Goblins are the only thing holding back the AI Takeover: Using Cloud Foundry and Dungeons & Dragons
Submitted to Cloud Foundry Day NA 2024 on . Rejected.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- Session Presentation (25 minutes)
Abstract, as submitted
Is AI really a substitute for humans? What better way to answer that question than having AIs play a Dungeons & Dragons dungeon master? D&D follows an intricate, yet ambiguous set of rules, requires constant creativity and unexpected imagination, empathy, and playfulness. Coté has developed a sort of Turing test that uses a handful of D&D scenarios to test how human AIs can act: things like how it DMs a goblin ambush, role plays generic tavern encounters, and creates interesting open-ended adventures and world-building. More than benchmarking, this is an excellent way to learn how to create prompts, to understand what AIs are, and pretend like you’re working which you’re having fun playing games. It's also a good way to explore what the basics and best practices of creating and maintaining AI-based apps. To go beyond the limits of public generative AI models, this talk will build the needed generative AI apps on Cloud Foundry. We'll also do a comparison between AI on Cloud Foundry, ChatGPT, Gemini, and others.
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Thanks for considering our talk!
Michael Coté & Nick Kuhn will give this talk together.
While I haven't used Cloud Foundry yet, you can see my ongoing experimenting with this idea here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk_5VqpWEtiWbS-AHbk6WxgMfnpYaIx3g
Also, here some examples of my past talks, including one from last year's Cloud Foundry Day: https://cote.io/speaking/
Nick has been working on getting AI setup in the Tanzu Application Service for awhile now: he even has a home lab setup!
Also, if this talk is not of interest, we'd love to chance to speak at this event and would be happy to come up with another talk.