what was used in WW1. Pretty outdated sourse.

AI hallucinations are hilarious till it gets a little less absurd and someone trusts it on some important topic. Hopefully it sticks to telling us there are three a's in the word strawberry.