Peter GleickFeb 25

So Skynet is real and the movie War Games was a documentary?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

New Scientist
Show threadLucas C. WheelerFeb 25
@petergleick What percentage of the LLM training data surrounding nuclear war is made up by the Terminator franchise and War Games? 😆 So depressing. SciFi authors always envision these grandiose stories about hyper-intelligent AIs turning on humanity, but the reality is SO MUCH DUMBER. Feels more like the kind of tech apocalypse from Cat's Cradle than the one from Terminator.
Show threadSimplicator
@lcwheeler @petergleick & sci-fi writers & Hollywood make it seem super-cool
See also the movies “Wall St.”, “Wolf of Wall St.,” etc.
Feb 25 at 6:40pmWeb