MIT Teaches Computer to Read, Conquer the Planet

[Vault boy Eddie]

FFS stop teaching computers how to take over the world!!!! At least wait till my knee is repaired, i'm not ready to fight our would be robot overlords yet!!!

 

[Irridium]

Huh, who'd a though that the manual would help you play better.

Shocker.

They get the edge too, since humans don't read manuals.

 

[orangeapples]

so which computer am i supposed to accuse of being a cheating bastard?

 

[Ninedeus]

Skynet. ver 0.0.0.1 I'm sure there's nothing to worry about.

OT: Theres nothing wrong with it learning to play Alpha Centauri. I'd be more worried if it learned to use google.

 

[Blaster395]

Isn't this counted as an evolutionary AI? It changes its actions randomly until it finds something that works. I am surprised video games have not started using these before because its the kind of thing that, with enough time, becomes near unbeatable.

 

[AetherWolf]

Why, hello there A.M. prototype!

 

[Jessta]

you know its funny, a bit before the PS3 came out I was sent a little booklet advertisement thing that featured in the first three pages that with the new PS3 unit computer enemies would be able to remember your play style learning how you work and adapt to it...

 

[Ekonk]

That sounds like a fast train to frustration.

Also extinction.

This is pretty great. I do admit that whenever I hear news like this I kind of feel involuntarily scared (damn you, I Robot, Terminator, etc, for poisoning my mind with closeminded fear), while this is of course a very revolutionary and interesting event.

 

[Smerf]

so, if we put it in a darlec shell (however you spell it) give it instructoins on how to use the flamethrougher the programmers attach and a book on world domination it will win 70 some % of the time? i like those odds, lets try it.

 

[A-D.]

Give it the Rulebooks of every Faction of Warhammer 40k, every supplement, every little fact about how its played. If it figures out how to play..we're screwed. Im calling it.

Seriously though, its not a true AI in that sense, no where near it just yet. It simply is like using google for search words and it learns through trial and error which link the actual best result is.

Also as a sidenote, if we ever get a true AI, it wont be Skynet. The most likely outcome is "I have no Mouth but i want to scream"..yeah that should scare you.

 

[cjbos81]

I wasn't worried until I read somewhere that they named the computer Joshua.


That's right. A "Wargames" reference. Google it, kids.

 

[thiosk]

We better research Mind-Machine Interface

Im on it. I should have a functioning prototype rather soon. The neurons survive, we just need to get the cloning and implantation down.

 

[Jnat]

It's funny because the AI in civ 5 is horrible.

 

[RA92]

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

Teach it how to read TVTropes, then we're all saved.

 

[Engarde]

I find it hilarious that the computers will now have the tactical advantage while the puny humans will have to stack of death / blanket of death.... Now teach it to play fall from heaven / rise from erebus. Good luck with the muris clan, they don't teach you that shit in the manual...

 

[Necrofudge]

I am genuinely frightened. I think I'll go stock my basement with radiation suits and canned food. It's only a matter of time...

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

People don't realise that computer won't have desires, to put it in a more approachable way, computer will only want to take over the world if the programmers tell them to, but people are much less expensive and much easier to produce.

Quite simple really just program the AI to feel a sense of fear and then let the AI know your going to shut it down forever and then you got yourself a case of Skynet.

OT: I like the idea that sometime in the future i will actually be able to play against AI that can actually learn making game replays endless and different and if they could be teamed up with you and your brainpower then the fun never ends..unless you play it on an RTS then you get your wits and strats back handed to you.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

Huh, who'd a though that the manual would help you play better.

Shocker.

They get the edge too, since humans don't read manuals.

Shush don't let the AI know of our weakness D=.

 

[SamuelT]

...really guys?

Again?

 

[samsonguy920]

Here more than half the human population barely or doesn't know how to read, and we are worried about teaching a computer how to read? This scares me more than anything resembling Skynet.
But on the other hand, I'd be curious if the 79% constituted just conquering the world or was a mash of different win scenarios between world conquer and reaching Alpha Centauri, and I think the UN is the third, but it has been so long since I played the original. If it was a mashup, which of the three dominated?
Details!
(I'm not the only one curious, there is a related comment on the MIT site as well)