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Checkmate, ChatGPT: AI schooled by 50-year-old Atari

June 11, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The vanquisher? Not a grandmaster, but a gaming console that was collecting dust when the internet was still a twinkle in a computer scientist’s eye: the Atari 2600.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: artificial intelligence, atari, chess

This AI-generated video shows how easy it is to deceive people right now

June 8, 2025 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

A brief, eye-opening AI-generated video has been released by filmmaker Travis Bible to highlight just how easy it is to deceive and scam people online.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: ai, artificial intelligence

The ENnies revise their AI policy after backlash

January 31, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Last week there was backlash against The ENnies for accepting AI content.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: artificial intelligence, ENnies

TTRPG awards The ENNIES criticised for accepting AI content

January 23, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The ENNIES, independent since 2019, are a prestigious TTRPG Award, which has been hosted at Gen Con since 2002.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: artificial intelligence, ENnies

Short film: Sileo – about AI and identity

January 5, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sileo is an 8-minute animation about AI and identity. Our main character is GEFF 325520-BD and the world only has AIs.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: animation, artificial intelligence, short film

Learning to play 4,000 board games (and AIs are learning from those too!)

December 11, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The paper also describes the ancient game as “really old version of backgammon”.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: artificial intelligence, board games, history

AI has just taken us one step closer to decoding the secret language of dogs

June 6, 2024 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix Leave a Comment

Researchers have made a breakthrough by harnessing the power of AI models trained on human speech to essentially decode the secret language of dogs – and thanks to a recently published study, we can share the results!

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: ai, artificial intelligence

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #248

March 16, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Huge RPG sale to help a developer! Plus, Critical Role playtests, D&D AI news, and new releases!

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: artificial intelligence, chris cocks, Cubicle 7 Entertainment, Dungeons & Dragons, routinely itemised, wizards of the coast

What would happen if we sacrificed a year of entertainment budgets to solve all our problems? I asked an AI

February 22, 2024 by Bronwen Winter Phoenix 1 Comment

I read yesterday that The Joker’s total movie budget was a humble $200million, and it got me pondering. If you’d like to discover where that pondering went, bear with me as I have a bit of a pointless ramble and devil’s advocate with myself below – with added ChatGPT. Preamble over, this ponder initially caused […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: artificial intelligence

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #236

December 23, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

It’s a big weekend. Are you ready? This blogger is not, but he’s used to that feeling! Here’s the festive RPG news.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: artificial intelligence, Dungeons & Dragons, routinely itemised, wizards of the coast

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