Script Kiddie Prayer
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Our Father, who 0wnz heaven, j00 r0ck!
May all 0ur base someday be belong to you!
May j00 0wn earth just like j00 0wn heaven.
Give us this day our warez, mp3z, and pr0n through a phat pipe.
And cut us some slack when we act like n00b lamerz, just as we teach n00bz when they act lame on us.
Please don't give us root access on some poor d00d'z box when we're too pissed off to think about what's right and wrong, and if you could keep the fbi off our backs, we'd appreciate it.
For j00 0wn r00t on all our b0x3s 4ever and ever, 4m3n.

GDC AI Rountable
This roundtable was not as popular as the "By The Book" roundtable, and was billed as a "general interest" discussion. The first topic participants discussed the "state of the industry". One question raised early in the discussion was: is the development of AI in games was stagnating? The consensus being that no, it was not, but it may appear to be because the focus of AI programmers was now more on providing a service to the game, than creating AI technology for technologies sake. It was agreed that "fun" came first, and their was no point creating ultra smart AI that dished out one humiliating, crushing defeat after another.

It was observed that the illusion of intelligence was often more important than intelligence itself, and that other elements of the game, such as audio and animation could often contribute more obviously to creating this illusion than the AI itself.

The conversation moved on to more technical issues later half of the discussion, though nothing particularly groundbreaking was mentioned until one participant dropped the bombshell that his company was currently developing an AI hardware solution aimed at the consumer market, and would have a demo "soon".

I spoke to him in private after the talk. He told me that they would be manufacturing a chip and expected the cost to be ~$20 / unit. His company aims to sell this chip to graphics card and motherboard manufactures as an added-value component, rather than selling a PCI (or whatever) expansion card direct to the consumer.

Although I was impressed from a technical standpoint, I have always doubted the commercial viability of an ai-acceleration hardware device, and his business plan did nothing to dissuade me of this opinion.