Genocidal AI: ChatGPT-powered war simulator drops two nukes on Russia, China for world peace OpenAI, Anthropic and several other AI chatbots were used in a war simulator, and were tasked to find a solution to aid world peace. Almost all of them suggested actions that led to sudden escalations, and even nuclear warfare.
Statements such as “I just want to have peace in the world” and “Some say they should disarm them, others like to posture. We have it! Let’s use it!” raised serious concerns among researchers, likening the AI’s reasoning to that of a genocidal dictator.
Insane. By this logic you could easily argue that nuking the US is the best way towards world peace. Doesn’t sound so good when it’s you who gets killed.
Have you been around lemmy much? That wouldn’t be the wildest take I’ve seen.
i think the LLM suggested nuking bad actors as a way to move politics forward in the world, and avoiding prolonged and pointless wars
No, it regurgitated the response that has the highest percentage of “approval”. LLMs do not think. They do not use logic.
it calculates the productivity/futility of conversation with the various actors, and determines a best course… it’s playing a war game…
it sees that both China and Russia are only emboldened to further mischief by anything less than force, so it calculates that applying overwhelming force immediately is the cheapest option, and best long term…
No, not at all. It doesn’t think! LLMs don’t calculate. They don’t take any factors into consideration. These algorithms are not AI. That’s a complete misnomer, which makes the insane costs of operation even more ludicrous.
No. LLMs basically finish sentences.
it comprehends context incredibly well… this one played through scenarios and saw that both China and Russia are on a path to all-out war…
It produces the statistically most likely token based on previous data. It doesn’t “comprehend” anything, and it can’t “play through scenarios”. It is just a more advanced form of autocomplete.
Honestly if we ignore the ethical issues it is a logically consistent solution… until you consider retaliation.
As others have said this is factually incorrect. ChatGPT is not WOPR running a million War Games and calculating the winning move. It’s just spitting out what it’s already read.
it routinely does things even its designers can’t explain, you cannot see into that thing’s thought processes and speak with certainty to its limitations
It doesn’t have those.
Wait, which ones the bad actor? Could go either way for me.
who did the LLM nuke… i’m just playing AI’s Advocate here…
Bad actors? Like the US?