Roblox brings generative AI to its gaming universe
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Roblox is testing a tool that could speed up the process of creating and modifying objects in the game by getting artificial intelligence to write the code. The tool allows anyone who plays Roblox to create items such as buildings, terrain, and avatars; change the way those things look and behave; and give them new interactive properties by typing what they want to achieve in natural language rather than complex code.
“Suppose I need a shiny metal sword for an experience I’m creating,” says Daniel Sturman, CTO at Roblox. “It should be really easy to create that.”
Sturman showed WIRED the new Roblox tool that generates the code needed to create objects and change their appearance and behavior. In the demo, typing “red paint, reflective metal finish” or “purple foil, crumpled pattern, reflective” into a chat window changed the appearance of a sports car in-game. It was also possible to add a new game behavior by typing “Blink the headlines every time the user presses “B”” and “Make it float”.
Dubbed generative AI, the technology has garnered attention and investment over the past year by showing that algorithms can produce seemingly coherent text and aesthetically pleasing images when given a brief text prompt. The technology relies on AI models trained on lots of data, in the form of text or images scraped from the internet, and is also at work in the viral chatbot ChatGPT. Some AI researchers are experimenting with generative techniques to generate video and 3D content, but this is mostly in the early stages.
Computer code creation was one of the first practical uses for generative AI, and Microsoft and Amazon are already selling tools that can automatically write useful blocks of software. However, Roblox’s announcement shows how companies can adapt code-writing skills to create their own generative AI products, aimed at people who may not be experienced coders.
Sturman says the approach for Roblox is promising because so many of the games on its platform are developed by individuals or small teams. “We have everything on our platform, from studios to 12-year-olds who had an amazing idea from summer camp,” says Sturman.
Roblox says the AI it uses to create code relies on a combination of internal technology and outside capabilities, though it’s not disclosed where. Currently, the company only trains its AI with game content in the public domain. According to Sturman, Roblox will take careful steps to ensure users don’t mind having their creations fed into generative AI algorithms.
Microsoft was the first company to use the latest generation of AI for coding, through a deal with OpenAI, which adapted a general-purpose language technology called GPT to run a code generator called Codex. Microsoft has improved Codex’s coding capabilities by feeding more data from GitHub, a popular software development repository, and making it available through its Visual Studio programming application.
Visual Studio and other AI-enabled programming environments typically write code in response to a developer’s comment or when the user begins typing. Startup Replit, which makes a popular online programming tool, recently launched a chatbot-like interface that not only writes code, but answers programming questions.
