Hello!

Correspondent ‘Troilus’ sent me this link that shows yet another amusing, quite intriguing use of Artificial Intelligence.

It’s a short video by a specialist whose hobby is making and painting miniatures, and then using them in tabletop war games. They sound a lot like D&D gaming — rolling dice is involved. His handiwork looks great to me.

‘Medieval Wargamer’ talks about the conversion of his miniatures into moving armies that clash in full dimensional action. They still look exactly like his clever miniatures, which I find really charming. But from where does his AI program ‘learn’ to separate, group and move his toy soldiers in such complex ways? They look very much like movie scenes … familiar movie scenes, sometimes.

Can I assume that the AI program must source and sculpt its action from costume pictures, from which it generates its own versions?  The protest is that all those sourced movies are intellectual property being raided without compensation, right?  Or would the AI defense be that all art is copied from existing models, and AI just does it more efficiently?

No doubt about it, Medieval Wargamer’s little scenes are really captivating.

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson