the long way to a small angry planet sequel

You see, there have actually been three D&D movies before. Well, technically, it releases on March 31, but Amazon Prime customers were able to get into an early screening on Sunday, and I made sure to get a seat.ĭ&D has had a rocky path to get to this point. Their boss was more pragmatic: “I don’t care about the details! That was three million dollars of computer time that got wiped! Just find out what happened, and make sure it doesn’t happen again!” Continue reading →ĭungeons & Dragons, the classic role-playing game perhaps most popularized in recent years by Stranger Things, has just released its new movie, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. “Except that doesn’t explain why they aren’t saying anything.” “Sends a better message, maybe?” he said.

“No, but if it was an anti-AI hacker, why didn’t they brick the whole system? Wipe everything?” she asked. “Whoever did it, you’d think there’d be someone on the other end. “I…I don’t know what that is,” Amrita said. Lee: Do your programmers want to talk to us?ĭnept-7: Perhaps my programmers can help you to operate more optimally.

This chatbot looks kind of like ELIZA, except it turns every conversation to ‘operating optimally.’”Īmrita stopped and rolled her chair over to Lee’s terminal. “A virus? It looks more like ransomware if it’s an outside attack.” This is…Did we get hacked? Some AI doomsayer got a virus into the system somehow?” “This…this isn’t even a Unix-type system. “I’m trying to find out, Lee,” Amrita said, clicking away at her own terminal.

“What is this?” Lee shouted, his hands shaking as he nearly smacked his keyboard, getting every third keystroke wrong, trying to get it to do something. All that was left was a barely-functional chatbot that would have already been obsolete before the dawn of the World Wide Web. Under the header that was previously attached to the model were a few recognizable lines of code, but the sophisticated neural network they had painstakingly built had been almost entirely wiped. Last night, they had left the company’s newest AI model, DNEPT-7 (short for Definitely Not Evil Pre-Trained Transformer), humming along on its server on its latest project, trying to parse the intricacies of South Asian musical styles as well as a real human. The programmers studied the screen in bewilderment.

The long way to a small angry planet sequel