Hi all, new here. Wanted to introduce myself and a project I’ve been working on, partly because this seems like the community most likely to tell me where I’m wrong. I’m building Urd, a declarative schema language for interactive worlds. The short version: you author .urd.md files (Markdown with YA…

[image] Urd: What does a machine need to reliably execute an interactive world without hallucinating the rules. I don’t know, the current IF systems seem to be doing it pretty well, and without the need for AI. I’m not sure if this clarifies anything.

[image] Dan Fabulich: (And then there’s the fact that AI generates slop by design, and this can’t be fixed with more training data or faster GPUs .) Ehhh… “they’re trained to predict the next word” isn’t the deep insight into LLMs’ capabilities or limitations that many people seem to think it …

[image] dfabulich: (And then there’s the fact that AI generates slop by design, and this can’t be fixed with more training data or faster GPUs .) In recent weeks AI has been solving and proving math problems no humans could in the past. At an alarming rate. But that is besides the point. I do…

[image] Urd: In recent weeks AI has been solving and proving math problems no humans could in the past. At an alarming rate. But that is besides the point. In recent weeks there’s been a very impressive press release and a preprint. Reality will take a few months.

[image] dfabulich: No one but you will use it, and perhaps not even you. You might use it to direct an AI to make games in it, but, if you do, you’ll have wasted your time building the system, because an AI can already make games in existing systems. I would temper this declaration. I played …

What a waste of resources and community time…

Quick update for those still following along (and apologies to those who feel they speak for everyone who isn’t). The Urd v0.1.0 compiler is implemented and passing tests. Five-phase pipeline in Rust (PARSE, IMPORT, LINK, VALIDATE, EMIT), 370 tests all passing, including end-to-end integration test…

I, for one, love experimental systems. The more the better, I say. Of course most such systems tend to die on the vine and not develop much of a following, but once in a while someone is going to make something that has some traction.

I can see a potential role for an AI as an interpreter rather than a parser. Different players use interpreters for various reasons - some are plain text only, some allow font/color customization and might support multimedia. If someone wanted to use an AI/LLM as part of play optionally, it could be…

The first tactile interaction with the compiler is now live on the site under the “Playground” section. Every time there is a new successful build of the compiler, the wasm will be updated automatically on the site. Before I get to a sample runtime or analyser, I will need to tighten up a couple o…

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