D&D General Has anyone seen this Wired article about using D&D to teach AIs?

[Aaron L]

I just ran across this, seems interesting:

Forget Chess—the Real Challenge Is Teaching AI to Play D&D

Some artificial intelligence experts think role playing adventure games will help machines learn to be as clever as we are.

www.wired.com

Also, great to see that they spelled the name correctly with an ampersand rather then the word "and."

 

[DND_Reborn]

Nice find!

I am not surprised and think it is pretty cool. My work with ITS (Intelligent Tutoring Systems) was nearly 15 years ago, but we had some tie-ins to AI, although very rudimentary.

 

[NotAYakk]

The "text adventure" AI gives me hope for having an AI that generates towns, NPCs and other details I can harvest, ideally from provided seeds and constraints.

Or even better, generates a west marches style map on which I can overlay an adventure.

Or even better, takes as input the skeleton of an adventure, and fleshes it out into a west marches style map.

 

[Oofta]

First they came for my bank's cashier, then they came for my car, then they came for my job.

Now they're coming for my role as DM? Where will it end? Time to wake up sheeple and rise up against the machines!

 

[Beleriphon]

First they came for my bank's cashier, then they came for my car, then they came for my job.

Now they're coming for my role as DM? Where will it end? Time to wake up sheeple and rise up against the machines!

Careful about the sheeple.

Wake Up Sheeple

xkcd.com

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

As I recall, the terminator John Henry was being taught role playing games by Matt Murch. He then learned how to roll a D20 and get a 20 every time...

“Twenty.”

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Sounds interesting. Having an artificially intelligent GM for D&D, etc, would certainly be a nice option at times. But I'll be much less enthusiastic when researchers start working on D&D player AIs.

 

[Shiroiken]

First they came for my bank's cashier, then they came for my car, then they came for my job.

Now they're coming for my role as DM? Where will it end? Time to wake up sheeple and rise up against the machines!

I for one welcome our new robot overlords

 

[Oofta]

I for one welcome our new robot overlords

Sure, you say that now. Just wait until bots start taking over message boards and start singing the praises of AI DMs! Hmm. Wait a minute ...

 

[MonkeezOnFire]

Interesting to hear that AI driven DMing is being explored but as the article indicated it is a long way off. AI can understand the structure of language but we've struggled to give them any comprehension of meaning or context. Knowing what the words you're spitting out actually mean is pretty key for any back and forth dialogue to make any sense.