Game AIs

by on March 30, 2023 at 12:01 am
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The very best AIs are nearly indistinguishable from normal humans. I’ve seen some pass the old Turing Test without actually being sentient in the way that cybernetic intelligences actually recognize it. I didn’t know it at first, but the characters Red and me were pulling out of games were on that level. We were doing our best to build real people that did the things they did in the games, and we were succeeding. They weren’t sentient. Not when we pulled them out. But the fact that I tended to just leave them on meant they had a lot of time to interact with me, my friends, and themselves. I didn’t notice when the first one woke up. Or the second. But the Cybernetic Council was watching in real time, and they were not so easily fooled as I.

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Game AIs

by on March 29, 2023 at 12:01 am
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I absolutely had the attention of the Cybernetic Council, though I had no clue they were watching me. The thing is that the more you interact with an AI, the greater the chances that it will wake up. This is still a very rare thing you understand, but human interaction increases the chance. And the more interaction you have, the more the chance goes up. Now I interacted with these characters a lot. And I didn’t treat them like dumb AI servants. I treated them like the real life version of their character. And I left them turned on all the time, so they were interacting with each other as well. I basically started up a cybernetic incubator without knowing it, and left it on to see what would happen. The cybers were absolutely monitoring the situation.

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BattleTech Demo Army

by on March 28, 2023 at 12:01 am
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This is my BattleTech House Steiner Army, painted with the Army Painter Metallic Colours Paintset. I am a big fan of the paints by the way, and absolutely recommend them to people.

I will be running my first BattleTech Alpha Strike demo at Gamez & More on Friday April 7th at 5PM, in the strip mall across from Silver Lake Shopping Center. Come on over if you want to see this and other armies with your Mark One Eyeball.
https://pryderock.substack.com/p/alpha-strike-demo-army-8ad

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Never Forget

by on March 27, 2023 at 12:01 am
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Never Forget that three years ago we put a stake into the heart of one of the greatest economic booms we have had in my lifetime. Fifteen Days to Stop the Spread. To lower the curve. To save lives. It had many names in time. Never Forget that some States still have not opened back up again. While those States that did are booming. But we are still dealing with a supply chain in tatters, and dozens of other major issues. Bank failures. Increasing health problems and crime rates. Never Forget the world we had three years ago. It was taken away from us by government lockdowns and mandates, not by a new virus from China. Never Forget.

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Jasmine Art

by on March 26, 2023 at 12:01 am
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AI Art is interesting. I have been rendering my own stuff on my machines for a decade now. I can customize exactly what I want, and then get it. It takes a lot of time twisting dials and then hitting render and hoping it works out though. It probably took me between a week and a month to get my Jasmine model to exactly how I liked it. AI Art takes out the hours, days, or more of preparation time, and replaces it with a scattergun approach. I spent a few minutes putting in some text prompts saying what I was looking for, and asked the AI engine to give me some samples. Night Cafe Studio sent me around a hundred, and I sorted them down to one that I liked. Jasmine looks like she is done with someone’s crap. Probably Jack. Jack can be a pain in the butt.

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