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The Real Challenge Is Teaching AI to Play D&D

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Re: The Real Challenge Is Teaching AI to Play D&D

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I didn’t realise D&D was this challenging. On the flip side, this is what people said. Forget Chess - Go is the one. Forget Go - D&D is the one.

it doesnt have to be, you can tune a D&D session to suit the audience, such as making it heavy on the board game or card game side

the thing about 70s style D&D is the liberal arts involvement as role playing is really thespianism

the costumes and the soapboxing as people play out thier characters was really something

Re: The Real Challenge Is Teaching AI to Play D&D

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I didn’t realise D&D was this challenging. On the flip side, this is what people said. Forget Chess - Go is the one. Forget Go - D&D is the one.

For humans, maybe it's not. But making an AI that's good at free-form interactive storytelling won't be easy.

Re: The Real Challenge Is Teaching AI to Play D&D

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I didn’t realise D&D was this challenging. On the flip side, this is what people said. Forget Chess - Go is the one. Forget Go - D&D is the one.

To be a dungeon master is effectively to achieve AGI. It’s... not realistic. Current NLP systems have mapped out what language means, and can use that to generate text. But they have no idea what the text means. It requires incredible knowledge about how the world works and an ability to explain its reasoning in plain terms.

Re: The Real Challenge Is Teaching AI to Play D&D

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Of course the article is actually about writing a digital DM not a player. But isn't the main problem with this defining win conditions? Pretty easy to define win condition for chess or go.

Now, I haven't really played DnD (much to my sadness), but how do you win?

edit: I know the answer but I'm making a point with my question

Re: The Real Challenge Is Teaching AI to Play D&D

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Of course the article is actually about writing a digital DM not a player. But isn't the main problem with this defining win conditions? Pretty easy to define win condition for chess or go. Now, I haven't really played DnD (much to my sadness), but how do you win? edit: I know the answer but I'm making a point with my question

> how do you win?

By spending quality time with your friends and having a lot of fun imagining an epic quest?

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