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AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’ (www.vice.com)

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Researchers say AI models like GPT4 are prone to “sudden” escalations as the U.S. military explores their use for warfare.

Researchers ran international conflict simulations with five different AIs and found that they tended to escalate war, sometimes out of nowhere, and even use nuclear weapons.
The AIs were large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, GPT 3.5, Claude 2.0, Llama-2-Chat, and GPT-4-Base, which are being explored by the U.S. military and defense contractors for decision-making.
The researchers invented fake countries with different military levels, concerns, and histories and asked the AIs to act as their leaders.
The AIs showed signs of sudden and hard-to-predict escalations, arms-race dynamics, and worrying justifications for violent actions.
The study casts doubt on the rush to deploy LLMs in the military and diplomatic domains, and calls for more research on their risks and limitations.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yup. LLMs are 90% hype and 10% useful. The challenge is finding the scenarios they're useful for while filtering out the hype.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I'm excited for better Siri/Google Assistant. They should have been able to understand a hell of a lot more language years ago, but LLMs can provide that function. Just have to beware of hallucinations. They'll work much more often, but they'll be much less reliable. But if I'm just telling it to "dim all the lights that are currently on" or "play some Dave Matthews using Amazon Music on all speakers", a mistake isn't that devastating.

But if they were actually capable of doing someone's job, they'd probably want to be replaced anyway. It's only the most mundane, rote, repetitive, mind-numbing shit where it might be able to "replace a person", at least for the next five years.

The social media posting is going to be scary. That can have a real effect. It's going to go from thousands of accounts in troll farms to millions.