hey guys Spirit at the law here I assume that many of you have at least heard of if
not already tried some of the cool AI power tools coming out recently the last few months there's
been quite a bit of Buzz around the progress made in AI generated art with mid-journey and
Dolly especially making the news more recently a company called open AI has been putting out
Cutting Edge text generating Tools in this video we're going to play around with one and see if in
its Infinite Wisdom it can craft for us a perfect build order for Age of Empires 2. now you might
reasonably wonder what a text generating AI could possibly know about Age of Empires but it actually
seems to know quite a bit it can explain with reasonable accuracy what Age of Empires 2 is here
showing the ai's answer to my prompt highlighted in green it's at least able to confidently give
factual explanations though it does imply ab2 has a stone and Iron Age though certainly the
details aren't always perfect in addition to just summarizing things it also seems to be able to do
more creative things as well and that's maybe the more exciting part here it's able to write a short
poem about aoe2 again getting a little hung up on the stone and Iron Age but overall it's
pretty on point it can even do Age of Empires puns saying the game is so old it's positively medieval
likewise it can write jokes telling me that Age of Empire's two players who are getting old should be
called relics which is admittedly a better joke than I could probably come up with on the spot it
even wrote me a brief public apology suitable for a YouTuber which I'll save for a future
controversy as it never hurts to be prepared sending emails to family members for their
birthdays is also going to be much easier I'm kind of joking but it's also a little unnerving
how much of what we're going to read going forward and probably already is generated by AIS
so clearly it's clever and can be creative but still demanding an Age of Empires to
build order out of it is ambitious the AI at least agrees that a build order is important
though so the motivation is certainly there it says they're extremely important in fact
and is the difference between winning and losing allowing you to get your economy and Military up
and running I thought we'd have it try to make a scout Rush build order as that seems like a
pretty classic strategy and then I'll try it out against the extreme AI to see how well it works
first though I needed to know what sieve to pick so I asked it which one I should use for a scout
rush and it suggested hunts that seems like a reasonable choice though its rationale was a
little suspicious citing that they had the fastest infantry in the game that's definitely news to
me but still we'll go with hands anyway and I then asked it for a hand build order giving it
a prompt of the style I wanted and here's what it generated I'm a little worried about the 2-1 wood
to start especially as Huns being down a hundred wood off the bat but this AI is pretty smart so
let's give it an honest shot and maybe we're stumbling on the new meta let's check it out
all right and since we're Huns we're gonna grab
some wood here first as we don't need to build houses
and then do some exploring with our goats
in fact uh looking ahead here I've got only two on wood so I
wouldn't mind if these guys want to chop some wood for a minute [Music]
maybe we'll grab a 30 wet every little bit helps when you're only gonna have two on wood
I'm gonna use lots of waypoints because I gotta be looking at my um I'm gonna be looking at this
build order here okay so we got six on sheet two on wood and then three on gold the three on
gold is weird but I would say it's the two on wood that I'm gonna have to get creative with
I think I have to grab straggler trees here with my first two lumberjacks
as I'm not gonna have enough wood for lumber camp and mining camp and I want the camp for the gold
get in there
now I know it's a little unorthodox but yeah we're gonna have to go with
straggler trees because I don't want those gold miners walking back and forth
I think probably after that we'll get a lumber Camp though once we have another 100 Wood
all right that's on my sheet that's kind of nice and I guess we'll put it here
okay send you guys forward
three on gold it's so weird
uh but you know what I'm gonna trust the AI we're gonna assume it's got this all figured out
and that everything's calculated
all right that's our three on gold and now one on board all right let's just grab our front one here
so obviously the reason that three on gold is uh very strange is we don't really need
gold especially for going Scouts like we're not gonna need gold unless we're gonna try to
you know click up to Castle age or switch to archers which I mean I guess we could do honestly
let's see one on Barry's okay
you know I'm already kind of impressed with this so we just passed 100 Wood again
and right as this guy comes out so I don't know this is
a I'm starting to gain some faith in this maybe don't lose a villager but
all right hang on what's next uh okay one on berries one on deer okay uh right
um okay question are we gonna push this deer are we gonna Mill this deer I gotta ask it
building a mill is the best option here pushing the deer to the TC can be useful in the later
stages of the game but for now it's better to focus on Gathering food for your military units
okay well if the AI says we're making a mail then I guess that's what we're
gonna do just gonna have to make it work so I'm just gonna hope I get enough for a
mill here in a moment it's just as well my Scout is across the map right now anyway
and let's see next we got a bunch on wood okay five on wood
okay more uh that's good because we've been very short on wood
I don't even know if I'm gonna be able to make a lumber Camp here in Dark Age
I had to make two different Mills now a mining camp at a very strange time oh hang on here he is
okay so I could grab my next Spore here although it does say I want five on wood than four and
gold and then two more on board so if I bring the boring right now then when step nine comes
around I'm not gonna be able to get bored so I assume this means the AI wants me to hold off
on grabbing that second board for now we'll just go off our sheep for a while then we'll grab this
a little later okay I need two more in wood I don't know if I got enough straggler trees here
oh hang on yeah I do because oh no never mind I was gonna build the lumber camp but I guess not
um we just need one more actually on wood this is
such a good wood line that's so close to the town center
um so that's our seven on wed so next is four on gold oh man it wasn't for this gold
I would almost believe this is a real build order
all right let's go build our lumber Camp so we did get a lumber camp in Dark Age that's perfect
um probably gonna run out of sheep here soon
so we need seven on gold seven on gold and dark H is just insane
okay you I'm gonna do this afterwards I'm just kind of doing the same Loop over and over
I mean I assume I know what he's gonna do it's gonna be
um archers obviously I think he's pushing deer as well because his score is terrible
uh but we need one more in Gold okay I'm gonna have to lure the next four though
but this is fine because after this guy on gold I have almost 500 gold in the Dark Age
okay these next two have to go on four which is perfect so just bring it in now so that works out
okay that looks like a wood line good yeah
oh no no no
Advance the fuel at nine minutes 15 seconds okay that's a very aggressive time for the
AI which I kind of expected because I'm pretty sure it pushed here foreign
let's see hang on was that her two on board I think that was now we just have one on various
and one on deer
uh yeah you go over here okay and then we grab
this and then it says two Scouts so I guess we just go up to the next stage
and we will put a forward Barracks here or something
yeah well the AI definitely caught up in score so hmm
now the question is am I gonna be able to click up here in a minute okay this is gonna be tight
come on open AI don't fail me now tell me this was calculated
we have 500 food with 15 food to spare wow yeah I'm starting to believe in this build guys
uh hang on why do we have two over here because one of you is supposed to be
on deer whoops okay well we'll send you over to Deer yeah I did deviate
slightly from the build order there but actually not to my benefit that
guy should have been over on deer and she should have been over here
damn it I kind of wish I had houses I would like a little bit of a house wall
I guess we can afford Some Farms
I need a 175 for my uh stable when I go up but these guys are going to be farmers and this is
why it's nice to have some Strangler trees left over I think we can afford this right yeah we can
that's not ideal to have this many farmers obviously because you want more on berries
then you wouldn't need this many farmers but I'm gonna trust in the AI one nice
thing is I do have 27 population that 27 villager Scout Rush right new meta
who's gonna build I think we can spare three gold miners considering we have a thousand gold
and we haven't even hit feudal age yet and let's do our our stable
okay I'm gonna get these again I can't have a little trouble affording my Farms come on
all right you know what really all things considered we're not in a super bad spot
here we're just floating a ton of gold and I guess we'll make our Scouts now
yeah and we have archers coming in
hey and I'm off my berries uh you know what I'm wondering actually we've got 1100 gold
okay hold on I'm gonna ask the AI if I'm allowed to buy my way up to Castle a chair
yes it is important to get to the castle age as quickly as possible in an Archer rush you
should use the gold to buy food so that you can reach the castle age as soon as you have
enough wood and stone this will allow you to build your castle and train the units
you need to defend against the Archer Rush see I think this was the plan right from the
start I think this ai's maybe smarter than I'm giving it credit for I think it had me get all
that gold because it's just going to turn it into like some crazy fast Castle Market play
uh there's two Scouts I guess we kind of want
definitely nice to see that their archers are getting hung up on my
Mill you can keep attacking that as long as he wants
yeah I kind of wish I had my berries but
all right one two three four five six all right well we're going up
all right well now question is what do I do um I think probably a tower is gonna be nice
maybe kind of a weird location for that Tower Let's uh lead them away here
What It Wants let's grab this
is a lot of units everything's fine though don't panic wouldn't mind bloodlines
okay we gotta get these guys out of here oh I lost all my
Scouts and I don't think I'm gonna make any more that was just kind of a waste
oh come on
there we go all right the uh villager distribution here got a little wonky still have faith in the
build order though I'm gonna be leaning on that and that's going to carry us through
that is a lot of archers that Mill is doing some serious work right now
obviously the issue here is this is what happens when
you straight fast castle and it is very punishable
and let's see I don't even have a blacksmith I'm going to make a blacksmith
I almost feel like I need my armor upgrade before I even tried to do anything here
okay and he's running because I just reached
the next stage maybe no he's coming back okay well he almost got my mail
imagine a shame if I lost a mill to the AI
um I do want this armor to come in oh he's coming back to finish the job oh come on man
at least leave me my pride here
ah no you don't
okay what can we afford I absolutely cannot afford anything other than a complete all in right now
all right we're stabilizing though and you know
what I don't think the build order led me that far astray
all right we're just trying to get a little bit of an advantage here I think let's uh
we can take a good fight I think all right armor come save the day tonight's with plus
one armor what I like plus two but is what it is oh it's a good fight
all I can attribute the success to is
definitely not my play this must be the build order it's perfect
and I think we pretty much won this we still have to go through the motions
but I think we've got a bit of an advantage uh as in were Castle H and the AI is still
throwing out nah they're upgraded but they're just futile age archers
um I need way more way more Farms here
having a little trouble uh maintaining our night production not having berries
we'll sort of do that though because then you need really early farms and everything
let's start rating in a couple different places at once and see where we can catch some villagers
foreign
ERS we got some lumberjacks
I think I might even just out of my Town Center here a bit and just try to keep Knights coming out
and you know what just we're gonna send a villager to go heal that Mill that Mill was a real MVP in
the early game uh it doesn't feel right to just leave it out they're burning foreign
I think you're kind of dead here but
and you're responding with this stable okay
[Music] hey I said to repair that Mill
yeah I was kind of hoping I killed it for 25 minutes once I started going all in
all right there we go this for 26 minutes now admittedly
I did ask it for a scout Rush build order and this felt in playing it way more like a
fast Castle build order with a slight detour into two different Scouts but you know what it worked
I actually can't fault it this is kind of creepy how good this build order was
now part of what made it work though to be honest with some pretty crazy stuff like the two on wood
and all the gold I think what made this partly work was just that there were so many villagers
as long as you're keeping all of your Villages working I don't know once you have a market you
can kind of rebalance it out so I think the market kind of saved the day there foreign
that's a pretty good KD ratio
that's a lot of gold collected for sure so overall I have to say that went better than I expected and
for going with the First Response it gave me that was surprisingly good that said I asked
it for some other build orders and they definitely weren't all the same quality with its recommended
Archer build suggesting going futile with only 12 villagers maybe I got a bit lucky on that Scout
rush and that it gave me so many villagers that I could at least work with I'll leave a link to open
AI below if you want to try it out yourself and I'll leave you on this joke the AI told
me question why did the byzantines build walls around their cities answer to keep the Huns out
you can see it has a very literal sense of humor I suppose
thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed the video if you liked it remember to hit the like
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that'll do it for this one though thanks for watching guys and I'll see you next time