Clearly related to the Royal Game of Ur, but researchers looking at a bag of game pieces and pretending that they know how the game was played is absolute horseshit.
Researchers thus turned to a combination of archaeological evidence, historical comparisons, and modern computational tools to reconstruct plausible gameplay.
So they used AI to tell them how the game was played?
I can only assume you read the actual 78 page article and are comprehensively refuting the researchers’ methodology based on your deep well of knowledge on this subject
Modern AI techniques are further aiding the understanding of ancient games. By simulating thousands of potential rulesets, AI algorithms help determine which rules result in enjoyable gameplay.
Man you’re calling me out for the wrong stuff. I am one of the few AI proponents on Lemmy.
I’m triggered by the headline claiming they discovered the rules for a new game when they instead decided to make up plausible rules based on the game pieces that were nearby.
As a professional game designer, I know that there is no way to recreate the rules for a game based on a grab bag of parts - there’s far, FAR too much entropy in the possibilities.
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Like, imagine I handed you a bag of chess pieces, but there was also a toilet miniature. (I just picked something random that’s not already in a chess variant). I know what rules the toilet piece moves with, because I invented it, but there is virtually no way you can guess what the rules for it are. You could, like the researchers here, make up your own rules for that piece, but the likelihood of it being accurate is close to nil.
Clearly related to the Royal Game of Ur, but researchers looking at a bag of game pieces and pretending that they know how the game was played is absolute horseshit.
So they used AI to tell them how the game was played?
I can only assume you read the actual 78 page article and are comprehensively refuting the researchers’ methodology based on your deep well of knowledge on this subject
I did not, hence why I’m asking the question.
Besides, yes they did use AI of some kind:
Did… did you just get triggers by the idea that somebody might have used Ai?
Do you need help? Is the big bad Ai in the room with us right now?
Man you’re calling me out for the wrong stuff. I am one of the few AI proponents on Lemmy.
I’m triggered by the headline claiming they discovered the rules for a new game when they instead decided to make up plausible rules based on the game pieces that were nearby.
As a professional game designer, I know that there is no way to recreate the rules for a game based on a grab bag of parts - there’s far, FAR too much entropy in the possibilities.
Edit:
Like, imagine I handed you a bag of chess pieces, but there was also a toilet miniature. (I just picked something random that’s not already in a chess variant). I know what rules the toilet piece moves with, because I invented it, but there is virtually no way you can guess what the rules for it are. You could, like the researchers here, make up your own rules for that piece, but the likelihood of it being accurate is close to nil.