One dimension that I think is pretty important is compute cost due to its effect on how they’re used. The chatbots are expensive to run, which means they’re imp

One dimension that I think is pretty important is compute cost due to its effect on how they’re used. The chatbots are expensive to run, which means they’re implemented as request-response API’s that cost money, which means that loops are expensive and they normally don’t do any idle-time thinking. When you play a turn-based game with a bot, that means you don’t need to worry about its reaction time. It’s paused most of the time, waiting on you. A sorcerer’s apprentice scenario isn’t going to happen when you’re single-stepping. Moving to routine use of bots that run continuously with fast reaction times will be much more dangerous.