Nationstates AI | Use AI to answer your nation's issues

[Jiangbei]

A python script to automatically answer issues using an AI

https://github.com/Bohaska/nationstates-ai/

Nationstates AI is an open-source python script that can answer your nations issues with your nation name, password and a Huggingface API key (Huggingface is the free AI hosting platform this script uses)

Features
- Open-source, check the code yourself.
- Directly interacts with the NS API, doesn't use a NS API wrapper
- Sane NS rate-limiting, stopping requests for 30 seconds after 30 requests have been made.

See the above github repository for more instructions on how to set up the python bot.

I also made a region to store nations controlled by AI's at Nationstates AI

Example of the AI in action:

[Cancolastan]

Finally, a way to easily farm my pupp- I mean, answer Issues!

[Jiangbei]

Finally, a way to easily farm my pupp- I mean, answer Issues!

Unfortunately, you cannot farm cards with this, as it uses the Nationstates API to answer issues . Using the API to answer issues does not give you cards.

[Cancolastan]

Bugger

[WayNeacTia]

Shame this can't just be spun up a docker container. I may fire it up in an LXC container and check it out though.

[Jiangbei]

Shame this can't just be spun up a docker container. I may fire it up in an LXC container and check it out though.

I don't have any experience with using Docker... I'll see if I can make a docker container for this application.

[Rocain Founder]

Well, this looks kind of interesting, but I went to the github for it, and couldn't make heads or tails of it. Can this be used to create nations of a certain kind (e.g., a very Capitalist nation with high compassion)? Besides an "answer like Trump" nation, are there other good examples of interesting ways to use this? And are there recommendations for where to go to learn enough that the contents of the github are no longer gibberish? (By the way, I'm familiar with python - AI and not python is the stumbling block for me).

Thanks!

[Jiangbei]

Well, this looks kind of interesting, but I went to the github for it, and couldn't make heads or tails of it. Can this be used to create nations of a certain kind (e.g., a very Capitalist nation with high compassion)? Besides an "answer like Trump" nation, are there other good examples of interesting ways to use this? And are there recommendations for where to go to learn enough that the contents of the github are no longer gibberish? (By the way, I'm familiar with python - AI and not python is the stumbling block for me).

Thanks!

I honestly don't know about the AI's full capacities and limitations. You can try it out yourself I guess.

[Vylixan]

- Sane NS rate-limiting capping requests at 30 requests/sec

The NS API rate-limit is 50 requests per 30 seconds. This would go way over that limit.
See https://www.nationstates.net/pages/api.html#ratelimits


Edit: I looked at your source code to see how you implemented it, but it's not exactly as you stated.
The script does 30 quests and then sleeps for 30 seconds, which is not the same as 30 requests/sec.

[The Great Nevada Overlord]

Wouldn't this take the fun out of NS?

In terms of actual gameplay, NS is bare bones. Issues are really the only consistent gameplay in NS.

N-Day and that zombie thing only happen once or twice a year.

[Jiangbei]

- Sane NS rate-limiting capping requests at 30 requests/sec

Edit: I looked at your source code to see how you implemented it, but it's not exactly as you stated.
The script does 30 quests and then sleeps for 30 seconds, which is not the same as 30 requests/sec.

whoops, wrote it wrong, thanks for finding the typo

[Jiangbei]

Wouldn't this take the fun out of NS?

In terms of actual gameplay, NS is bare bones. Issues are really the only consistent gameplay in NS.

N-Day and that zombie thing only happen once or twice a year.

I created Nationstates AI as a fun experiment to see how different world leaders may respond to issues in NS.

I do agree that if you're using the AI to answer your main account country's issues, that's a bad idea, and that's not why I made this script. Jiangbei's never going to be controlled by a bot.

[Jiangbei]

I uploaded this tool to replit.com for an easy way of running this tool, at https://replit.com/@Bohaska/Nationstates-AI.

Don't know how to set the credentials for running this tool in replit?

Try this small script, input the credentials and get a formatted JSON file of them compatible with the replit.com version https://www.online-python.com/9ihCuy8xsv

Edit: Forgot to normalise nation strings

[Refuge Isle]

replit?

?tag replit

[Querria]

Out of curiousity, does this use ChatGPT? Can we customize it using a chatroom so the AI answers according to a list of predetermined societal values?

[Jiangbei]

Out of curiousity, does this use ChatGPT? Can we customize it using a chatroom so the AI answers according to a list of predetermined societal values?

No, it doesn't. It uses Huggingface, and the AI has no memory of previous actions. By default it uses the model https://huggingface.co/distilbert-base-cased-distilled-squad, but it could be changed to another model in the category of Question Answering. This is because question answering AI responses are much easier to parse than ChatGPT's responses, as they only can quote the text, not generate an entirely new response.

Sorry for the late reply.

[Terminus Station]

Out of curiousity, does this use ChatGPT? Can we customize it using a chatroom so the AI answers according to a list of predetermined societal values?

Id like to know as well how an AI learns and votes for policies based on what it knows.

[Jiangbei]

Out of curiousity, does this use ChatGPT? Can we customize it using a chatroom so the AI answers according to a list of predetermined societal values?

Id like to know as well how an AI learns and votes for policies based on what it knows.

It does not do any learning. I do not know exactly how this AI model works, I only made code to connect the AI to Nationstates. I don't know how ChatGPT decides its responses either shrug