I made the mistake of downloading the Sphere of Procrastination during the workweek and lost half a day to it.
Makes me wonder again, as I and others have before, about the difficulty threshold of making a computer game which is customized live on the fly to adapt itself to each player. How good would the customization have to be before having access to the game became a serious infohazard?
With a camera feed on the user (e.g. from hacking the webcam) you could get eye tracking, pupil dilation, and heartrate. That’s a lot of insightful info to work with.
Ah yes, I was imagining an unaligned AI (or machine learning model controlled by unethical game publishers) doing this secretly in order to manipulate people, driving engagement and in-app spend, etc.
I made the mistake of downloading the Sphere of Procrastination during the workweek and lost half a day to it. Makes me wonder again, as I and others have before, about the difficulty threshold of making a computer game which is customized live on the fly to adapt itself to each player. How good would the customization have to be before having access to the game became a serious infohazard? With a camera feed on the user (e.g. from hacking the webcam) you could get eye tracking, pupil dilation, and heartrate. That’s a lot of insightful info to work with.
I wonder. To some extent I think knowing that such adjustments were happening would degrade the experience, but I don’t know how much.
Ah yes, I was imagining an unaligned AI (or machine learning model controlled by unethical game publishers) doing this secretly in order to manipulate people, driving engagement and in-app spend, etc.
I think that in today’s age it is exceedingly hard to ‘get away with’ doing this without players comparing notes and figuring it out.