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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2017 NovemberJoshTriplett

About wanting a voice-interactive AI dungeon master for playing D&D.

If somebody could please, please, please figure out a way to have a voice-interactive AI dungeon master for playing DnD, I would be so happy..

That's an AGI problem. And if you constrain it enough to be solvable without AGI, what you end up with is a computer RPG, or a text adventure, both of which lose the "you can do anything and don't have predetermined choices" aspect of D&D.

I would go as far as to say that "DM a Dungeons and Dragons game in a manner indistinguishable from a good human DM" would be an effective Turing test.

An AI runs a Dungeons and Dragons game in a way indistinguishable from a good human dungeon master.

Has this happened?

Yes 36 (27%)Not sure 41 (31%)No 54 (41%)

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