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That isn't quite how they work - there's a degree of randomness depending on so called "temperature". And it isn't the output that's statistically modelled, it's the next token based on the prior output.

> This sounds a bit like you are saying LLMs are conscious

No more so than OP is implicitly asserting that human art is produced in cleanroom isolation. I don't believe either to be true.

What you're describing isn't bad dialog, it's bad interaction design.

I think your mental model might be of a single session with zero state, and no bounds on topics of conversation outside of the character's backstory. That isn't close to how this would work. A little understanding of how the game currently operates and some imagination, and you'll see how it could be improved further without degrading gameplay.

> those games would be made popular by people breaking the LLMs in funny ways

Because making the game do funny things didn't happen with RDR2, or any other game, device, or indeed humans (there are whole genre built around making people do or say "funny" things).

It seems that you've fundamentally misunderstood art. I wouldn't personally call it "stealing", but T.S. Eliot would beg to differ (as would Pablo Picasso who "stole" that line)

> I want to read something that has intent. That has a purpose. A reason why it exists.

If the "allegories for the LLM condition" angle is accurate, then these stories do. In which case I believe what you mean to say is that you want to read something that has human intent.

Many of the interactions in RDR2 are quite mundane, and despite thousands of hours of (high quality) voice acting, it can become quite repetitive.

I could very much see those micro-interactions being LLM generated, but the TTS would need to be a step above where even the best models are now to come close to RDR2s production quality.

OTOH, I'm not sure how much it matters. Apple products are "designed in California" (which is a bit of a lie to begin with), and very much assembled overseas.

Of more interest is how few units they've pre-sold compared to mainstream phones. I wish them well, but I doubt they'll change history.

Apple doesn’t get a pass just because their contracts are many of orders of magnitude bigger.

It still has Alexa (it has both) but I never use it. I barely use the Echo that's next to the TV!

That sounds more like a time management problem - buy your game, go to bed, and it’ll be there when you wake at 2:30 for your next gaming session. ;)

~You appear to be confusing latency and bandwidth. While they are to an extent two dimensions of the same problem, it’s latency that affects gaming regardless of bandwidth.

More bandwidth will not reduce latency, and gaming intentionally only uses limited bandwidth (notwithstanding streamed rendering, but that’s a minuscule minority).

You cannot defy the laws of physics.~

(FTFY)

I'm not sure exactly which children they're planning to replace all their staff with, nor how they plan to get around the child labour laws.

Is that not down to this? https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem

The creators crying foul of AI are painting themselves into a corner, both literally and figuratively.

What none of them did, however, was “learn” (as the title suggests). They used hardcoded algorithms.

"Tian'anmen"

"Tiananmen"

But then perhaps over time, they somehow attracted people who genuinely are that stupid, and uncritically believe? That demographic is obviously going to be too stupid to critically assess any new evidence either.

It seems more likely to be under the Insult clause of that statute:

> Insult (§185 StGB): Covers disrespectful, demeaning, or contemptuous statements made to or about someone, including public insults.

That's a pretty heavy handed law.

Anyone working in real real-time computing would have a fit!

Actually, there are a bunch of other variables (energy density, stability, discharge current, etc. etc.), so the probability of a technology that improves one significantly without negatively affecting at least one other is vanishingly small. Hence the number of overhyped battery technologies that get reported but never productised.

The few zombie subscriptions I've had have all existed outside of the App store, one that I didn't even sign up for (looking at you Masterclass). I bought a one year gift subscription for someone else, and because it came with a "free" subscription for me (that I didn't use), I git hit with annual renewals until I noticed it on my credit card statement and cancelled.

Yes, I should check those more frequently, but who has time for that?

It rankles that you can can cancel a free trial before it's over with every app exept Apple's. I like the feature, but the double standard grates.

"every day"

Perhaps the author should check grammar while he checks spelling :D (Not the only issue I noticed, and I didn't read the entire article...)

https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

That itself makes me think there's a human in the loop on the bot end.

Yes, the technology has evolved – digital vs analog (partly – for example analog comms here because digital (optical) "isn't redundant" (lol, what?)); higher resolution; digital overlays and effects, etc. But the basic process of a bunch of humans winging it and yelling to each other hasn't changed at all.

This is an industry ripe for massive disruption, and the first to do it will win big.