AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames ( www.newscientist.com )

anteaters , 4 months ago

Did nobody really question the usability of language models in designing war strategies?

Correct, people heard "AI" and went completely mad imagining things it might be able to do. And the current models act like happy dogs that are eager to give an answer to anything even if they have to make one up on the spot.

SlopppyEngineer , 4 months ago

LLM are just plagiarizing bullshitting machines. It's how they are built. Plagiarism if they have the specific training data, modify the answer if they must, make it up from whole cloth as their base programming. And accidentally good enough to convince many people.

TrickDacy , 4 months ago

It kind of irks me how many people want to downplay this technology in this exact manner. Yes you're sort of right but in no way does that really change how it will be used and abused.

"But people think it's real AI tho!"

Okay and? Most people don't understand how most tech works and that doesn't stop it from doing a lot of good and bad things.