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Symposium will teach AIs how to wage nuclear war
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers holds a symposium every year on Computational Intelligence and Games. Part of the symposium is a sort of "Turing Test" challenge, in which contestants program an AI to play a videogame. The objective is to try to trick a panel of human judges into thinking the AI is a human player.
This year's videogame is DEFCON, the brilliant nuclear war strategy game from indie developer Introversion.A group of talented programmers will pitch their DEFCON bot against enemy bots in a series of one-on-one thermonuclear chess games. The winner is the programmer whose bot successfully annihilates its opponents and racks up the highest death count. IEEE is offering a $500 prize to the deadliest DEFCON AI bot competition winner.
This can't be a good idea. Having seen lots of science fiction movies, I know exactly how this is going to turn out: whoever wins, we lose. I urge the IEEE to rethink their choice of game. Perhaps Cooking Mama or Uno?
By MikeDaDrummer at 11:38 AM ON 06/19/09
Do you remember the movie "Wargames" with Matthew Brodrick?
"Would you like to play a game?"
By Erebiel at 12:46 PM ON 06/19/09
OK - this was poorly written in the first-person, ala BLOG.
SciFi (or SyFy - whatever) has NO standards anymore and are shameless about it.
I'm gone from this dreck.
By tallred at 2:08 PM ON 06/19/09
And the winner is:
SkyNet from Cyberdyne Industries!!!
By nbchilla at 2:18 PM ON 06/19/09
yes and:
no, i dont like to play at all.
By Chris Downs at 3:46 PM ON 06/19/09
$500 to create an AI capable of convincing us it's human and then wiping us all out? Sounds terrific! I could buy enough Reese's Pieces to eat while I wait and pretend that the world isn't completely going to ____!
By r4nd0mn4me at 11:06 AM ON 06/20/09
Well at least they seem to leave the Aussies and Kiwis out of it. Maybe it's time to move.
By repinsnug at 2:18 PM ON 06/20/09
@ MikeDaDrummer
That was the first thing I thought of when I saw the map. You beat me to it.
Global Thermonuclear War anyone??
By Maj at 5:27 PM ON 06/20/09
GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR [_]
By Oops at 6:31 AM ON 06/21/09
Why would you need to nuke japan, they don't have a military anymore.
By repinsnug at 11:43 AM ON 06/21/09
@ Oops
Japan may not have an military anymore, but they still have Gundams. Do you really think that Giant RX-78-2 they just build was fake?
By dxg at 12:20 PM ON 06/21/09
Haha, seems you've seen too many such movies with too little understanding of technology and AI.
Skynet is not gonna happen, not for a long long long LONG time. Artificial intelligence is in its infancy. It really is quite futile atm.
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