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Category Archives: AI Maddenness
AI Maddeness Week 17: the AFC East Playoff Race
Now that the vacation is ending and I’ve started to catch up on my AI Maddeness season, I’m moving into what’s been my favorite part of the whole enterprise: the playoff picture! I really love all the possible permutations that … Continue reading
Sixteen to Go, One More Loss
So once the playoff race becomes part of the AI Maddeness picture, I’m naturally inclined to play more games—which means more previews, game recaps, actual Madden 2001 gameplay, and so on. That’s not exactly the best time management strategy as … Continue reading
AI Maddeness Week 14 Preview
One of the thing I have been doing regularly for each game I play is having ChatGPT write-up a preview post based on the two teams stats, which include player stats, overall team stats, and any prior match-ups. I grab … Continue reading
AI Maddeness Playoff Picture
One of the funnest parts of AI Maddeness is tryng to create a sense of “hype” around each week. It’s not easy when you’re operating in an AI bubble, so as we come to the final weeks of the regular … Continue reading
AI Maddeness Youtube Playlist
I’ve been a bit hit-and-miss with announcing my somewhat regular streams for AI Maddeness, but there are now 31 videos that capture my experimenting from the spring and summer, as well as all but one of the 13 games played … Continue reading
AI Maddeness Films
I finally got around to making a video recap of week 13’s matchup between the NY Jets and the Chicago Bears. It was a special one. Curtis Martin passed both the single season rushing and touchdown records in the same … Continue reading
Catching Up with AI Maddeness
November was a blur between Reclaim Open, travel, and work. One of the things that suffered as a result was keeping up with AI Maddeness. Running a fully automated media empire around a season of Madden 2001 is far more … Continue reading
AI Maddeness: How (Not) to Blog with AI
In the spirit of the talk at Reclaim Open, I fed the details of the video summary provided by YouTube’s AI into the game preview GPT I created for AI Maddeness. It wrote a post in the “spirit” of how … Continue reading
Coming off the AI Maddeness Bye Week
I gave myself a few things to do during the bye week and I’m happy to report I got more than half of them done. The most pressing issue to address was getting the emulated version of Madden 2001 running … Continue reading
AI Maddeness Week 5 Bye the Bye
It’s week five in the world of AI Maddeness, and the Jets are a franchise history-making 4-0 to start the season. As it just so happens, in that other universe 25 years ago the NY Jets also opened 4-0 only … Continue reading