WotC Hasbro CEO optimistic about AI in D&D and MTG’s future

[cbwjm]

I think we would be better off without either at this point.

But then how could we argue about Hasbro using AI?

 

[mamba]

If it took 30 years for half of the US to have them, and it was one of the fastest technological innovation of the 20th century, then we can assume that most others were on the order of 15-20 years.

shouldn’t the others then take longer than 30 years?

 

[mamba]

The technology behind the LLMs that is freaking everyone out is much older than 2 years. It's just that it's only been noticed by the general public for a couple of years.

it’s not about how long it took the technology to get to market, but about how fast it got adopted once it was there

 

[Scribe]

But then how could we argue about Hasbro using AI?

Indeed, we wouldn't.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

The AI has got its limits. For example to create iconic D&D creatures and characters the AI needs previous "loras", a group of files. If you want a D&D red dragon with its iconic traits, then you have to created a lora with the specific horns and crest of D&D dragons. You can't create gem dragonborns with their peculiar horns without the right lora.

And if you want pictures with three or more characters in dinamic poses, then you will need more work.

And some pictures could be mixture of human artist and AI. Comparing with comics the human would draw the sketch by pencil, and the AI would be the ink and the color.

* Yes, I have said in the past Hasbro dreams popular franchises to be adapted to D&D.

 

[Mistwell]

And arguments continue to be made that their effects were net negative. As has been pointed out already though, the immediacy is the difference-maker here. If AI was going to take decades to make such a big impact, this conversation would look different.

Wargames came out about this time after personal computers became a thing.

 

[Mistwell]

I think we would be better off without either at this point.

OK but you compare them to the threat of thermonuclear war?

 

[Scribe]

OK but you compare them to the threat of thermonuclear war?

I didn't make that comparison, but I do put AI at the level of nukes. I do believe we are walking down a road that leads to our extinction.

Now if you want to put Computers, and the Internet, somewhere on that path, that's fine.

I told my boss the other day, as soon as I don't need my phone for work, as I'm in IT, it's gone, and as soon as I can retire, so is my internet, and I'm getting off grid and flipping this trash society the bird on my way out.

 

[Charlaquin]

OK but you compare them to the threat of thermonuclear war?

I was the one who made the comparison, and I would say nuclear weapons are a bigger threat to humanity than AI is. It’s just I don’t think any other invention has posed an equal or greater threat to humanity. It goes nuclear weapons, then a very wide gap, then AI, then another, even wider gap, then whatever other inventions you might think of.

 

[Yaarel]

AI is absolutely a wolf. It’s causing real human people real suffering, at the cost of tremendous amounts of fossil energy, in order to produce torrents of slop writing and “art,” accelerating the global information literacy crisis in the process.

Heh, I am a technotopian and optimistic about AI. But that criticism is kinda fair.