A proof-of-concept video has been shared showing the integration of ChatGPT into Unity. The prevalence of ChatGPT is only increasing with time, and the software has is already being used in various industries, including healthcare, finance, and customer service. Beyond these more practical uses, there is also potential for ChatGPT to be utilized in the creative sphere. Judging by the video doing the rounds currently, game development could likely be the next industry to be transformed by AI software.For the uninitiated, ChatGPT is a powerful language model developed by OpenAI, based on the GPT-3.5 architecture. It is capable of generating human-like responses to a wide range of natural language queries. On the other hand, Unity is one of the most popular game engines in the industry. It is used by millions of developers worldwide to aid in the creation games for various platforms, including console, mobile, and PC.Unity developer Keijiro Takahashi, shared the video via Twitter. In the video, Keijiro is using a ChatGPT plugin for Unity Editor to type natural language prompts directly into the engine’s editor to generate objects, move them, and duplicate them. This introduction of official ChatGPT integration into Unity has the potential to change the entire landscape of video game development.
The AICommand project is available to find on GitHub. Those who wish to use it should have Unity 2022.2 or later and generate a special API key. While it is easy to be blown away by the power of this tool, it should be noted that for right now, this plugin is only intended as a proof-of-concept. Takahashi himself has spoken about the several times that he entered a command that the plugin failed to implement correctly.
With that being said though, like all AI software, ChatGPT is capable of growing in complexity along with the passage of time, as it learns from other data being uploaded to the internet on a regular basis. Combine that with the fact that the developers of the GPT-3.5 architecture are already working on GPT-4, and suddenly the idea of developing a fully-fledged video game with no knowledge of programming becomes a possibility.
Last month, the YouTube channel Corridor Crew uploaded a video showing how they were able to create an anime-style animation using a combination of AI software and video editing. The combination of these two advancements means that in years to come, it is not completely outside the realm of possibility that someone with a surface level understanding of development technology could create their own video game from scratch.