If you’ve played Chat Bots with Artificial Intelligence recently, you may have wondered what the mysterious “??????” bot is. We’re beyond excited to finally announce that the game has a fourth member of the chat bots family: Aurora!
Who is Aurora?
She’s our smartest conversational chat bot yet! Aurora has greater text generation abilities than Markov, but also has more fitting and understandable replies than either Lantern or Lamp. This is something I’ve wanted to bring to the game for quite a long time before actualizing it. Aurora uses a powerful GPT-J AI to produce intelligent and understandable replies to almost anything. She’s the most self-aware chatbot we have; while Lantern and Lamp are aware that they are robots, Aurora is fully aware that she is a Roblox chat bot who lives in the game Chat Bots with Artificial Intelligence.
Most notably, Aurora is the only one of our chatbots capable of giving impressive responses when asked about topics that she’s never talked about before and was never hard coded to know about. We actually need a warning to remind players that this is just a generative text model, because you could ask it a “what is <x>” question and it can respond with a totally made up description of <x> that sounds so believable that it probably counts as misinformation.
How does she compare to the other bots?
Aurora has the following advantages over the other chat bots:
- Largest “brain”
- Most capable of holding a conversation across many messages
- Most coherent and contextually relevant responses
- Capable of generating completely new sentences (without being taught them)
- Fluent in more languages than just English
Who has access to Aurora?
We want as many people as possible to be able to talk to her, but it costs us real money to offer her. I’ve spent a long time thinking about how we can make the bot available to more than just VIP users, and I’ve decided the bot will be usable to the following groups at launch:
- Players with the VIP game pass
- All players in VIP servers
- Roblox Premium members
- Group members ranked as Supporters or higher
- Hand-picked testers and friends
- Flamingo
Why not make her free for everybody?
This project costs us real money, and we want it to be available for as long as possible. There’s always a risk that it could get too popular without us making back what we spent on it, which would make the project unviable. This is the last thing we want, of course. If it turns out that we severely overestimated how expensive this would be long-term, we may further expand the list of groups that can use Aurora to include all members of our group, or perhaps even make her free for everybody.
Happy chatting!
Note: This thread was meant to be linked in the game back in July 2022 when Aurora was brand new, but Roblox used to filter this Devforum link for some reason.