David McHugh

It's impressively subtle marketing to lure in the AI skeptics.

But how long until it can wrangle 5 players' schedules so that they can actually meet to play more than twice? ; )

Maybe Hank Green? I can't think of a specific example but feel like I've seen some there.

Agreed! Was skeptical about the Murderbot casting but happily won over. Expected Kpop Demon Hunters to be a gimmicky kid movie but it was quite good. A delight to be wrong about shows lately! 😄

I look forward to introducing my kids to this one! Tackling mathematical thinking (not just flashcards) is hard to find in games for these ages. Great work!

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Jim joins us virtually every year for a chat with the award winners about the state of good learning game design! :D

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Me continuing to try to feed the children, who find an infinite variety of ways for food to end up on floor:

My students and I ran through the various metaphors* for AI and their strengths/weaknesses... Stochastic parrot is useful but they infer that parroting means it can't do anything new, just regurgitate training.

* @leonfurze.com and @annamillsoer.bsky.social had a lot of good ones

So far only ChatGPT passes this exciting new image generating benchmark (Gemini and Copilot's versions were too deformed):

I love this as a badger (UW-Madison) and a teacher of a genAI class. Perfect example.
Missed opportunity by Google. I prefer Heraclitus's take: "No man ever licks the same badger twice, for it's not the same badger and he's not the same man."

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"You can't lick a badger" twice is streets ahead.

I am concerned about the impacts on Gloomhaven (amongst all the other things)!

GenAI Tournament of Metaphors (Public Version) AI Metaphor Tournament by David McHugh CC BY 4.0 Students expand the GenAI Big List of Metaphors Adopt a metaphor, expand on it, and advocate for it Vote which metaphors advance Context: activity debu...

Teaching a class on genAI has been a delight this semester. Since some asked, here's a public version of my in-class GenAI Metaphor Tournament activity and its corresponding LLM (Large List o' Metaphors). I made it OER, so use it if you like! go.wisc.edu/wl16k5.

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It's an appealing idea, but note that Kinser describes herself as a moderate democrat and has a history with both parties. Crawford also appears to be a stronger candidate than Underly. I'm not sure how much we can actually infer from the comparison.

Downloaded! Looking forward to it, in a foreboding sort of way.

Excellent selection, thanks! It'd be interesting to map some games' family trees... Dominion has many descendants (one of my favorite genres still), Pandemic too.

Makes sense, thanks!

I agree! I'm a fan of Dr. Bender's work (and yours). But for common tasks, most people will see ~3% not ~30%, and that's a world of difference. I worry more important critiques lose out when we emphasize massive hallucination rates that people mostly don't experience. Sorry if that's nitpicking.

I went to look up some old tabs to try to prove you wrong (though I agree with you), and promptly lost 15 minutes to my phone. Vivaldi did save my spot on the few pages of my 100s of tabs that I'd actually started reading.

Agreed on the takeaway, but the headline is misleading. This is about it failing most of the time on a particular, intentionally challenging measure. If we tell people to expect AI to hallucinate 30% of the time that won't match (most) people's experience and critics lose credibility.

Which games do should students experience in a game studies program? Favorites, influential ones, historic, exemplars... all are fair criteria!

Context: I'm teaching a class Games & Libraries this fall but also just want to see people's favs.

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Registered, thanks for sharing this! I'm curious to see if this touches on human factors of efficiency and work enjoyment, like the impacts of working on AI-integrated teams, AI for work assessment and/or surveillance, etc. Interesting times ahead.

Thanks! Ha, well put. I do enjoy a good technopanic. Surely THIS time the new form of communication, entertainment, and/or tech is actually making everyone stupid... (said for the last 3000 years) xkcd.com/1601/

Intriguing. Might be a longer answer than a Bsky reply, but what are your issues with The Shallows? I'm new enough to Carr that I don't know a lot about how it's positioned in dialogue with other scholars.