CSC 320 A.I. Blog Spring 2022

            One would never think that Elon Musk's OpenAI company, which created the most dangerous and complex text AI for generating convincing stories -  GPT3 , would try their hands on creating the most complicated 'bot-script' in the world for a real-time multiplayer online battle arena game:  Dota 2 .  Credit: Valve Corp  Dota 2 on Steam (steampowered.com)      Dota 2 is an RTS game (Real-time strategy) developed by Valve (All hail Gabe Newell!) and was released on July 9th, 2013, on Steam. Dota is a legitimate successor to the popular Warcraft 3 mod Defense of the Ancients, which had huge fanbase back at that time. The main premise of the game is to destroy the enemy's base (Ancients) with teamwork and tactics. In a more detailed view, the game starts off with 2 teams (Dire and Radiant) picking Heroes, which have unique sets of abilities and characteristics that can be upgraded and enhanced over the course of the match. There are 3 lanes that can be played, and e

When it comes to new and innovative ideas about artificial intelligence (or AI for short), the prospect of religion and the role of the church is most definitely not the first image that comes to mind for the general populace. Religion and AI have not seen much interaction or collaborative development outside of the usual virtual zoom mass during the pandemic. However, back in 2017, a man by the name of Anthony Levandowski wanted to change that. There was a clear and extremely long gap between religion and AI that never would see the light of day of crossing paths, although Levandowski desired to close the gap between the two, and blurred the lines of what it meant for the two to have such clear distinctions. Before diving into this novel idea, first some context is needed as to who Anthony Levandowski is. Levandowski was a rising star when it came to autonomous technology, specializing in self-driving cars. He was an extremely talented engineer with a stellar education at the Universi