(1/24) There's a super great upgrade coming to @SecondLife scripting, that I don't think is getting great attention it should. Before I go on forever about why this is great and will fundamentally change #SL please consider a retweet and maybe a like - to help spread the word. :)
— NeoBokrug (@NeoBokrug) October 19, 2022
Longtime Second Life community scripter NeoBokrug (who keeps the legendary roleplay Wasteland regions running), has a meaty and important tweet storm (above) and blog post here highlighting LinksetData, a much-needed update to Linden Script Language. You should definitely share it with the LSL scripter in your life, but if you're not a scripter, the short version is: It'll make interactive experiences in Second Life much more powerful and persistent.
For instance, consider the Really Needy HUD (a former NWN partner), which turns Second Life into a first-person Sims-type roleplay game:
No, ChatGPT Can't "Write" Code. It Even Makes Up Code That Doesn't Exist.
Fun comment from reader Ravelli Ormstein, spinning off from my post about how full of fail ChatGPT is when you ask it a question you're an expert on:
First, I asked ChatGPT to write a LSL script that would turn on a light when the sun went down. It wrote a nice script, but it didn't work because the AI was using an LSL function that didn't exist. So I complained about it. The AI apologized and fixed the script by using another non-existent function.
This went on until I specifically asked for a script that only used existing functions. The script was usable and in the style we usually write them, with a 300 second timer. The AI kept apologizing for making mistakes until I asked it never to apologize again.
This is an important point, because I've seen some people claim that ChatGPT can write Second Life apps in Linden Script Language (or for that matter, any coding language). No.
Very roughly analogized, ChatGPT is like a natural language version of Google search. So if you ask ChatGPT to write a working script that happens to already exist in its massive database, you may sometimes get lucky with an actual useful response. Otherwise, you'll only get an answer that's most probabilistically coded to appear like a useful response -- in other words, the AI version of Making Shit Up.
Anyway, more fun from Ravelli with ChatGPT, with a plot twist:
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Posted on Monday, February 06, 2023 at 01:23 PM in AI, Comment of the Week, Scripting | Permalink | Comments (4)
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