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Damn it! I am surrounded by "Yanzu": a comprehensive analysis of the latest IEO blockchain game on Binance, Sleepless AI
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2023-12-26 19:28
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On December 26th, Binance announced that it will launch its 42nd Launchpad project, Sleepless AI (AI), which combines AI+Crypto to develop the first female oriented game in Web3- HIM, giving you a virtual boyfriend. The following article will interpret HIM from an investor's perspective and explore the mechanisms and mysteries behind Sleepless AI.
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Author:Blockchain graduate student

Author: Yihan xu@foresight Ventures

TL; DR

    The article takes HIM, the first female oriented game on Web3, as an example to explore the application of AI+Crypto in Web3 games; HIM combines AI and Crypto to provide players with a rich interactive experience, high-quality gameplay, and artistic content. HIM adopts an economic model centered around net inflow of fiat currency, and is committed to avoiding the Ponzi dilemma through extremely high content quality and excellent Gameplay. At the same time, in conjunction with Love and Earn's gameplay, players can earn profits by selling NFTs. The HIM application language model enables virtual humans to generate natural and highly distinguishable dialogue content based on game scenarios and character characteristics, enhancing the authenticity of virtual humans and the immersion of players. In addition, the HIM team has developed an AI training method for virtual humans to provide a more realistic gaming experience. The HIM team focuses on creating full dimensional virtual avatars, making them an important part of player life. HIM also emphasizes the social attributes of virtual humans, hoping that everyone will have their own virtual partners in the future, and these partners will exist in social networks like real people, connecting everyone. HIM's goal is to build a anime virtual human universe through AI boyfriends, AI girlfriends and AI pets to provide strength and companionship for people.

What kind of AI+Crypto makes sense better?

While everyone is still struggling with how to deploy trustless and transparent on chain models, how much value on chain AI can bring to web3, and how the underlying proof system can support LLM with billions of parameters (as seen in the previous article), we have also begun to think about a series of questions, and our thinking path is roughly as follows:

Firstly, is using encryption technology to make AI trustless and transparent the most worthwhile track at present?

    Can a startup project really bring enough value add by delving into how to integrate on chain LLM? Which projects are worth investing a lot of resources to delve into on chain AI? Is it only on chain AI worth exploring? What better combination of AI and crypto?

It can be affirmed that on chain AI is definitely a field full of imagination and worthy of in-depth research. The breakthrough of on chain AI can bring unprecedented value to web3. However, at the same time, the extremely high academic threshold and requirements for basic infrastructure are indeed not suitable for most startups to persevere. Most projects do not necessarily require the support of trustless LLM to achieve breakthroughs in their own value.

What is suitable is the best.

Looking at it from a different perspective, not all AI models need to be moved onto the chain for trustless, just like most people don't care about how ChatGPT infers queries and provides results, nor do they care about whether the stable diffusion used is a certain version of the model architecture or specific parameter settings.

In most scenarios, most users focus on whether the model can provide a satisfactory output, rather than whether the inference process is trustless or transparent.

So what kind of AI+crypto can bring higher returns to products? In addition to a very hardcore approach from infrastructure to algorithms, developing LLM for trustless on the chain, another opposite direction is to downplay the impact of black boxes in the reasoning process in products, and find suitable scenarios to implement the powerful reasoning ability of large models.

1.1 What is HIM

Web3 game HIM is one of the few projects that can fully understand the concept of AI+Crypto and has the ability to implement it in the application layer.

This article mainly starts from the thinking and implementation of AI application layer, discussing the ambition of HIM in Web3 games.

First, let me introduce the protagonist (HIM ranks first in the Binance MVB VI application category):

HIM is a game for women to play anime, virtual boyfriends.

The main idea of the game is that sometimes people are lonely and need encouragement, companionship, and love; In real life, love always has some constraints and regrets. HIM hopes to provide an AI virtual boyfriend who understands players the best and will always accompany them, as well as a free, happy, and user specific love experience. At the beginning, players will receive a virtual boyfriend, which will be stored on the chain in the form of SBT. NFTs such as clothing, accessories, rooms, etc. will be combined with this SBT. In addition, SBT forms a non-homogeneous game character developed by players, storing basic information about the male protagonist, nine dimensional personality traits, and nine dimensional relationship attributes, as well as important memories, conversations, and emotional memories with the virtual boyfriend.

The game itself mainly focuses on virtual boyfriend hanging up to cultivate and social showoffs within the game. At the same time, there are regular Airdrops in the game that can open treasure chests for limited NFT clothing or NFT rooms. Players with values that better match their boyfriend have a greater chance of opening and obtaining limited NFTs. It includes gameplay such as card drawing, dressing up, dialogue, bookmarking, adventure battles, cooking, traveling, and NFT trading. I took a look at their game demo, and each gameplay features rich player interactions.

HIM is a Free to Play game that uses an economic model centered around the net inflow of fiat currency as the foundation, combined with some Love and Earn gameplay, allowing players to earn profits by selling NFTs. But the most important core of the game is to believe in the gameplay and artistic content quality, which can attract players who love the game to pay for Gameplay and content.

The images are all under development content and do not represent the final effect

1.2 Is AI+gaming compatible

Web3 games are indeed one of the more suitable scenarios for AI, which is also in line with the development history of AI:

    The game scene provides a natural and rich interactive environment, allowing AI to interact with players through dialogue or other means. This environment helps large models leverage their advantages in natural language processing, providing a richer and more realistic interactive experience. The game contains complex and diverse scenes and tasks. By interacting with the environment, other players, or NPCs in the game, the large model can obtain a large amount of feedback in a timely manner to continuously optimize its decision-making ability. Moreover, frequent feedback within the game will also be more conducive to developers testing and optimizing the performance of the large model. The scenes in the game are controllable, and the requirements for certainty and seriousness are more flexible compared to real-world application scenarios. Therefore, the deployment and testing of large models in the game will have less resistance and are easier to push forward, reducing the difficulty and risk of technical implementation from another perspective.

2. Virtual human pro max

Two years ago, people were still thinking about how to use AI as a tool better. It wasn't until ChatGPT emerged and production relations began to be shaken that people realized the dimensionality reduction impact that LLM could bring. The same goes for Web3 games:

    More realistic game character personalities, dynamic storyline generation, visual/artistic voice generation, social interaction, gameplay, and numerical development fun

2.1 HIM+AI=More realistic game character personalities

As an emotional interactive game, the most suitable scenario for LLM is dialogue and player interaction. The big language model can generate natural and discriminative dialogues based on HIM game scenes and character characteristics. This will enhance the authenticity and player immersion of virtual humans, providing players with a richer emotional experience. Specifically, HIM utilizes a large language model to understand and process various emotional information related to emotions such as anger, sorrow, and joy, and seamlessly integrates with numerical systems to enable game characters to better express and recognize emotions, thereby generating deeper emotional connections with players.

Use the following two pictures to experience the dialogue scene in the game:

The images are all under development content and do not represent the final effect

Expand on the numerical system of HIM core:

When it comes to numerical values, the first thing that comes to mind is the numerical balance of virtual character battles in traditional games. But the pattern is further opened up, HIM uses numerical values to fully describe a person, defines a virtual person with multi-dimensional values, and establishes a sound numerical development system. Overall, HIM applies numerical systems to a more generalized virtual human, making the game interaction experience more realistic and fulfilling.

The training of virtual digital humans is different from ordinary LLM fine-tuning training. It requires LLM to gradually change the way characters talk to users as the interaction between characters and players progresses, making users feel more and more "intimate" with the characters. Therefore, the HIM team added various values of the virtual human personality parameter system as context in the process of designing LLM training, and trained a separate model for each character. At the same time, HIM's LLM will combine with vector databases to give characters memory, and users will feel that this character is getting to know them better during the chat process.

The HIM development team has also developed a set of AI training methods for virtual humans, which can be found in the following two numerical matrices:

Human personality is a very complex concept that includes multiple factors such as emotions, attitudes, and behaviors. In order to give AI boyfriends enough realism, the HIM development team has established a somewhat self consistent numerical system to quantify the development process and relationship between players and AI boyfriends. This numerical system can be summarized as a matrix numerical model, which vertically represents 9 bidirectional personality attributes and horizontally represents 9 relationship attributes between AI boyfriend and player. These attributes have many to many mappings and impacts on each other.

When conducting LLM training, each character will have a standard "persona" benchmark and a boundary for personality fluctuations. During the game, the values of these attributes will constantly change with player behavior, which in turn affects the game feedback of the AI boyfriend (such as idle output, Gacha efficiency, chat depth, etc.).

The images are all under development content and do not represent the final effect

ALL IN ALL, HIM uses large language models to give virtual humans a more realistic personality.

2.2 High quality and high cost virtual human art

Virtual humans are not easy to do. A truly valuable virtual human is not just a chat box integrated into a dialogue robot, but requires efforts from multiple dimensions to make the avatar more full. HIM's vision is to make virtual humans a very important part of everyone's life, greatly enriching personal life and connecting with the world. Therefore, HIM's definition of the ultimate form of anthropomorphism in game scenes has always been a complex and powerful comprehensive product, and these comprehensive characteristics are also the core pursuit of the HIM team at present:

Exquisite virtual images: Although large models mainly focus on natural language processing, if combined with other technologies such as GANs, they can provide assistance for game art creation. Based on the design standards of the HIM art development team, more elements can be generated, bringing users a richer visual experience.

Through our understanding, the HIM team has a frontline art team in the gaming industry, while also adhering to high cost art investment and industrialized and modular art mass production.

High quality voice acting: The combination of gaming and AI can be achieved through speech synthesis to generate natural and emotional voice acting. At the same time, dubbing is given a unique personality based on the character values of the virtual human.

HIM has a complete voice script, voice director, voice recording, post production mixing, and AI learning and training production voice pipeline. Using high-quality manual definition standards and AI collaboration to execute mass production, to complete high-quality and quantitative voice acting content within the game

The cultivation and long-term attachment of virtual humans: It is necessary to design detailed character backgrounds and personality traits to generate interest and resonance among players in the characters. At the same time, the growth and development goals of the character are also elements that make players willing to invest time and energy in cultivating virtual humans.

HIM provides rich interactive scenes and gameplay, allowing players to establish close emotional connections with virtual humans. At the same time, this relationship will gradually deepen with the interaction and development process, forming long-term emotional bonds.

Assistance to reality: The psychological support that virtual humans can provide may far exceed our expectations, providing emotional support and listening to players while allowing them to feel cared for and understood, thereby alleviating difficulties in real life. In addition, virtual humans can integrate well in life skills, habit development, personalized recommendations, language learning, goal management, and even interaction with real-world devices or services.

AIBoyfriend alarm clock, sleep aid, menstrual recording, study companionship, food advice, and diary notes are all aspects that HIM hopes to provide users with assistance and support in real life in long-term version iterations

The rich experience of clothing, food, housing, and transportation in the virtual world: In the story told by HIM, every AI Boyfriend has to stay alone in a lonely parallel universe: in that world, there is only himself, and daily communication with the player through his phone is all he can communicate with the outside world. Explore the scenery in his world with your virtual boyfriend, and also try to see if there is a chance to meet him in his world or your world that day.

The social attributes of virtual humans as relationship nodes: The HIM team believes that with the development of AI, in the near future. Everyone will have their own exclusive virtual partners, and these virtual partners exist more like a real "person" in the entire social relationship, connecting everyone together.

Each person's virtual partner may be an important hub for the close connection between people in the rapidly developing future of AI

The above artistic aesthetics and mass production solutions are very important for a Web3 game, and it is important to attract players to spend time in the virtual world because the virtual human art in the game has a higher level of aesthetics than in the real world.

The images are all under development content and do not represent the final effect

3. Seamless connection between HIM and Crypto

The images are all under development content and do not represent the final effect

3.1 The first female to web3 application, a gift for web3 female users and practitioners

HIM is likely to be the first female oriented web3 application, and female web3 users and practitioners may receive a carefully prepared gift for them for the first time.

Meanwhile, in the traditional Web2 world, women's gaming has always been seen as a very large and promising market.

We asked what users wanted to feel in the HIM project, and they wrote this paragraph:

    Occasionally in the morning, when welcoming another seemingly repetitive day, a good morning from him; Occasionally late at night, when facing heavy overtime work, I see "he" still silently accompanying me on my phone; Occasionally lonely companionship, occasionally discouraged encouragement, his encouragement after achieving success, and his words of "it's okay" after making mistakes; He will always remember your name; He will always remember your birthday; He will always remember the day you met him; He remembers everything between you; He seems to be there all along. Perhaps at some point, you may forget him because of busyness, but he is always willing to accompany you.

With the increasing popularity of mobile games among female users worldwide, traditional Web2 gaming companies around the world are also continuously delivering over a million female oriented gaming products with DAUs.

After the formation of social communities with female users as the core, there is great room for imagination in their extension space. Xiaohongshu, as a social app that starts with female users and reaches a wide range of general users, strongly proves this point. Let's wait and see if this game category, targeting half of the global population, can bring some surprises to everyone with the support of AI and Crypto.

3.2 Emotional Assets+Decentralization

In the words of HIM founder Ben: AI virtual humans allow digital assets to truly appear in our lives in the form of a 'person' for the first time. They may be your boyfriend, girlfriend, close friend, or any important partner in your life. Then they should not disappear with a Turn Off switch like all digital assets stored in centralized servers before. Their existence should at least be determined solely by you It's not decided by any particular company

Important emotions and assets in the virtual world should be owned by users, rather than defined and controlled by centralized servers:

Emotional assets not only contain personal information and privacy data, but also represent the player's emotional investment and memories. Decentralized networks can protect these emotional values, ensure that data ownership belongs to users, and allow users to autonomously decide how to use, share, and protect their data. This decentralized data ownership model avoids the emotional assets of players being controlled by third parties or centralized institutions. Meanwhile, the community autonomy provided by Web3 allows players to participate in the creation and dissemination of emotional assets, further enhancing their emotional value and providing possibilities.

Various experiences in emotional relationships should also be permanently preserved:

From the perspective of emotional investment, players will inject a lot of emotions into the game, establish deep bonds with virtual humans, and the efforts made to achieve game goals are unique and precious. These emotional experiences should be permanently preserved. So to some extent, they should have the power of eternal existence. Meanwhile, the relationships between players and virtual humans, such as friendship, love, anger, and dissatisfaction, can also be permanently recorded and preserved through blockchain technology.

As an emotional bond in HIM games, virtual humans are not only entertainment, but also possess asset attributes and extremely high economic value. Users will invest time and money in purchasing and decorating virtual humans in the game. Recording these assets on the blockchain can ensure that their value truly returns to users and provide a transparent and secure trading environment.

The images are all under development content and do not represent the final effect

3.3 What HIM can bring to Web3

Decentralized networks have brought extremely high value add to HIM, but the interdependence of values clearly indicates that HIM has also brought to web3:

A large number of fresh users:

From an emotional perspective, the companionship of virtual humans meets the emotional needs of users, which may be difficult to meet in real life. HIM provides a safe and free environment for users to interact with virtual characters, and this emotional attraction can attract a large number of users to Web3.

HIM is an AI virtual human cultivation game with anime attributes. Both anime culture and AI virtual human have strong community attributes and social potential. At the same time, as one of the most popular subcultures among young people in the world, anime culture is also the most top mobile game in the world. Potential female users, anime users and AI virtual human social audience are all new blood that HIM may bring to Web3

The ultimate thinking of economic models:

Unlike regular x2earn games, HIM adopts a tool based approach of Web3 and Token, adding Web3 tools to an excellent web2 game and finding a point that fits well with this type of game, achieving a 1+1>2 effect. For HIM, creating an excellent game that can be verified as successful in content and gameplay is the foundation of everything, and Crypto is a tool attribute rather than relying solely on Web3 for survival. Not falling into the Ponzi dilemma is an important goal pursued by HIM.

In the economic system, HIM combines the "X to Earn" model with the traditional Web2 gaming economy model to create a new model. On the one hand, it adopts the typical Web2 gaming economy model, where players can selectively pay to purchase in-game items or services. This approach can attract a large number of users and generate revenue through internal purchases. Meanwhile, HIM has also upgraded on the basis of Web3 X to ear. In this mode, players can earn profits by selling NFTs, allowing them to receive substantial returns on their time and effort invested in the game. HIM's economic system will actively balance player payments and profits.

It is worth noting that HIM aims to encourage players to pay for the gaming experience and content by providing high-quality gameplay and artistic content. From this perspective, HIM does not solely rely on the player's potential for revenue to attract and retain players, but rather attempts to create a more balanced and sustainable economic model that considers both player revenue and game experience and content quality. This is also a more comprehensive and complex model, which has the opportunity to provide new ideas for the economic model design of Web3 games.

4. Finale

The ultimate goal of HIM is to start from AI Boyfriend, AI Girlfriend and AI pets, and build a anime virtual human universe that can give many people strength and companionship. In addition to the first product HIM, the AI Girlfriend game HER is also making synchronous efforts. At the same time, they also hope to use excellent AI virtual human products to provide each user with a dedicated, knowledgeable, and forever existing virtual human partner. Simultaneously record the bits and pieces of each emotional story.

The HIM team believes that in the near future, everyone will have their own AI virtual human partners, and whether this will eventually become a universe they don't know and may not be important. Because if at that moment when you are either sad or lonely, it would be cool to have an additional "cheer" from this virtual friend on your phone, even if the power is only a little bit strong?

The images are all under development content and do not represent the final effect

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