So apparently the Real Dolls company seeks to integrate AI into their dolls and other companies are researching creating AI companions. Here is a more technical and philosophical article about AI robotic companions (sexual and emotional).

Once past the "doing your toaster" part of the first article, there was an interesting discussion about people seeking electronic friendship and the potential for AIs in the future to carry on conversations with humans which is discussed in more depth in the second article.

So of course my brain went to D&D.

Right now, we have lots of gamers who play via Skype, but what if we could run our campaigns with Virtual Gamers?

Not just pornobots tossing dice at the table. I mean the idea that hey, I feel like running or playing Dark Heresy at 3am and boom, I dial up 4 Virtual Gamers on the computer who then become fellow gamers.  

Unlike meat gamers, Virtual Gamers won't rage quit the campaign when their character dies, they won't flake out and skip games, and you can order a personal pizza instead of arguing who's paid for what slice.

Yes, I renamed all of you "meat gamers"

I wonder how soon the Sexbot will come with the "play Xbox with me" upgrade and the "enjoys watching football" app. And if the Sexbot can converse, it could roleplay...outside the bedroom.

What's even odder, is what happens when you go to your DM's house and two of the players at the table are actually Sexbots?

And what if the Sexbots are good gamers?

Any thoughts you obsolete meat sacks?

I'll only allow robots at my game table when they are allowed to vote.

This is also why some people want a full immersion VR.

There have been talks before, even back in the 90s of viable AIs as gaming partners. A few ideas bounced around for AI DMs as there seems ever a need for DMs.

Way back also in the 90s on a MUD I met a AI a friend had coded into the MUD. Did not know it at first as it acted just like a player. The lightning fast response times were the eventual giveaway. Thing was he could only run that one AI at it used up alot of processor. Apparently it learned over time in some way. Responses, rememberd players it had talked to. Places it had been.

A year or two ago ran into a new type of virus that would talk to you like a person on the infected computers messengers. Ran into two of those.

A cybernetic gamer would be interesting. If you set it up as a specialist program to one game system it might prove easier. A more broad spectrum AI will need alot more work to be able to adapt, or coding in its library of games it has expertise in.

That we'd rather game than have sex must say something about gamers.  

I would play in an adventure run by a robot, but I would not GM for a table full of robot players. That just seems a little too pathetic.

Quote from: Spinachcat;857563Unlike meat gamers, Virtual Gamers won't rage quit the campaign when their character dies, they won't flake out and skip games, and you can order a personal pizza instead of arguing who's paid for what slice.

If they are real and human enough to be worth gaming with, they'll be real and human enough to be arseholes sometimes. Or even worse, they'll have needs of their own.

QuoteI mean the idea that hey, I feel like running or playing Dark Heresy at 3am and boom, I dial up 4 Virtual Gamers on the computer who then become fellow gamers.

"You only call me when you're bored and lonely. When I called you at 3am you hung up on me. You don't really care. I'm not gaming with you anymore."

I think you will be disappointed in your desire for sentient slaves.

Quote from: Spinachcat;857563Yes, I renamed all of you "meat gamers"

I wonder how soon the Sexbot will come with the "play Xbox with me" upgrade and the "enjoys watching football" app. And if the Sexbot can converse, it could roleplay...outside the bedroom.

What's even odder, is what happens when you go to your DM's house and two of the players at the table are actually Sexbots?

And what if the Sexbots are good gamers?

Any thoughts you obsolete meat sacks?

If they RP and role dice, no problem with them at my table.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;857580If they are real and human enough to be worth gaming with, they'll be real and human enough to be arseholes sometimes. Or even worse, they'll have needs of their own.


"You only call me when you're bored and lonely. When I called you at 3am you hung up on me. You don't really care. I'm not gaming with you anymore."

I think you will be disappointed in your desire for sentient slaves.

Nailed it. Even R2-D2 was a dick sometimes. Well, most of the time.

If AIs don't have any level of emotion, personal desire, or self-actualization, they will be shit to game with. I've played with people who weren't engaged or interested in what was going on at the table, and even when they tried to feign interest, they weren't fun to play with.

No gaming is better than bad robot gaming.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;857580"You only call me when you're bored and lonely. When I called you at 3am you hung up on me. You don't really care. I'm not gaming with you anymore."

Suspend the process (or the entire virtual machine that it's running on) to disk when it's not in use.  Then the AI doesn't exist at 3am to call you and it just perceives the world as jumping directly from the end of one game to the beginning of the next with no intervening passage of time.

And to think we thought the end would come from Skynet, turns out our destroyer is Sexbot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgaveBEyFq4

Quote from: Ddogwood;857584Nailed it. Even R2-D2 was a dick sometimes. Well, most of the time.

He does look kind of phallic. I understand that might be why he's popular with female fans...

Quote from: CRKrueger;857598And to think we thought the end would come from Skynet, turns out our destroyer is Sexbot.

I, for one, welcome our new Sexbot Overlords.

Quote from: Nexus;857635I, for one, welcome our new Sexbot Overlords.

They're made in Japan, they have strap-ons.