Forum Overview :: Are Games Art? :: Um, no

[quote name="Senor Barborito"][quote name="Monty Cantsin"][quote name="Senor Barborito"]This is why it is possible, btw, to create real Turing-level AI for NPCs in fantasy MMORPGs, but not for the modern world. The elements that make up a medieval world + magic + monsters are so far less complicated (and specialized knowledge so much rarer) than the heuristics required for basic functioning today that the Cyc project of Ye Olde Times would have been a success where today it is a relative impossibility.[/quote] But isn't rocket science the easy part, and basic common sense the thing that's really hard? I don't think Ye Olden Cyc project would be any easier than the one with all mod cons. /mc[/quote] I would never, ever find this statistic on my own, but I do recall our AI project lead citing an estimate (circa 1998, again) was that general knowledge has increased by two orders of magnitude since ancient Greece, and that the people of Dark Ages were less informed than they were. That said, it's still a huge pain in the ass, and yes rocket science is the easy part. --SB[/quote]