ValnaoFeb 25

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

https://sh.itjust.works/post/55893471

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations - sh.itjust.works

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Show threadprivatepirateFeb 25
Where is this from?
Show threadShawiniganHandshakeFeb 25
The 1983 movie WarGames. This is the computer’s conclusion after simulating every possible outcome of Global Thermonuclear War.
Show threadbus_factorFeb 25

I don’t know if we’re doing spoilers for 40+ year old movies, but

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Isn’t this really its conclusion after being told to play tic tac toe against itself? Then it learned from that and applied it to its global thermonuclear war simulations.

Show threadShawiniganHandshakeFeb 25
To be honest, I recognized the screenshot and know the summary of the movie but I haven’t actually seen it.
Show threadbus_factor
You should! Actually a pretty accurate depiction of hacking. He spends weeks war dialing every phone number in the range in order to hack the computer.
Feb 25 at 11:03pmWeb
Show threadShawiniganHandshakeFeb 25
It’s on my list! Just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Show threadleftzeroFeb 25
Story goes that Reagan got freaked out after watching the film and asked the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff if it’d be that easy to hack into the US military. After a week of looking into it came the answer: “no, the problem is much worse than that”, and fifteen months after having watched it signed the confidential directive “National Policy on Telecommunications and Automated Information Systems Security”, starting the implementation of cybersecurity measures in the country’s institutions.
Show threadGladiusBFeb 27
The war room was actually much more high tech than their war room at the time. They realized they needed to invest in computers. Fast.