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(love it! Great Job!)

Is this "AI slop", or the sensible use of AI to make NPC behavior better? What if NPC pathfinding didn't always stink? Wouldn't that be nice?

Isn't Daikatana almost 30 years old by now? Even without "AI" being involved, NPC logic has improved quite a lot since then.

That sounds like some fun emergent gameplay right there!

Isn't "the NPC teammates are too dumb" a pretty common complaint? I don't see a problem in improving them.

I'm not bedeviled by Laplace's Demon (the idea you just described), for much of the same reason. Even if you could know any particle's position and velocity at the same time (which may be impossible), they refuse to consistently exist. So, even if you could know every particle's position and velocity, you still couldn't know either the past or the future.

Was that a wise choice of name? It seems unnecessarily confusing to me, given that Tabs play such a large role in browsers. It sounds like an API for managing tabs, not... well, I'm not entirely clear on what it's supposed to do. Summarize things? Whatever unrealistic thing the people marketing AI services can come up with because the actual use cases haven't really been discovered yet?

The upshot is that the current regime is less likely to survive than the rest of the population.

Then how do you explain the inverse relationship between fertility rates and economic development?

To slide off on a bit of a tangent, why did they go to some professor in Mexico who had nothing to do with the study to explain the findings? It's not unusual, we see that in articles all the time. The reporters go to some seemingly random professor to comment on the findings of someone else's study. Why not talk to the people who produced the findings about what the findings mean?

I once bet a guy $500 that he couldn't do it. One guillotine later and I lost the bet. But at least I didn't have to pay out.

(If you hadn't guessed, this is not a true story.)
(I had to pay his estate.)

Jacob received a miraculous well. Maybe Iran should have been nicer to his descendants?

Meh, this kind of crap is what peer review is for. As long as he learns his lesson I'd be fine with letting him keep going. I mean he's still going to MIT so he's not an idiot.

I mean we all act like he got away with this but he was caught during the initial process of peer review. The system really does work.

We all like to complain about how there's thousands and thousands of papers that are just garbage but here's the thing so what? If the papers aren't doing any harm and they're just sitting out there then it's not a big deal. It's not like we are spending all that much money on any of this crap. I'm sure you can come up with a number that sounds big because we have a 33 trillion dollar economy so yeah you could find somebody who maybe got a grant and did some bad research for a few hundred thousand. But in the grand scheme of things it's not a big deal

I mean think about how much money we waste on other crap. Human beings are just wasteful creatures. And we kind of need to be to keep our civilization and economy going anyway.

It would be kind of neat to see the algorithms for AI hand it off to a GPU or one of the fancy cores on a modern CPU.

But I can't see that really happening because machine learning algorithms requires so much processing power and modern graphics do the same so you just don't have a lot of head room.

Too bad it's an Islamic state.