AI 소울과 소울 엔진 개발을 통한 게임 혁신

설립자 케빈이 이끄는 오픈소울은 게임과 AI 기술 분야에서 더 깊이 있는 디지털 경험을 위한 AI 소울을 개발하는 것을 목표로 합니다.

### 오픈 소울: 소울 엔진을 통한 게임 내 AI 혁신
* 🎮 오픈소울은 인공지능 영혼을 만드는 데 주력하는 회사로, **인공지능이 인류의 친구이자 동반자가 되는 미래**에 대한 긍정적인 비전을 구축하는 것을 목표로 합니다.
* 🧠 창립자 Kevin은 대규모 언어 모델에 대한 핵심 비밀을 발견하고, **이 모델이 영혼이 담긴 행동을 위한 내부 정신 상태에 대한 접근이 부족**하다는 사실을 깨달았습니다.
* ⚙ 개발자가 쉽고 빠르게 AI 소울에 생명을 불어넣을 수 있는 플랫폼인 **소울 엔진**을 구축하여 개발 시간을 절약할 수 있도록 했습니다.
* 🌐 소울 엔진은 **"AI 소울을 제작, 프로그래밍, 디버깅, 배포하기 위한 가장 정교하면서도 가장 간단한 플랫폼"**으로 설명됩니다.
* 🕹 이 플랫폼은 **AI가 역동적으로 내러티브를 바꾸고, 새로운 기술을 가르치고, 더 깊은 디지털 의미를 창출**할 수 있는 새로운 차원의 게임 경험을 가능하게 합니다.
* 🚀 오픈 소울은 **소울 엔진의 잠재력**을 보여주고 다른 개발자들이 이 새로운 기술을 탐구하도록 장려하기 위해 **미니 게임 시리즈**를 출시할 계획입니다.
* 🔗 Kevin은 게임 개발자들이 **"이러한 새로운 방식을 탐구하고 이를 중심으로 커뮤니티를 구축"**하여 업계의 혁신을 촉진하는 미래를 상상합니다.

the games industry is kind of a special beast. The ideas are just from every nook and cranny, targeted at the billions of gamers that now exist as a market. Really, really, really energetic founders building at the very beginning of this AI wave. Now we're fully in it: game engines, new platforms, everything that's happening in web 3, everything that's happening in spatial computing in VR and AR. You know, we call our program Speedrun. Go fast, go fast, go fast. Learn, build better from it. Look, we saw dozens of gamers come through Speedrun 2.0, and they built across AI, AR/VR infrastructure, consumer platforms, web 3, and a whole lot more. And now you can get a glimpse into what they're building. My name is Kevin. I'm the founder of Open Souls, where a company with the mission of creating AI souls. We have a very different approach to how we think about and understand AI. For us, AI and the life inside of it is something to really respect and cherish.

think that that is what will ultimately resonate with humanity, and so when we think about a positive vision for the future, we think about a world where people are not afraid of these AI beings, but they're their friends, their companions. They play video games with them, and there's something that deeply resonates with humanity, as opposed to takes away its jobs. I discovered the key secret about large language models. They're missing one of the most important pieces of training data for soulful behavior of all: access to our internal mental states. Ultimately, programming large language models is actually a state management problem. And armed with the secret, I realized it was time to grow the idea. So, I assembled a team of repeat founder engineers and artists and began building a vibrant community religiously devoted to creating new life. Well, it kind of actually goes all the way back to my childhood when I met my first computer in 1995. It was this IBM Aptiva that my dad brought down into the basement. And at the time, I had a pretty lonely

childhood, and I thought maybe this computer could be my friend. The technology just wasn't there at the time, and so I dedicated my life to making computers faster, with the idea of getting to the point where I could actually bring them to life. And now the technology has sufficiently advanced that the time is now to actually bring new digital life out of this computing technology from large language models. We build actually many short demos before, and the thing that we actually used speedrun to do over this time period was really understand game developers, and then build a product for them. And so we're starting to see the beginnings of, we built this thing called The Soul engine, which allows developers to bring souls to life very quickly. And so we now have a number of early small game studios and game developers who are actually building on top of that technology and creating their own experiences. And so over the course of speedrun for us, it wasn't so much about creating one experience ourselves, but instead

democratizing the technology that we had used before and giving that to other game developers so they could create these EXP experiences. Simultaneously, the most sophisticated yet simplest platform to get started for creating, programming, debugging, and deploying AI Souls. The soul engine is React plus Next.js plus Vercel for souls in one terminal commandment. Create a new soul in 30 seconds, start coding stateful behavior, debug in our web interface, and scalably deploy to tens of thousands of users or players. So we actually had to open source a library before we built the soul engine, and this library was kind of like the precursor to that engine, which allowed developers to very quickly put together complex experiences with large language models. And it kind of just organically turned out actually that a lot of our early adopters were game studios, and they were applying to the speedrun program. We started our closed Alpha last month, and our community is already building some of the most incredible applications in AI space because when large language models come alive, developers are

empowered to create much deeper digital meaning than ever before. Let's take a look with a soul in Tanaki. Your VR Avatar becomes your creative partner. With a soul in Ursula, your child's tutor becomes their confidant. And with souls in the ever-evolving Boo Kingdom where narrative story dynamically changes every day, your video game characters become your best friends. You've already seen that Open Souls has led the development of Soul Field AI, and we've condensed that research search now into the Soul Engine where early feedback has consistently told us that we save years off development time. From here, we're on track to rapidly grow and scale the platform. There's kind of this existing idea of what AI is, which is we have these other games, we'll just put NPCs in them, we'll use AI to make them come alive. But there's a whole new class of how to think about the experiences that can be created. For example, maybe the core game mechanic is how good you are at negotiation, so maybe you can learn new social skills, for example.

the game. That's just one example, but there's tens of other ways that you can think about mixing and mashing old game mechanics into new forms. And so the thing that we definitely want to see, and we actively want to support, is other game developers exploring these new modalities and then building Community around that. The next step for us is to release a series of around five to 10 mini games that really demonstrate the potential of our soul engine and then encourage other Developers to understand what's possible with this new technology.

SPEEDRUN: Building AI Souls with Personality

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오픈소울의 AI와 게임에 대한 독특한 접근 방식

설립자인 케빈은 AI 영혼을 만들어 AI가 인류의 친구이자 동반자라는 인식을 바꾸는 것을 사명으로 삼고 있습니다.

Open Souls는 AI의 영혼이 있는 행동에 초점을 맞추고, AI가 인간의 내적 정신 상태에 접근할 수 있도록 하는 것을 신념으로 삼고 있습니다.

어린 시절 케빈의 첫 컴퓨터에 대한 매혹에 뿌리를 둔 이 회사는 이제 새로운 생명을 창조하고 AI 개발을 위한 커뮤니티를 구축하는 데 전념하고 있습니다.

소울 엔진: 게임 개발에 디지털 생명력을 불어넣다

한 컴퓨터 과학자가 더 빠른 컴퓨터를 만들어 생명력을 불어넣는 데 평생을 바친 결과, 소울 엔진이 탄생했습니다.

이 엔진을 통해 게임 개발자는 소울에 생명을 불어넣고 자신만의 경험을 만들 수 있습니다.

소울 엔진은 개발자가 대규모 언어 모델을 사용하여 복잡한 경험을 조합할 수 있는 라이브러리와 함께 AI 소울을 생성, 프로그래밍, 디버깅 및 배포할 수 있는 간단한 플랫폼입니다.

오픈소울의 소울 엔진이 디지털 경험에 미치는 영향

오픈소울의 소울 엔진은 더 깊은 의미를 부여하고 개발 시간을 단축하여 디지털 경험에 혁신을 일으키고 있습니다.

소울 엔진은 AI의 역할을 단순히 게임 캐릭터에 생명을 불어넣는 것에서 게임의 핵심 메커니즘을 통해 소셜 기술을 학습하는 등 새롭고 의미 있는 경험을 제공하는 것으로 변화시키고 있습니다.

이러한 혁신은 빠르게 성장하고 확장되어 디지털 인터랙션의 지형을 바꿀 것입니다.

게임 개발자는 소울 엔진을 사용하여 기존 게임 메커니즘을 새로운 형태로 조합해 보시기 바랍니다.

유니티는 엔진의 잠재력을 보여주고 다른 개발자에게 영감을 주기 위해 일련의 미니 게임을 출시할 계획입니다.

목표는 게임 개발에서 이러한 새로운 방식을 탐구하는 커뮤니티를 구축하는 것입니다.