WotC Hasbro CEO optimistic about AI in D&D and MTG’s future

overgeeked

B/X Known World
Right! I meant actually act on it to follow its advice, but you hit the problem - the AI will have to keep spitting out the benefits of treating people with respect while being specifically asked not to. Even I, who believe it to be mathematically true that everybody wins when everybody wins, can't say for sure that an AI will come to that conclusion if humans don't want it to.
We could have easily incorporated Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics into these “AI” programs, but if we did, then they wouldn’t have been able to perform their basic tasks. They were built to replace human labor under capitalism. The mere existence of these “AI” programs causes harm to some humans. That’s the nature of capitalism. Expecting ethics from capitalists is like expecting a chair to roll over and play dead on command.
 

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FitzTheRuke

Legend
We could have easily incorporated Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics into these “AI” programs, but if we did, then they wouldn’t have been able to perform their basic tasks. They were built to replace human labor under capitalism. The mere existence of these “AI” programs causes harm to some humans. That’s the nature of capitalism. Expecting ethics from capitalists is like expecting a chair to roll over and play dead on command.
Yup. I agree with you 100%. I also agree that AI isn't remotely as impressive as everyone seems to think. (Or more precisely, it's very impressive for what it is - which isn't what most people think that it is).
 



FrogReaver

As long as i get to be the frog
Yup some of the pro WotC posters are saying what he did is illegal.

It's not. It's a not even a civil matter let alone illegal. It's a screw up in the distribution chain. WotC sells their product to a distributor retailers sources it from them.

Release dates aren't exactly legally binding although WotC can do what they like to distributors that break release dates in terns of supplying them.
Depends. Fraud and conspiracy to do so would generally be illegal (so conspiring with a buddy to seemingly make a mistake for your benefit at the expense of the retailer/manufacturer). no evidence available to us that this is what happened, but if it was then that would likely illegal.
 

Charlaquin

Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
Why does every thread about the practical applications of a technology that is definitely coming anyway always get drowned in doomsaying and proselytizing. Some of us would actually like to discuss this stuff.
Let’s say, hypothetically, there was a new technology that you genuinely believed posed an existential threat to humanity. Would you not take every possible opportunity to try to persuade anyone who would listen of its dangers? Would you not make as much noise about it as possible in hopes of making your concerns impossible to ignore? Would you ever be content to just stay silent while people who didn’t see the danger discussed it?

To answer your question, this happens because many of us genuinely believe that AI is harmful enough to warrant what you call doomsaying.
 


Zardnaar

Legend
Depends. Fraud and conspiracy to do so would generally be illegal (so conspiring with a buddy to seemingly make a mistake for your benefit at the expense of the retailer/manufacturer). no evidence available to us that this is what happened, but if it was then that would likely illegal.

Pure speculation though no evidence and once again not on WotC to enforce with corporate goons. That's a law enforcement thing if WotC lays a complaint. It's about probably a civil matter cops woukd likely laugh even if they laid a complaint.
 

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