Future resource worth more than oil and we give it away to nestle for them to sell it back to us.

The interesting thing to mention with these tests is they aren't using a fine-tuned model. With GPT-4's multimodal configuration one could fine-tune a system to digest the DnD manuals for all their text and images to give the system a deeper understanding and set of constraints. One could imagine including a lot of rules into such a system.

The article also mentions context window issues where the AI forgets things. You can ask it to summarize important events every once in a while so that it remembers things. (Essentially it brings it into the context again reinforcing the information). The GPT-4 context is 8K tokens, but the API has a 32K token version. If someone was building a DnD dungeon master with the API they'd probably perform this summarization operation automatically with a tailored input.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/HoldenFinn:

Submission Statement: Artificial general intelligence is a bit of a white whale for AI researchers. While those like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking have warned about it's potential dangers, there's reason to believe that it could be reigned in and provide a better future for man/machine relationships by training it with the right tools--and, surprisingly, DnD might be one of them.

Beth Singler, a digital anthropologist and AI religions expert (seriously), penned a 2018 article proposing the Elf Ranger Test -- a kind of updated response to the Turing Test that uses the framework of Dungeons & Dragons to test an AI's actual capabilities. With the release of ChatGPT many DnD enthusiasts have turned to it as a tool for DMing and their character creation. So it's worth revisiting Singler's article within the framework of new advancements in generative AI and LLMs.

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/11txrqx/dungeons_dragons_could_prevent_the_ai/jclbgc2/

The moon going to have more electricity than Earth.

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Sounds like helping or hurting is just a roll of the dice.

Hydroponics to the rescue!

What's the point, we can't even live on Earth correctly.

Yep, 1 pound of beef uses an astronomical amount of water, 1850 gallons per pound! (Source: https://www.denverwater.org/tap/whats-beef-water)

Even if most people refused to go vegetarian, replacing the majority of beef and pork in their diet with chicken would significantly reduce the amount of water usage in agriculture.

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Even just reduce the amount of beef being produced would significantly drop our fresh water usage.

Submission Statement: Artificial general intelligence is a bit of a white whale for AI researchers. While those like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking have warned about it's potential dangers, there's reason to believe that it could be reigned in and provide a better future for man/machine relationships by training it with the right tools--and, surprisingly, DnD might be one of them.

Beth Singler, a digital anthropologist and AI religions expert (seriously), penned a 2018 article proposing the Elf Ranger Test -- a kind of updated response to the Turing Test that uses the framework of Dungeons & Dragons to test an AI's actual capabilities. With the release of ChatGPT many DnD enthusiasts have turned to it as a tool for DMing and their character creation. So it's worth revisiting Singler's article within the framework of new advancements in generative AI and LLMs.

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I used to work for the largest Oil & Gas company in the world and Rolls Royce made a lot of the critical parts for their oil rigs and equipment. I think if anyone could do this it would be Rolls Royce.

World war II had nothing to do with scarcity or resources, for which the atomic bomb was proposed, invented and used. Building atomic science is indicative of intelligence. Using that science to commit genocide is not intelligence.

interesting. so armed conflict and the technologies that it evolved (like nuclear bombs) have nothing to do with resource scarcity and the evolved drive to acquire surplus and control?

You're aware chimp tribes go to war with eachother, right? If chimps won the evolutionary race, they're civilization would have been one giant enlightened progressive think-tank? They wouldn't have many of the same qualities we do?

"Humans are just animals" is a comment usually made to convey the idea that "we aren't so special", or to keep our species' ego in check. I think the comment also applies to hyper-cynicism about our species.

Funny youtube video though, thanks for sharing

Coworker of mine used to weld for them. He's under NDA, but suffice to say there's probably a reason he dipped out.

SpaceX probably would have gotten the contract if Musk hadn't gone completely off the rails the past few years.

Bill Mahr did a talk about this. California has some really wasteful practices especially in agriculture. Like growing tons and tons of almonds. It’s just wasteful.

There are so many things we can do to easily lower water use. I hope we do those things.

Only in the arid areas. North Western Europe will be fine.

My guess: either the Great Lakes region or New England.

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Can't wait to spend 99 Eddies on a gallon of REAL WATER

I'm pretty sure scarcity doesn't cause fascism, racism, sexism, or nuclear bombs. If aliens visit us, this is the reaction I expect: https://youtu.be/7tScAyNaRdQ