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Dungeons and Dragons, not chess and Go: why AI needs roleplay

Popular Journal article by Beth Singler

Dungeons and Dragons, not chess and Go: why AI needs roleplay, Aeon (2018)

AI researchers who play games in their free time often mention Dungeons and Dragons specifically. Instead of beating adversaries in games, such as chess and Go, we might learn more about intelligence if we tried to teach artificial agents to play together as we do: as paladins and elf rangers.

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