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This discussion is not about you, or your experience. Your experience is anecdote. Anecdote is not data. Your report of your personal experience may be 100% accurate. But, your positive experiences do not clarify that the operation is actually worth the economic, social, and ecological costs...

A more fair question would be, "Who needs 1,000,000 hands a second, 24/7, 365?" Technical capabilities that are not required to solve a known problem, are not valuable.

Old ones, I admit - my thesis days are a long way back. However... So, newer architectures have produced "exciting emergent properties", yes. I don't argue that these systems cannot handle massively more complicated data than they could in my research days. But, the new architectures do not...

But... that's the point, isn't it? That's even exactly what the video shows - if someone cannot trust the results, you actually aren't great at search! If you return things that don't exist, that's being BAD at search. Especially when you are unreliable, AND several times more costly in...

It is a hot topic, on which people have strong feelings. If I may: Your approach is... a bit blithe? To me, you come across as dismissive, and maybe a touch arrogant, on a topic that many people find terribly important. That's a recipe for cheesing people off. Enter into the discussion as...

Wrong. That is not what I said. I recommend you look again, because you are at best mistaken. Now, are you going to be like that AI, and need to be corrected several times before you accept that you are not responding appropriately?

Exactly. Lanefan, you seem to have lost the narrative - we are talking about a generative AI offering up an answer for a question for which we know, and you even admit that half-decent records are not being kept in any broadly accessible way. The data has not been collected, and so does not...

Do you recognize that the modern tech space has a lot of snake oil salesmen in it? That they will lie to you, either blatantly or subtly, to sell a product? What it is actually good at, and what they will tell you it can do for you, are two different things. What the product is "made for" is...

With respect - you have missed something important. The programmatic action of ChatGPT isn't inherently dangerous. The User Experience Design however, is - on about the same level as tobacco ads aimed at children. It is specifically and intentionally designed to present itself in a...

The issue isn't the agency and intent of the computer program. The issue is the agency and intent of the company that creates the program, who is therefore ethically, and possibly legally, liable for the results.

No, because the information is not available. Nobody tracks all the deaths in D&D games. You cannot squeeze facts out of a generative AI if nobody on the planet has those facts.

You are correct. However, so long as the company who makes it presents it as "speaking" and "apologizing", then "lying" is the word with the closest emotional truth, and is probably the best word choice for impressing the risk on the audience.

I think, once you've stipulated these plot-armor-points, you need to totally rethink how monsters do damage anyway, seeing as this scheme has very little coherence with a gamist pseudo-sim approach to threats. It is outright gonzo for our normal D&D combat structure.

Well, no, it isn't. As was already noted by Gradine above, at one point Morrus cuts the population by a factor of 20, instead of a factor of 2, by dropping a zero. I don't think the entire planet playing the most dangerous game once a month and lugging their kills around in a cart for the...

You may be missing the forest for the trees, by way of being a bit dismissive. We don't render our worlds in 4k super-duper fidelity. There are valid things to interact with that GMs haven't specified before play. The approaches suggested in the thread are fine for elements that the GM has...

West Marches play doesn't kick the player out if the character dies. Indeed, West Marches particularly supports you having several characters, and you pick from your stable the one that makes sense for a given mission.

Yeah. EN World probably skews older than the gaming population as a whole. I think I've been playing for 43 years, or something like that. When the actual effective range is over twice as broad as your available selection, you're apt to get a big stack in that last bucket, unable to...

Folks, this thread needs to stay out of discussion of regulation because that's basically politics. Thanks.

Interesting, but I expect this approach will also change how the party approaches combat, which will change how many hit points they lose in a given fight. I don't know that it changes how fights go in a predictable way, though. With a fixed, never regenerating resource, some individuals or...

The usual cooking maxim is that if it grows together, it goes together. And the classic...