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On the art side sure - on the LLM side you need a lot more text to make it work. I was thinking more on the LLM side than on the art side. And even on the art side what the hobbyists are doing generally starts from open sourced models NOT from scratch, which is what the question was about - if...

I don't even think we can have a discussion about this because you're using words in ways that they aren't really used in the field. Sure if you want to go down that route then it has "intent". So does a mechanical thermostat that turns the A/C on when it gets too hot and the heat on when it...

Yup. Robots taking over ala Terminator is way down my list. But a corporation/government deciding to let robots go out and make decisions based on flawed AI programming is much higher up on my list. I'm not worried about Boston Dynamics robots that are being used by police forces deciding that...

That's not intent. That's building better models that can incorporate context better. The model builder in what you're describing has the intent - make the model better at creating hands. They do that through selection of training data, changing model topologies, lots of reinforcement feedback...

No, what I'm saying is that nobody is actually researching giving AI models "intent". It's not a thing that anyone is throwing money at. Even the folks who are trying to build a "superintelligent AI" like the folks at OpenAI don't seem to be doing any practical research in that area, instead...

I've been in AI for over 20 years now. Looking at the entire history of the field it is a constant state of overpromising and underdelivering for over 75 years at this point. Even if it is possible to code a program with "intent" that isn't given to it by its programmer (a thing that is still an...

I mean they could, if they hired people to do it for them and built one from scratch without using any other materials and were willing to spend beaucoup bucks hiring people in developing countries to do the kind of reinforcement training that companies like OpenAI have done. Those image models...

Don't worry about it - I work in AI and the ability to give AI "intent" is so far away it might as well be a fantasy. The thing you have to worry about is always who runs the AI and what they do with it. The AI itself is just a computer program.

Humble Bundle has more RPG bundles going on simultaneously than I can remember them ever doing. I'm not complaining but it seems a bit strange to see so many of them at once.

Ah. I see how you might understand it that way. That's not the way I understood it. But I think I'll just continue to assume that they're adding a single layer so that I can be pleasantly surprised if your reading is the correct one but not disappointed if mine is.

How is "we just added a layer to that dungeon" the same as "fleshing out the lower levels"? It seems like they're just putting in one extra layer, not fleshing out all 5.

That's not how I read the Dicebreaker article - it reads as if they're summarizing the D&D Beyond post: That's the only source of information they seem to cite in the article. (And following journalistic practices that I hate, they don't link to the source that they're summarizing.) Finally...

It's just a summary of this D&D Beyond post from yesterday. So I don't think it brings anything new to the table one way or the other.

Definitely Gamma World for me, even though it's the one game that has been perpetually updated over the years. I still enjoy breaking out and running the version based on 4e mechanics and the version based on 2e still has a prized place on my shelf (the version based on Alternity wasn't as much...

I read it the same way - that they were giving a historical blurb for each adventure, not implying that they were going to be updating the lower levels. Though they'll have to do something if they're going to include Zargon proper as the art indicates. Because there were 5 levels between the...

I suspect they ended up in Mystara partly because they showed up in two D&D products - The Shady Dragon Inn (full write-ups, background for each character - I assume it's as close to "official backstory" as any of them got) and module XL-1 Quest for the Heartstone. The Mystara writers were often...

That doesn't matter. He didn't have a contract with WotC, didn't break any agreements, got sent a package of stuff in the mail with his name on it. At that point the cards were his and he could do what he wanted with them. If they thought the shop and him were colluding on something, the place...

Pinkertons are for when someone you want to intimidate hasn't done anything illegal so you can't call the cops on them. In the US if you get something delivered with your name on it you are under zero obligations to the sender or anyone else to return it if they've made a mistake. You get sent...

Hasbro is a large corporation that will always do what's best for the share price. Just because they say that their policy is no AI art now doesn't mean that they won't change that policy in the future. So being wary of what they're saying and making sure they know your response to it is...

I mean, if he wants to do that the Universes Beyond stuff they've done for Magic include a whole lot of properties that already have licensed RPGs. Some of them have licensed RPGs that are compatible with 5e. Of the ones that they've used for Universes Beyond that don't have their own RPG I'm...