4 Elements of D&D Adventure Design ~ Dungeon Craft
Professor Dungeonmaster explains how successful adventure design in tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) can be achieved by incorporating four critical elements.
The first casualties of ChatGPT and other AI LLMs
ChatGPT & AI is replacing human jobs and making some business models obsolete, leading to significant impacts on companies and industries.
Chris MacAskill Debunks Gary Taubes and The Case for Keto
Chris MacAskill makes his case against Gary Taubes book, The Case for Keto.
Pi: A Personal AI Designed for Emotional Support and Personal Assistance
Pi is an AI chatbot developed by Inflection AI for personal assistance and emotional support. It is designed to engage in deep and meaningful conversations with users
Hollywood’s sexless modern heroines by Echo Chamberlain
The video discusses the trend in modern superhero movies to depict female characters without love interests or sexual relationships, which marks a departure from older superhero movies where romance was a common element.
AIs and LLMs are extremely smart and incredibly stupid
Computer scientist Yejin Choi agrees that AI and LLMs can be very smart, but also incredibly stupid. And that stupidity can be easily identified: AI and LLMs lack common sense.
ChatGPT powered autonomous NPCs in open world video game
The video discusses a project from Google and Stanford that aims to create generative agents in video games. These agents can autonomously live their lives in a sandbox environment with minimal input from the user.
Bob the World Builder describes a better method for creating & rolling random tables
To create a better experience, it’s important to consider probability and use a bell curve distribution when creating encounter tables.
Tristan Harris Testifies to Congress About the Dangers of Persuasive Technology
Tristan Harris explains how persuasive technology creates an invisible asymmetry of power that leads to an increasing asymmetry of power that masquerades itself as an equal or contractual relationship where the responsibility is on us.
Geoffrey Hinton, ‘godfather’ of Artificial Intelligence, quit Google amid fears AI will soon be smarter than humans
Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, considered the Godfather of AI, has quit Google and expressed concern over the potential dangers of AI technology, particularly the spread of misinformation on the internet.
