The strange origin of AI’s ‘reasoning’ abilities
- Apr 16
- 1 min read
THE ATLANTIC — In July 2020, 4chan’s video-game discussion board looked much like the rest of the notorious online forum. There were elaborate, libidinal fantasies involving “whores” and “dragon cum,” and comments on how long a gamer had to wait “before my dick can get up for another beating,” as one put it.
And yet, as the gamers discussed such things, they were also making a discovery of significance to the AI industry. Some of them were playing AI Dungeon, a new text-based role-playing game that was essentially an AI version of Dungeons & Dragons.
In endlessly generated fantasy-world scenarios, players described actions like “pick up the sword” or “tell the troll to go away,” and the computer responded with the action that followed.
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