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The inaccuracy was disappointing to me. If the point is historical trivia it's hard when the historical trivia isn't right. I have done some fencing and I notic

The inaccuracy was disappointing to me. If the point is historical trivia it's hard when the historical trivia isn't right. I have done some fencing and I noticed it especially for weapons and armor (though that might be just because that's what I know at least a tiny bit about). Overall it's a fun idea though. I was able to consistently get pretty close in time and location so even with the anachronisms there was enough there.

rob74 2y ago
It's also a bit disappointing how much AI still deviates from what you ask of it. In one case, the prompt is (with spoilers removed): > This star-lit scene in a [...] garden showcases [...] using a seven-foot reflecting telescope, with speculum metal mirrors, in 18th-century [...]. The [...] row house architecture, oil lantern lighting, and his period attire all pinpoint the late 1700s. The meticulously ground mirror indicates the telescope’s custom design that enabled this revolutionary astronomical finding. The result is a picture (with some panning animation) of a guy who for some reason has a pistol in his belt, looking through a complicated-looking telescope that is however definitely not a seven-foot mirror telescope in broad daylight with an oil painting inexplicably hanging in mid air behind him. No starlight, row houses or oil lanterns to be seen.
dkarl 2y ago
It's a really fun idea and a terrible example of applying AI to a problem. An average person with an internet connection is going to do a terrible job of getting historical details right, and the only thing AI is doing better here is generating artistic depictions of the mistakes faster than a human could. This is an example of something that looks like an educational game but has the opposite effect. I had fun doing my round, but I won't do it again, because I think I will learn more wrong things from it than right things.
blkhawk 2y ago
I think AI could actually makes it fairer for the average player because it "smears" the time a bit to a general "vibe". That said I too was a bit annoyed by how it rendered the byzantine empire. I thought Carthage was meant. So i was over by a thousand years.

rob74 2y ago

It's also a bit disappointing how much AI still deviates from what you ask of it. In one case, the prompt is (with spoilers removed): > This star-lit scene in a [...] garden showcases [...] using a seven-foot reflecting telescope, with speculum metal mirrors, in 18th-century [...]. The [...] row house architecture, oil lantern lighting, and his period attire all pinpoint the late 1700s. The meticulously ground mirror indicates the telescope’s custom design that enabled this revolutionary astronomical finding. The result is a picture (with some panning animation) of a guy who for some reason has a pistol in his belt, looking through a complicated-looking telescope that is however definitely not a seven-foot mirror telescope in broad daylight with an oil painting inexplicably hanging in mid air behind him. No starlight, row houses or oil lanterns to be seen.

dkarl 2y ago

It's a really fun idea and a terrible example of applying AI to a problem. An average person with an internet connection is going to do a terrible job of getting historical details right, and the only thing AI is doing better here is generating artistic depictions of the mistakes faster than a human could. This is an example of something that looks like an educational game but has the opposite effect. I had fun doing my round, but I won't do it again, because I think I will learn more wrong things from it than right things.

blkhawk 2y ago

I think AI could actually makes it fairer for the average player because it "smears" the time a bit to a general "vibe". That said I too was a bit annoyed by how it rendered the byzantine empire. I thought Carthage was meant. So i was over by a thousand years.