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

• ShawiniganHandshake@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • privatepirate@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thank you so much I’m going to watch it!

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    • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s a fun classic.

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    • unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They did a sequel, too. It wasn’t as good, but points out the 6 degrees of separation in connection with terrorism instead of MAD.

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  • bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • ShawiniganHandshake@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      To be honest, I recognized the screenshot and know the summary of the movie but I haven’t actually seen it.

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      • bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        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.

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I think you should rewatch it sometime. it plays all the games in it’s catalogue, it’s not just applying tic-tac-toe to chess. skilled players of tic-tac-toe can force a stalemate, the only stalemate in nuclear war is mutually assured destruction.

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      • bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s admittedly been a while since last time I saw it, but I never mentioned chess. The suggestion to play chess in the screenshot is a callback to when the computer tries to suggest playing chess instead of global thermonuclear war earlier in the movie. The computer did not apply tic tac toe learnings to chess, and I never claimed it did.

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