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AI-Driven Game Mechanics in Board Games Will Soon Be A Reality With Hasbro and Xplored (www.cryptopolitan.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An excerpt:

AI-driven game mechanics excite board game enthusiasts, opening doors to more immersive and realistic gameplay. By delegating behind-the-scenes decision-making to AI algorithms, players can focus on the action unfolding before them rather than getting bogged down by complex behavior cards or rule sheets. Xplored envisions a board game landscape that mirrors video games, where meeples and tokens become dynamic counterparts to the traditional controller.

While the promise of AI in board games holds immense potential for enhancing entertainment value, some cautious voices raise concerns about the potential impact on creative workers. Drawing parallels with the entertainment industry’s experimentation with AI-written scripts amid labor strikes, some fear that an AI-driven approach could lead to unemployment and obscurity for board game designers. Having previously flirted with the tech trend of NFTs, Hasbro is not immune to the allure of Silicon Valley’s latest golden geese, including Kickstarter and blockchain.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By delegating behind-the-scenes decision-making to AI algorithms[...]

This line is a bit confusing, because this doesn't sound like it requires an "AI" in the LLM sense, it sounds like a few if-statements.

I would be curious to see how exactly an LLM could be integrated into a board game, but for that - as always - I'll be keeping an eye on the indie space.

There's no chance a corporation like Hasbro will do anything more than slapping the "AI" label on it and letting the shareholder dollars to roll in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

An LLM is a specific type of AI, and honestly one that's a useless novelty at best and the death of information on the internet at worst. Machine learning has been used in chess for literal decades before LLMs, is Stockfish "a few if statements"?