MIT Teaches Computer to Read, Conquer the Planet

[Virtual Connor]

Is MIT somehow affiliated with Skynet..massive potential for future developments

 

[Thumper17]

Did the computer look anything like this?

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

A neat application of very well-known associative learning mechanisms in AI and CL. It's cool and makes for a good news story, but isn't really particularly groundbreaking.

 

[Ghengis John]

But the long-term prospects may not be so sunny. If that thing ever figures out how to play Alpha Centauri [http://www.amazon.com/Sid-Meiers-Alpha-Centauri-Pc/dp/B00001NTSO/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1310590904&sr=8-15], we are screwed.

Funny. But no computer could ever figure out how to play... OH SHIT!

I think it's disturbingly impressive this thing was able to start from a blank slate and learn at all, much less to read. But do we really want AI opponents who regularly become better than we are? That sounds like a fast train to frustration.

 

[-Dragmire-]

I would like to see what happens if they put two of these computers against each other.

screw that! Teach it Starcraft 2 and have it go against top tier Koreans, that'll be a match to remember!

 

[Yoshisummons]

Wait, it started on a blank slate with no information to go on, but had read the game manual........ok? A Darwinian program being used through trial and error to create a thinking ai? Color me not shocked as I've been trying to say this forever and I'm glad to see it finally being implemented. I'm more curious what level AI it was playing against.

 

[Booze Zombie]

It wouldn't make any sense for a computer to want to dominate humanity, it isn't at all logical.
Now, if you somehow offended it and it could activate the sprinklers... well, you won't be feeling warm and dry for the rest of the day.

 

[Cpt Corallis]

I would like to see what happens if they put two of these computers against each other.

screw that! Teach it Starcraft 2 and have it go against top tier Koreans, that'll be a match to remember!

I would pay very large amounts of money to have that set up, but don't tell the human opponent. Watch as they grow more frustrated as the computer adapts and counters every strategy. Then tell them they just loss to an AI. It would crush them I thhink.

 

[Secret world leader (shhh)]

I would like to see what happens if they put two of these computers against each other.

screw that! Teach it Starcraft 2 and have it go against top tier Koreans, that'll be a match to remember!

I was thinking exactly the same thing. That would actually be pretty awesome. I think MIT should connect it to the Internet and let people play civ and Starcraft with it.

EDIT: I've just envisioned a world where you come home to find your computer playing GTA or reading a magazine. Imagine it's little robot arms coming out of the monitor flipping the pages!

That's kind of cool actually. Maybe you could connect it with other devices (Phone, console, etc) and it could be your best friend and had a personality and stuff like that. That would be awesome. *looks back at what was just written* ...I shouldn't be posting at 20 to midnight.

 

[ResonanceSD]

I would like to see what happens if they put two of these computers against each other.

isnt it obvious? "a curious game the only winning move is not to play"

Actually in Civ4, it's to build Nukes as fast as possible, and then blow everyone else to kingdome come before global warming sets in. In Civ5, it's the same, except there's no global warming to worry about.

 

[Pinkamena]

Yes, the day a machine is able to win a match of Starcraft 2 against the worlds best player... That will be like when IBM beat that chess player. It'll be marvelous. My god.

 

[-Dragmire-]

I would like to see what happens if they put two of these computers against each other.

screw that! Teach it Starcraft 2 and have it go against top tier Koreans, that'll be a match to remember!

I would pay very large amounts of money to have that set up, but don't tell the human opponent. Watch as they grow more frustrated as the computer adapts and counters every strategy. Then tell them they just loss to an AI. It would crush them I think.

heh, reading that gave me the image of the former champ slumped in a chair staring blankly at his hands as a single tear rolls slowly down his cheek.

hmmm... that could be a wonderfully terrible movie premise where he had to work hard to reclaim his title as the SC2 champ. Naturally, it would have an 80's style montage in it.

EDIT:

*looks back at what was just written* ...I shouldn't be posting at 20 to midnight.

I've done several of those myself. Sleep deprivation and forum posting usually don't mix very well.

 

[HooterNanny]

Well, I think it is a fantastic way to advance robot...I mean human kind. *BZZZT*. Ahem.

 

[CrystalShadow]

Reminds me of the developers comments of stars! 3 (a 4x space strategy game that regrettably never saw the light of day, so there's no real way to know if it was true or just hyperbole)

Supposedly they created AI for it that could learn how to play by observing human players...

They ran into a problem with it though, because one thing it observed and copied, was the tendency human players have of going 'save', and then when something bad happens... 'reload'.

Yes, this AI had figured out how to reload an earlier save-game when something went wrong. XD

Needless to say they had to rewrite the AI routines so it couldn't actually access the save/load mechanisms, but it shows what an AI can learn if you let it...

 

[DaKiller]

I would like to see what happens if they put two of these computers against each other.

Haven't you seen Wargames?

 

[Verlander]

Teach it how to read Wikipedia, then we're really doomed

 

[kickassfrog]

I would like to see what happens if they put two of these computers against each other.

isnt it obvious? "a curious game the only winning move is not to play"

http://xkcd.com/601/

 

[Kopikatsu]

Yes, the day a machine is able to win a match of Starcraft 2 against the worlds best player... That will be like when IBM beat that chess player. It'll be marvelous. My god.

Interestingly, Blue was beaten in a chess match later on.

OT: I have no problem with this. However, we should just be wary of what requests it makes...

 

[kickassfrog]

I would like to see what happens if they put two of these computers against each other.

screw that! Teach it Starcraft 2 and have it go against top tier Koreans, that'll be a match to remember!

I would pay very large amounts of money to have that set up, but don't tell the human opponent. Watch as they grow more frustrated as the computer adapts and counters every strategy. Then tell them they just loss to an AI. It would crush them I thhink.

I could take this computer easily. Just give me a sledgehammer and 5 minutes alone with it.
Unless it's the Daleks. Or the Borg. Or the Terminators.


We better hope this thing turns into the battle droids from star wars.

 

[Hawk of Battle]

I'm more interesting in HOW it wins these games though, the article doesn't say. Does it go for domination victories, cultural, space race, what?