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3·10 days agoThey wrote the script for the final episode of Dungeons and Dragons, but never made it.
You can read the script here: https://thescriptsavant.com/tv/Dungeons_&_Dragons_3x99_-_Requiem.pdf
And see a fan remake of it (with the original voice actor for Sheila) here: https://youtu.be/m1_6SeRRflo
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Could be Ghost is what you’re looking for: https://ghost.org/
The Neverending Story. Beautiful story and a deep musing on why humans need fantasy and storytelling.
I’ll share my favourite part. Gmork the werewolf has revealed that, when a creature from the magical world Fantastica falls into the Nothing, it emerges in the real world as a lie.
“When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. That’s why I sided with the powerful and served them - because I wanted to share their power.”
“I want no part in it!” Atreyu cried out.
“Take it easy, you little fool,” the werewolf growled. “When your turn comes to jump into the Nothing, you too will be a nameless servant of power, with no will of your own. Who knows what use they will make of you? Maybe you’ll help them persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them. Yes, you little Fantastican, big things will be done in the human world with your help, wars started, empires founded. . .”
For a time Gmork peered at the boy out of half-closed eyes. Then he added: “The human world is full of weak-minded people, who think they’re as clever as can be and are convinced that it’s terribly important to persuade even the children that Fantastica doesn’t exist. Maybe they will be able to make good use of you.”
LLMs as we know them now are absolutely going to disappear. There won’t be nice free text interfaces to models with trillions of parameters. That will seem obscenely extravagant.
n LLM is fantastically expensive to run: OpenAI makes a loss of over 10 billion dollars per year, and loses money even on its highest-oaying customers.
There’s a reason why Anthropic and OpenAI were competing to sell their war-crimes-as-a-service to the Department of War. Private investment is starting to dry up and the Pentagon is one of the few places with the sort of money an LLM needs to keep alive.
Using generative AI is an extremely inefficient way to do most of the things the world uses it for at the moment. It only appears efficient because the AI companies are giving it away for free and eating the loss, burning through capital as fast as they can.
What will be left? Small local models that will go out of date quickly since they won’t be continuously retrained. Still ok for writing boilerplate code and such, but not the thing that seems like it can replace every job on the planet. Generative AI will be seen as a much more limited tool.
Data centers that could be useful for lots of SaaS tasks that don’t involve running supercomputer GPUs at full pace 24 hours a day so they fail and need to be replaced like vacuum tubes in a 1950s computer.
A countermovement called something like “slimline productivity” where doing stuff without AI becomes trendy. No need to spend so much on AI, just get your employees to do it by hand! Cheaper, more reliable, more human! After a few years everything is advertising itself as “slimline”.
An enormous amount of work for software engineers who know how to work without AI, debugging the terrible AI-generated code that we’ve flooded the world with… if anyone can pay for it.