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AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames (www.newscientist.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

These aren't simulations that are estimating results, they're language models that are extrapolating off a ton of human knowledge embedded as artifacts into text. It's not necessarily going to pick the best long term solution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Language models can extrapolate but they can also reason (by extrapolating human reasoning).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I want to be careful about how the word reasoning is used because when it comes to AI there's a lot of nuance. LLMs can recall text that has reasoning in it as an artifact of human knowledge stored into that text. It's a subtle but important distinction that's important for how we deploy LLMs.