Nathaniel Whittemore

but also integrating some of those AI tools.

The two places that we built Google's AI models into this were first, the generated images that come up with each scenario and story.

You can see here that even though this looks like it might've been pulled from a 15th or 16th century painting, the fact that it is labeled with the same name as the scenario gives away that it was generated on the fly.

And also for this game, rather than having a choose your own adventure style, prescriptive and limited set of scenarios, it's all generated on the fly.

For example, when you discover absolute proof that the Medici family is illegally smuggling Turkish alum into Florence, thus bypassing the Pope's heavy tariffs, and you decide to return it to the Medici as a quiet gesture of loyalty, what happens next is again generated on the fly.

Returning the salt-stained ledger to the Medici was met with a heavy purse of gold and a cold nod from Piero the Unfortunate.

The Medici use the records to systematically dismantle the Sforza-backed trade guilds, pushing your reputation with the ruling family to its absolute peak.

However, your blatant favoritism has not gone unnoticed.

The Sforza now view you as a Medici creature, and the Borgia in Rome have begun intercepting your personal couriers, sensing that the information broker of Florence has finally picked a side.

Now, there's a whole bunch else to the game where you can use tools, make bribes, see where you stand with different factions.

It's actually a pretty fun game.

But the bigger point, of course, for our purposes, is that we were able to build this thing from conception to execution in honestly barely any time at all.

There will be a link to the game Republic of Lies that you can go check out from the show notes.

If you've been listening to the AI Daily Brief this year, you'll have heard me say a number of times that it seems to me that Google's unique opportunity is taking advantage of this wide multimodal capability and this huge array of different tools to really create differentiated and integrated capability sets.

I had a ton of fun building this complete experience from concept to research to cinematic video overview to YouTube page to companion website to companion AI-driven game in the course of just a couple of hours.

Hopefully this inspires you to think about what you can build.

And big thanks to Google for partnering on this episode.

For now, that is going to do it for today's Operator's Bonus Edition of the AI Daily Brief.

Thanks for listening or watching as always.

And until next time, peace.