Roblox is working on generative AI tools

Semi- supervised learning approach uses manually labeled training data for supervised learning and unlabeled data for unsupervised learning approaches to build models that can make predictions beyond the labeled data by leveraging labeled data. Users can develop games and experiences through Roblox Studio, which brings people together through the Roblox community. It’s an immersive 3D communications experience that the company will open source for its creator community.

With a possible explosion of devices in AR and VR, Sturman said the company feels very well prepared to move to new platforms. He said Roblox has grown from 36,000 servers in 2021 to 135,000 servers now, or four times as many. “We also have a parallel effort to help people that are completely new to coding,” Corazza says. Both of those functions might sound familiar to you if you’ve experimented AI chatbots — GPT-3 can already create functional code snippets based on prompts. Corazza stated that while the company does not always suggest a perfect code, the environment that the platform created is a natural place to play around, discover new things, and produce imperfect, generative test cases.

Revolutionizing Creation on Roblox with Generative AI

What we have already started to see through internal prototypes is that specialized generative AI tools can not only accelerate creator productivity, but can significantly drop the technical skill needed to bring ideas to life. Generative AI (GenAI) is a type of Artificial Intelligence that can create a wide variety of data, such as images, videos, audio, text, and 3D models. It does this by learning patterns from existing data, then using this knowledge to generate new and unique outputs. GenAI is capable of producing highly realistic and complex content that mimics human creativity, making it a valuable tool for many industries such as gaming, entertainment, and product design. Recent breakthroughs in the field, such as GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) and Midjourney, have significantly advanced the capabilities of GenAI. These advancements have opened up new possibilities for using GenAI to solve complex problems, create art, and even assist in scientific research.

Our goal with all of this is to enable everyone, everywhere to bring their ideas to life and to vastly increase the diversity of avatars, items, and experiences available on Roblox. AI for us isn’t just about creation, it’s also a much more efficient system for ensuring a diverse, safe, and civil community, at scale. As we begin to roll out new voice features, including voice chat and Roblox Connect, the new calling as your avatar feature, and APIs announced at RDC, we face a new challenge—moderating spoken language in real time. The current industry standard for this is a process known as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), which essentially takes an audio file, transcribes it to convert it into text, then analyzes the text to look for inappropriate language, keywords, etc. To enable everyone on Roblox to have a personalized, expressive avatar, we need to make avatars very easy to generate and customize. At RDC, we announced a new tool we’re releasing in 2024 that will enable easy creation of a custom avatar from an image or from several images.

Model and property release requirements for generative AI content depicting people.

Warner spent decades in tech, cofounding the business that evolved into Nextel before he oversaw the past few elections from his perch as Intel chair, where he saw foreign intrusion firsthand. While he applauds Google’s first step toward protecting the public against inflammatory AI-generated nonsense, he says it falls woefully short. But many politicians haven’t gotten the post-fact memo, which is why most lawmakers are praising Google’s recent announcement that it will require disclosure of “synthetic,” AI-generated content in political ads. Furthermore, these artificial images may also be used for didactic purposes, instead of using real images – thus removing any possible privacy concern for patients. There will be no need to struggle in finding the right background, with objects, mountains and stuff like that in the right positions, since we will just sketch them in the place they need to be. Moreover, any kind of copyright infringement will be solved by the possibility of creating new images instead of reusing them.

On the other side, 85 percent of Democrats think former president Donald Trump is guilty of interfering with the 2020 election. Now that we have some (basic) knowledge about GANs, it is useful to understand why such tools are important nowadays. Reporting some of the examples mentioned by Musiol is useful in this direction. While this second example is probably more sophisticated than the previous one, the basic concepts are the same, as well as the mathematical tools and the algorithm behind this “magic”. Kilar’s experience could benefit the company in those endeavors, as well as the challenges that arise from catering to different audience demographics from a single platform. Additionally, stock-based compensation and depreciation and amortization totaled a combined $497 million during this period.

Yakov Livshits
Founder of the DevEducation project
A prolific businessman and investor, and the founder of several large companies in Israel, the USA and the UAE, Yakov’s corporation comprises over 2,000 employees all over the world. He graduated from the University of Oxford in the UK and Technion in Israel, before moving on to study complex systems science at NECSI in the USA. Yakov has a Masters in Software Development.

Roblox researcher and Northeastern University professor Arjun Guha helped lead this team to develop StarCoder. These first published results focus exclusively on the code aspect, which is the area in which the field most needs new growth given the relative success of subjective methods. Another way of considering subjective criteria is that the result space is continuous.

This is part of the company’s AI asset-generation plans and its next step is an AI system that can go beyond flat surfaces and create an entire specific geometry that can improve a full 3D model from scratch. Game Beat reported that achieving this is very challenging as it needed more assistance but the team has seen early breakthroughs and become confident to launch. It could very well be that these avatar-based communication tools and generative AI-fueled creative additions are what’ll be the backbone for that next wave of Roblox AR that’ll inevitably come. “I don’t think we’ve figured out exactly how things are working in the AR world in particular. I don’t know if anyone has,” said Tornow. “Heaven knows what our creators will build with those tools as AR devices are coming on.”

The Roblox team discusses how the additions point to where Roblox is starting to flex across platforms, into VR, and eventually maybe AR too. Unfortunately, creators won’t be able to use Roblox Assistant right away, as Sturman said that the tool is going to launch at the end of this year or early next year. While Lyu and other academics Yakov Livshits have called for investments in these counter-technologies for years, Congress dithered. It may not have worked in the past, but that doesn’t mean Congress did anything about it. That’s how Twitter (now X) went from banning political advertisements in the 2022 midterms to announcing it will allow political ads in 2024.

Meanwhile, AI Code Assist allows users to create code through natural language prompts and automatically summarize code to create comments. Corazza stated during Game Developers Conference 2023 last Monday, this is similar to ChatGPT-3 Code Pilot, which also creates function code snippets based on prompts. Creators will be able to express their ideas without highly specialized skills.

What we have already started to see through internal prototypes is that specialized generative AI tools can not only accelerate creator productivity, but can significantly drop the technical skill needed to bring ideas to life,” Sturman said. It’ll also likely accelerate the process of creating new experiences in Roblox. “There’s actually going to be a really fascinating interplay between our creator community today, generating more and more assets, more and more ideas that can help you compose these things more quickly,” added Lim. By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. We also needed a new way to warn those on our voice communication tools of the potential consequences of this type of language. With this innovative detection system at our disposal, we are now experimenting with ways to affect online behavior to maintain a safe environment.

• The output of such a discriminator network can be seen as an error value, representing how much the image produced by the generator network looks artificial.
• Some 69 percent of Republicans now believe US president Joe Biden lost in 2020, while upwards of 90 percent of the GOP thinks news outlets intentionally publish lies.
• Roblox designed Assistant for fluid, collaborative creation via back-and-forth dialogue.
• The first one acts as a generator (e.g. of an image), which is then provided as an input of the second network.
• Microsoft was the first to harness the latest generation of AI for coding, through a deal with OpenAI, which has adapted a general purpose language technology called GPT to power a code generator called Codex.
• At the end of these layers of training, we have a model that’s capable of detecting policy violations directly from audio in real time.

Cem’s work in Hypatos was covered by leading technology publications like TechCrunch and Business Insider. He graduated from Bogazici University as a computer engineer and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School. The addition comes at a time when Roblox’s user base is aging up and the Yakov Livshits company is looking to cater to its slightly older demographic with new experiences. Also coming next year is the ability for developers to sell models in addition to plugins, and a change to buy and sell assets in U.S. dollars instead of Robux, thus eliminating any Roblox platform fees.