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

[rrb@infosec.exchange]

@bencourtice @petergleick I am starting to hope for thermo-nuclear obliteration just to stop the stupidity. I pray that the cockroaches learn from our failures.

[http_error_418@hachyderm.io]

@petergleick the writer still falls in to the trap of calling the output "reasoning", I didn't even need to get past the paywall to see that. Not worth my time to look further, that's enough to see that it's bad reporting.

[simplicator@federate.social]

@petergleick Musk named his “AI” supercomputer “Colossus” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus%3A_The_Forbin_Project

[simplicator@federate.social]

@lcwheeler @petergleick & sci-fi writers & Hollywood make it seem super-cool
See also the movies “Wall St.”, “Wolf of Wall St.,” etc.

[henstridge@mstdn.social]

@petergleick

This should fix it:

XOO
OXX
XXO

[infrapink@mastodon.ie]

@petergleick
No, because the computer in War Games had yo be goaded into using nukes.

[vgoller@nrw.social]

@petergleick won’t hurt AI. Just saying

[xro@chaos.social]

@petergleick
Real humans, at some point, do the total cost calculation of afterwards having to live in constant fear of having the same done to them as well as the damage to humanity, international relations and trade and their own standards of living...

And decide that this is not worth it.

#AI just gets told "to win" and executes without the human subtext

[avincentinspace@furry.engineer]

@petergleick just in case this wasn't scary enough: https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-hegseth-ai-pentagon-military-3d86c9296fe953ec0591fcde6a613aba

[tarheel@mstdn.io]

@xro @petergleick @cstross

The real piece of info here would be: how much of this total-cost calculation must be included in the wargame to make the AI choose another path, and is THAT cost realistic? Because if not... duck and cover.

[yojimbo@masto.hackers.town]

@petergleick Ah, look, there's the mistake :-
"The AI models ... produced around 780,000 words describing the reasoning behind their decisions."
No, they produced 780,000 words that looked statistically similar to what a human might have said under the same circumstances.

[gelsomore645@social.vivaldi.net]

@petergleick

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@jmcs @lcwheeler @petergleick Brain children inherit the faults of their creators. This isn't surprising at all.

Especially given how many people genuinely disagreed with the whole premise of Wargames back then.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@Simplicator @lcwheeler @petergleick A lot of folks out here working in finance genuinely love those movies. Inspirational to them.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@bencourtice @petergleick Yes.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@rrb @bencourtice @petergleick They'd be starting by learning from all the old Bell Telephone equipment, so they'd have a good start.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@Simplicator @petergleick Yet another jagoff who missed the whole point of the movie. Aargh.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@xro @petergleick That says much about the organics in charge.

[x41h@infosec.exchange]

@petergleick fantastic

[chogbro@masto.ai]

@petergleick because of John Nash's game theory applied to the cold war nuclear balance of terror. Nash was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia at the time and later came to realise that real life was much more complicated than his equations.