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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OneRedRook" data-source="post: 8938532" data-attributes="member: 35028">Unfortunately, whilst I'm sure there are people in this thread who are both more qualified that me to talk about ChatGPT, and know more than I do about Forgotten Realms lore, it apparently won't stop me from commenting here.The quote above I think shows a significant mis-perception about what ChatGPT is doing. It doesn't need to start with any internal "definition" of objects, actions, etc; instead, it's already been trained on an astonishingly large amount of text, and at the risk of being a bit reductive all it is doing is finding the most likely word to put next, one after the other. That's it.So the problem that an "AI GM" running with something like ChatGPT as a back-end is not that "my character climbs through a window" hasn't been "programmed" as a one of a series of actions that can be taken, leading to the AI GM blocking - I think as long as you're describing actions that fall within what it can "infer" from its data-sets, you'll get an answer. The problem is going to be that it will sometimes start generating text that doesn't align with with what's been generated so far. And that, I suspect, is a much more tractable problem to fix.For example, I asked it: "Can you describe a journey from Waterdeep to Baldur's Gate, including the route taken?". The response was:On a surface level that's not a bad answer, except that it's wrong: for those unfamiliar with Forgotten Realms as I am, Baldur's Gate is actually on River Chionthar; I think the name of the road is also incorrect. (Notably, it's actually not a bad description of the journey from Waterdeep to Candlekeep). The thing is you can just tell it the correction and it will give a better description.So I think this sort of thing has the potential to increase in use and viability quite quickly.As an aside, I did in fact supply that correction - I shall have to see if that correction has affected its global state, or if it was just valid for that specific "chat" instance.</blockquote>

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