WOPR [“WarGames” (1983)]: “A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”

OpenAI GPT-4 [2023]: “Yee-haw! Nuke ‘em till they glow!”

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2415488-ai-chatbots-tend-to-choose-violence-and-nuclear-strikes-in-wargames/

#LLMs #AI #chatbots #GlobalThermoclearWar #war

AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames

As the US military begins integrating AI technology, simulated wargames show how chatbots behave unpredictably and risk nuclear escalation

New Scientist

@angusm
Because artificial "intelligence" only exists in fiction.

Why is it so hard for folks as a whole to remember that these stochastic parrots are NOT intelligent by any sane measure?

(Probably because there's so much money being spent to pretend that they are.)

@angusm
PSA: GenAI isn't.
It's just parroting what the biggest number of humans in the past had to say on this topic.
And with ChatGPT being heavily slanted towards 🇺🇸 originated content it's absolutely no surprise that the only answer it has to the most of the really big questions in life is "Moar Nukes!".
@angusm Did it start babbling about Purity Of Essence first?
@angusm
So, it's SkyNet? How delightful. 🙄