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Can you show what parts of this campaign were pre-set text? Because I have a suspicion you've not read the article. This is a fully interactive campaign, and y

Can you show what parts of this campaign were pre-set text? Because I have a suspicion you've not read the article. This is a fully interactive campaign, and you can easily set up a unique scenario. I just tried the same prompt, but on the moon. It set up a situation with a secret moon base, characters that were trying to help you get past the guards, etc etc.

famouswaffles 4y ago
Of course he's not read the article lol. or even tried to do what he's saying with gpt-4. If he had/did, he'd know it was bogus. Happens so much on the internet, someone comes in loudly proclaiming some opinion on a product/thing that they haven't actually used or tested.
tus666 4y ago
Nice way to miss my entire point. I don't care if the campaign is pre-set or one you made up. The point I was clearly making is DnD is about much more than the dungeons and dragons. It's about the camaraderie, banter, chitchat, and even arguments, the kinds of things you can meaningfully do, or want to do, with real humans.
- 1attice 4y ago
  You mistake our astonishment at GPT-4 as implying some slight against D&D; you attempt to minimize our astonishment by pointing out facts about D&D that most of use would probably agree to. Yet this does nothing to mitigate our astonishment, which, perforce, is about a machine doing a fscking bang-up impression of a human. This is like observing the world's first aeroplane and saying, "pfft, its wings aren't even flapping. Can't be a bird with out flapping wings." Yes, yes, we know. That is obviously not the point. Someone just invented flight. tus666, I suspect this is an emotional self-management strategy on your part. I'm anxious, too, but, in the words of jwz, you now have two problems, as you are still anxious, and must additionally expend psychological energy on continuous misdirection, whereas I just have the now-standard 2023 anxiety about x-risk. (Oh, and the astonishment. Kudos to the OP for such a brilliant demo of GPT-4)
- dallas 4y ago
  I agree and I even dislike using digital tools for play because it's time spent not in the analog/social world. I spend way more than enough time in front of a computer. That said, we still had fun back in the day as a group sitting around the Commodore 64 playing the SSI Gold Box games which came to mind when I saw the transcript in the article. I even enjoy gamebooks which aren't human nor are they dynamic.

famouswaffles 4y ago

Of course he's not read the article lol. or even tried to do what he's saying with gpt-4. If he had/did, he'd know it was bogus. Happens so much on the internet, someone comes in loudly proclaiming some opinion on a product/thing that they haven't actually used or tested.

tus666 4y ago

Nice way to miss my entire point. I don't care if the campaign is pre-set or one you made up. The point I was clearly making is DnD is about much more than the dungeons and dragons. It's about the camaraderie, banter, chitchat, and even arguments, the kinds of things you can meaningfully do, or want to do, with real humans.

1attice 4y ago
You mistake our astonishment at GPT-4 as implying some slight against D&D; you attempt to minimize our astonishment by pointing out facts about D&D that most of use would probably agree to. Yet this does nothing to mitigate our astonishment, which, perforce, is about a machine doing a fscking bang-up impression of a human. This is like observing the world's first aeroplane and saying, "pfft, its wings aren't even flapping. Can't be a bird with out flapping wings." Yes, yes, we know. That is obviously not the point. Someone just invented flight. tus666, I suspect this is an emotional self-management strategy on your part. I'm anxious, too, but, in the words of jwz, you now have two problems, as you are still anxious, and must additionally expend psychological energy on continuous misdirection, whereas I just have the now-standard 2023 anxiety about x-risk. (Oh, and the astonishment. Kudos to the OP for such a brilliant demo of GPT-4)
dallas 4y ago
I agree and I even dislike using digital tools for play because it's time spent not in the analog/social world. I spend way more than enough time in front of a computer. That said, we still had fun back in the day as a group sitting around the Commodore 64 playing the SSI Gold Box games which came to mind when I saw the transcript in the article. I even enjoy gamebooks which aren't human nor are they dynamic.