MURD&D

For fun, I adding another experiment to murd.ai: MURD&D. Obviously, neither the 1B nor the 280M model can just prompt their way to an epic, interactive adventure. Before Mr. But Actually appears — I know there are much better and cheaper ways to build emergent text adventures, plus if you really want to see how to do this, ping Hilary Mason and get on the wait list for Hidden Door’s very cool AI emergent game. It’s a delightful and very approachable experience and I think an exciting exploration of what’s coming.

But.

It’s pretty surprising to me that 1B — or, hell, 280M — un-fine-tuned tokens and less than 1K of context running in a browser can get as much right as they do. Small models are getting better quickly, plus with WebGPU coming to browsers everywhere — plus whatever access to local models browser vendors add in — it’s going to be very exciting what purely local web solutions can start doing.