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

[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.

[chogbro@masto.ai]

@petergleick the "rational" option is always to strike first. See also the "rational" economic theories of Hayek, von Mises, Friedman and other charlatans.

[alandvalonline@mastodon.social]

@petergleick Want to play a game of Take That Dough?

[trittriton@shelter.moe]

@petergleick Pr. Stephen Falken, we need your help! Joshua’s siblings are crazy!

(But can they win a tic-tac-toe game?)

[stiv@mastodon.social]

@petergleick In other news, Hegseth is threatening to invoke the defense production act on Anthropic if they don't remove restrictions on how the military uses its AI.

"At the heart of the fight is how A.I. will be used in future battlefields. Anthropic told defense officials that it did not want its A.I. used for mass surveillance of Americans or deployed in autonomous weapons that had no humans in the loop, two people involved in the discussions said."

nytimes.com

(www.nytimes.com)

[maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza]

@petergleick “More fundamentally, AI models may not understand ‘stakes’ as humans perceive them.”

Well, no shit, Sherlock.