About AI host a IF?

[Pebblerubble (Peter Wiehe)]

I think we could use more intelligent parsers (especially for new IF players), I mean the algorithm that tries to find out what the player wants to do. [You could call it input AI.] But I don’t think this can be done with ChatGPT.

I don’t think it would work to let AI decide what the game world does in reaction to the input. [This could be called game logic AI.]

Edit: Sorry I wasn’t aware that this has been discussed excessively already.

For example read this post:

Implementing ChatGPT's Parser

ChatGPT (and its predecessors) don’t understand the user’s input. Usually when people say this they mean “It doesn’t understand the way a human does”. Then you have a philosophical debate about human cognition and it doesn’t go anywhere. But that’s not what I mean. I mean it doesn’t understand input the way Zork does. It doesn’t do the job that the crappy two-word parser I wrote in BASIC on my Apple 2 does. An IF parser matches input against its world model. You type “GET LAMP”; it sorts thro…