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The dragon design is ok, but the motions are very very stiff. For example, while flying, one expects the dragon body to flex. The body model seems incomplete. TomB

Is there a term for jargon which is being used by an industry and which is recent, specific to the industry, and on the edge of being technical and being buzz words? For example: https://www.activestate.com/blog/white-box-vs-black-box-algorithms-in-machine-learning/ This shows that "white...

Also worth noting: The discussion re: "random" vs "deterministic", while entertaining and philosophically interesting (I guess, to some), is probably a diversionary rabbit hole that is not relevant to the question. In some terminologies, "random" can be "deterministic". See for example...

Returning to the original question: I presume that generative AI includes some "randomization", with complex steps between the initial request and the generated output to constrain the output to "match" input data. Then generative AI really is a "big fancy (semi-random) generator", with the...

(Looking in dismay at a recently dismantled tractor.) Wait, what? TomB

Back in the desert, if I remember correctly, when Elan was dealing with his father. Vaarsuvius cast baleful polymorph in one of the fights. It’s not even a mini-t-Rex while polymorphed, just a small harmless lizard with a lot of hit points. TomB

This is an interesting listen: Problems of what happens when AI consumes its own output as training data. TomB

1E gave Psionics a science fiction feel. "Probability Travel" vs "Plane Shift", "Force Screen" instead of "Shield". Psionics also leaned heavily into the Astral Plane, and had many unique aberrant creatures, like the Illithid, and Intellect Devourers. 1E psionic combat used a lot of terms...

I don’t know enough about generative AI to say whether it continues to process information after new data is presented. AlphaGo certainly was able to learn by playing itself. Whether AI, or generative AI can do more that it was designed to do seems an open question. There are (if I remember...

I noticed at least two problems in the generated image. Many of the creatures were incorrect. Also, the creatures (and other elements) were correctly sized for their distance from the user. Curious that the AI has no validation step, and perhaps a poor sense of proper scale. TomB

What prevents an AI from having its own unique internal state? While probably not describable as "thoughts, emotions, dreams, and aspirations" -- AI process information in notably different ways than humans -- is it not possible for AI to have similar, unique, features? Much of what you...

Ooh .. I just imagined a system where the culture thinks of people having a “life burden” which must be overcome by reducing it to zero before dying. Then a light, unburdened, soul lives effortlessly. Anyway, not much to do with dice. I think negative and positive is different than larger and...

To complete this: the pass stone stick is evidently the result of poorly specified end conditions. From Adversarial Policies in Go - Game Viewer (Under “pass attack”) These are not the usual end game rules and are countered by using pass stones and playing until no valid plays remain. See...

So, what that article says about Go is not meaningful. The following is not true: Looking over the game, KataGo is truly well ahead. The adversary’s stones which are in KataGo’s territory have no hope and can be reasonable described as captured. KataGo’s territory is real, and KataGo should...

Is this really true? For example, Alpha Go has led to a sea change in the play of Go. Many previous sequences have been re-evaluated with disused sequences being promoted and then preferred sequences being shown to be incorrect. Also, could Rubens create a Picasso? Rubens could learn a new...

Yup. That thought follows rather quickly from the initial statement. I did start down a path of trying to understand different ways that systems can be incomprehensible, but I don't have the expertise to provide a clear answer. My best so far is one possible outline of questions to ask: What...

If I may throw out another, possibly illuminating question: How is RNG, plus extensive technical ability, plus having lots of examples, plus an AI to tie these together, different than an actual artist? When asked to create a scene with several elements, such as was done earlier in this thread...

To followup on the issue of bias in AI. This article seems OK. Notably, it has links to other articles which discuss the issue: https://ucalgary.ca/news/law-professor-explores-racial-bias-implications-facial-recognition-technology I'm not endorsing the accuracy of the article one way or the...

Not sure this helps. There are plenty of completely open systems which exhibit complex, unpredictable behaviors. See for example, the Mendelbrot equation, which is the essence of simplicity but which has complex behavior on critical values. The thesis which seems to be central to the...

Also, folks seem to be talking past each other re: the logic of how the AI works. One part of that logic is how the AI is trained. Another part is how neural networks operate, in general. Another part has to do with the operation of the trained AI when handling a particular. This is like the...