I get a lot of DMs to my X account with people pitching for coverage all the time. Occasionally one stands out more than others which piques my interest. I play games, I am super interested in AI as is Readwrite in general so it\u2019s easy to get bored with the number of companies either saying they are using AI or even more like \u201cWe aren\u2019t using AI!! How dare you<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n What if the game was AI? What if it was all pretty much AI, programmed by a human called Max \u2013 I least I think he\u2019s a human, after an hour with Talk to Me Human I am no longer sure as I since was. Part of me thinks I may have been talking to Skynet.<\/p>\n On X we talked about where we lived, gaming interests, and the like and all the while talking about the game Max has been working on called Talk to Me Human \u2013 which has just gone into Early Access and is billed as \u201cThe talking your way out of it simulator!\u201d<\/p>\n Whether Max was AI or not. I agreed to have a look at it as I usually do and dug a little deeper.<\/p>\n Talk to Me Human features a cast of AI NPCs who interact with you on the fly depending on your responses. They are all AI-driven and are your friends and associates in the game. You have \u201cnormal\u201d conversations with them and you score points depending on what you say \u2013 they basically mark your social skills.<\/p>\n Now when I say you have normal conversations with them, I mean \u2018conversations\u2019 \u2013 you speak into your microphone, the game translates your speech to text via AI, and the AI judges how you dealt with the scenario. It\u2019s all a bit mind-blowing.<\/p>\n The game starts with your roommate telling you your cat has gone missing so you have to go down to the pound where you will have an interaction of talking to your cat \u2013 actually talking mind \u2013 while it meows back at you.<\/p>\n I won\u2019t spoil the plot because immediately after you have finished reading this you are going to go and pay your $5 for early access to try out but the tagline is \u201ca game where you use your voice to get out of sticky situations,\u201d and this is a super accurate description of events! Max describes the mechanics of the game as follows:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/human2-900x553.jpg\"\/)
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