Last time, I suggested that the real horrors that AI is going to visit upon the world will be economic, not artistic. As AI improves (at an alarming rate), it’s going to be able to automate more and more jobs, leading to skyrocketing unemployment, depressed wages, and a wealth gap that would make Margaret Thatcher…
I’ve spent three articles telling you why the most common arguments used by AI opponents are stupid. Most are based on a refusal to understand how anything remotely related to AI—including the software itself, computers in general, intellectual property law, and the creative process—actually works. The rest are based on magical thinking. There is one,…
A year or so ago, a game I was playing in had to go on a temporary hiatus because of the GM’s work schedule, so we started talking about what to play in its place. At some point, the idea of a Grindhouse-style game about Disney Princess came up, and after a while that evolved…
