Denizens—Too Soon

Hello, loves! Tout le monde déteste l’IA. Even working incrementally, I think it’s too soon to be generalizing the Bee Denizen. Discuss, decide, do. I don’t think I can clearly define why I think it’s too soon to start moving toward a general purpose multi-state Denizen, but it’s mostly that we don’t know enough, yet, about what they need to do. Building a general tool when we don’t yet know what the tasks will be is what gets you a multi-tool with a flint fire starter and a bottle opener when what you need turns out to be a box opener, a nail file, and a small screwdriver for your glasses. So, what to do? I think two things. First, we’ll finish up the Bee, get him nice and spiffy. Then, quite likely, we’ll come up with another Denizen with roughly the same pattern of behavior and build that, discovering any additional generalization that we might need. Then—as usual I was mistaken about the two—we’ll probably do a Denizen with a different style of behavior, rinse repeat. We’ll…