近年呢，人工智能就开始进入了这个游戏世界啦，其实就不单止帮助这个开发游戏，甚至呢，开始变成游戏里面的角色啦，还有队友啦。今集的《潮玩科技》呢，我们也想和 Billy 一起探讨一下，这个人工智能是不是在改变这个未来游戏的体验呢？那么，首先想问问 Billy，最近开始多了人说这个 AI NPC 或者这个 AI 的 teammates 啦，其实这个究竟是什么概念来的呢？

这个 AI 的 NPC 呢，就其实来讲，就好像，呃，游戏，说回游戏先。那么游戏呢，就以前呢，就已经固定了那个游戏的规则啦，可以这么说。游戏的规则啊，或者故事啊，或者内容啊，那么变成呢，它就已经固定了所有，或者玩到某一个 stage，那么变了第二个 stage，之类的，之类的，之类的这样。那么就等于看戏这样，这出戏呢就已经是做好了的嘛，就是你不可以说的，就是变的。但是跟真实情形呢就有点不同，因为人呢，真人来讲呢，就不是每天都是这样的，那么变成来讲，它现在呢，就 NPC 呢，全名就是 non-player characters。那么它呢，就是怎样呢，就是不是一定固定了它的反应，还有它的性格，还有它的做事的方针。以前呢就这么做非常之难，即譬如你拍部戏，或者不知道大家是否记得，就可能结局有几个版本的，就是你拍着拍着，到最后呢，就给 A 版本、给 B 版本、C 版本，都是先拍着。但是现在 AI 就不是了，AI 呢就是在里面的故事里面呢，有些人物啦，或者是有些，就是动物都好啦，那么它那些什么样的反应啊，还有什么呢，它是，当然是有个框架、条条在管着它，就不要乱乱晒大龙。但是它的反应呢，是随着那个你和它的 interaction，即是你和它聊天也好啊，和它玩也好呢，它是会有变化的。

哇，即是说到呢，其实我们同一个虚拟的人呢，和我们对打，或者是和我们一起做队友去打啦。那么其实，即是变相来讲，和真人，和以往的玩法真的很不同，那么其实会不会即是改变了游戏本身的那个玩法呢？

会的，因为其实来讲，你可能，呃，等于你一个篮球队这样，你今天打，和你另外那四个队友，和明天打，都是同那四个队友，但是那四个队友可能，呃，呃，即是健康状况又不同，或者他的心情又不同，或者他那天特别好运啊，射什么球都进之类。那么变成来讲呢，就是他是，你的比例呢，就是真的好像和真人呢，去玩游戏，即不是玩游戏，就是跟真人去比，比拼啊，或者真人一起去打怪兽啊之类的。那么变成呢，就是令到呢，就是你吸引呢，就很多。那么所以呢，就是说，呃，来现在很多游戏呢，就是你一路和他讲的嘛，一路和他聊天，一路和他玩，好像 friend 一起。那么他呢，那些和你讲的话，他也是千变万化的，即一路变的，不是说每次你和他讲什么，他的答案都是一样，这是其一。第二就是说，他的性格呢，有时闹得有点，有时恶点，或者有时善良点，或者有时就有一点点不同，但当然就不会说一百八十度变了，因为人也不会是这样啦。所以令到你呢，就是沉迷，或者是可以说堕入感呢，是会高一点的。那么另外呢，就说不只是那人物的性格，就算他的声音啊，因为现在 AI 做声音就很厉害了。那么他可能就说，你那个声，可能就是模仿某些人的声音，你话我是喜欢某个明星玩的，那么他可能模仿那个明星的声音，和你玩都行。那么所以呢，其实现在呢，就那个变化呢，就是非常之大。

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... and, you know, we're not just, like, restricting ourselves to sex within marriage.

But Gen Z is the first one where it's pulling back.

I do wanna, like, dive deeper into, like, these... like, this research, 'cause I am curious of their measuring sex.

Like, are they just saying sex? Are they defining sex? Are they having more kinky sex but it's not technically, you know, PIV sex? Are they having queerer sex? Like, that I'd be very curious about.

But they are, it seems, having less sex than the counterparts.

And, like, you're seeing, like, the TikTok people coming on and talking about, like...

No girls ever fall for you that way? [laughs]

Yep.

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Have you only come over now to get out of doing some drills? [laughs]

Yeah.

Um, so yeah, it's crazy.

Like, um, the markets sort of ignore that noise.

You know, we talked about it, um, you know earlier on in one of our, um, catch-ups and recordings that, um, you know, the market ignores that, and it's all about buying at, um, dollar-cost averaging.

Doesn't matter what's happening in the world, just continue to buy where you can, and that's what your KiwiSaver does.

Um, it, it buys at low prices, high prices, and it averages out.

Yeah, so that's, that's what's happening in that space.

I love that

Once again, Billy has managed to surprise me.

I basically, putting it bluntly, shit all over that woman on many occasions.

There was one particular Sunday morning that she was up cooking breakfast, and the phone rings, and there's a woman on the phone, and the woman says, "Hey, this is Angela.

Can I speak to Billy?" And my wife said, "Well, who are you?" And she just openly told her, she said, "Well, I'm his girlfriend." Can you imagine a wife getting a phone conversation like that on a Sunday morning in the middle of breakfast saying, "I'm your husband's girlfriend"?If Elise broaches that with you, I can assure you that every single word that she says is accurate.

And if it's not a really ugly picture, she's left something out, 'cause trust me, it's a really ugly picture.

But there's absolutely nothing that I won't be completely honest and open about.

Jonathan, I have absolutely no problem discussing anything with you.

He tells me he kept his distance out of fear that Elise didn't wanna hear from him at all, but he thinks about her all the time.

You cannot hit the wall.

That's...

Dude, the one time his brother took me, he was like, "Dude, this is gonna be awesome." We rolled in.

There was a guy on a date.

It was like a snow bunny, Black Panther party situation.

And I was like, "Yo."

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But since, you know, you Mr. 43-inch vertical himself, since you Mr. Dunkademics himself, I wanna hear who's your best dunkers, or favorite dunkers.

So if we're talking about NBA, uh, number one's gotta be Vince Carter for me.

Um, I think most, most people typically agree with that.

Um, my top three, I would say is Vince, MJ, and Dominique Wilkins.

I think for me, over the last, like, 10, 15 years, I haven't really wavered with those guys in my top three.

Um, after that is where it gets like...

I, I've maneuvered them around so much, um, but guys that I probably, like, for sure have in my top 10 after that, not really in any order, are like Blake Griffin, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, um...

Mm.