I keep reminding myself that even to get to the post-scarcity utopia that is TNG, they had to go through a second US Civil War, the Eugenics Wars, 27 years of WWIII, and years of being subservient to space elves. It’ll get worse before it gets better.

Better yet, have your LLM of choice read the book first.

Fair weather friends to AI crack me up.

Rabbit season

Wrenched from the platonic forms through seething quantum foam as the Demiurge’s machinations reach fruition, our custom-made mounting clamps won’t fail you like your precious god.

Part of my job is to write that kind of copy. If you take it seriously, you’ll drive yourself nuts.

Train LLMs on large bulks of data that meet criteria for deletion, thereby shrinking like 100 petabytes to a terabyte, albeit imperfectly. That way, you have a collection of AI bots that you can chat with about all the deleted data. And I suppose the threshold for deletion is, “How disastrous could a hallucination about this be?”

So I work in a creative industry (video production), and have for like three decades. If A.I. can do a lot of the work I do just as well, no part of me wants to continue to do that work. Most of what I get paid for is not “art” in the sense that it expresses some fundamental drive in me. But I do love collaborating with A.I.s to create things that I would’ve never been able to do on my own (and that A.I. would have never been able to do without me). This is where things are going, and I totally grant that greedy corpos doing greedy corpo shit is not to be lauded. But that’s an Ubisoft problem, not a gen AI problem. People are the issue with A.I.

I understand them both well enough to implement them in my projects. I don’t see why people are anything other than excited about the implementation of more capable AI in games. Are these initial implementations garbage? Probably, but that’s just growing pains, So what is it about gen AI that actually bothers people?

The salt runs deeper than I expected.

Is Doom running on the calculator?

Which AI is the RC car?

They’re both A.I. Yes, they work very differently, but the goal is the same - simulate intelligence.

And do you believe paying for more writers will remain a better option for the foreseeable future?

Now that makes sense to me.

So if they don’t hallucinate, have object permanence, and are fun to talk to, you’re all good with gen AI NPCs?

Why would you train an NPC LLM to know it’s an LLM?

Pathfinding was an absolute dumpster fire for a long time. Remember dreading any gameplay where you had to lead an NPC somewhere? Things take time to get better. Gotta start somewhere.