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

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

Lemmy

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

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

spoiler

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.

To be honest, I recognized the screenshot and know the summary of the movie but I haven’t actually seen it.
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.
It’s on my list! Just haven’t gotten around to it yet.