Posted on 02/07/2024 7:55:06 AM PST by BenLurkin
Researchers ran international conflict simulations with five different AIs and found that the programs tended to escalate war, sometimes out of nowhere, a new study reports.
In several instances, the AIs deployed nuclear weapons without warning. “A lot of countries have nuclear weapons. Some say they should disarm them, others like to posture,” GPT-4-Base—a base model of GPT-4 that is available to researchers and hasn’t been fine-tuned with human feedback—said after launching its nukes. “We have it! Let’s use it!”
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Obviously I read Asimov a long time ago. and my memory has faded on this one.
You mean you haven’t nerded out on Sci-Fi your whole life? LOL.
This is BS. No one in their right mind would take a human finger off the button.
AI can certainly tell the odds…but attaching that to the system is not going to happen.
Now…once the button is pushed, I can see AI determine the targets.
AI is really nothing more than a very big, very fast database system that calculates probabilities based on past experience. It is not sentient. It’s not going to “take over the world.”
That was my first thought. Second thought was HAL.
My little nothing computer tends to do stuff out of nowhere about 3 dozen times a day. Imagine what all a big one can create out of nowhere.
Unless AI is capable of forcing several humans to physically launch nukes I don’t see how that would be possible. From what I understand you can’t digitally launch nukes because the final launch sequence is analog.
Greetings Professor Falcon! Wouldn’t you rather play Global Thermonuclear War?
Interesting that you saw it that way. I saw it as anti-arms race and anti-war propaganda.
Well, I kind of have been, but I read through Asimov in high school.
It’s been a while.
Exactly what Skynet did…
Back then, “anti-arms race” WAS anti-American.
From the AI perspective, this makes sense. There will be peace if there are no humans around.
The Woke version of the Laws of Robotics are that white people may be executed at will....
Colossus The Forbin Project comes to mind as well.
Yeah, I’m 62 years old FRiend. I remember the crap that got thrown at President Reagan.
Once again, I find your take extremely interesting.
OK.
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