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An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1004543/openai-gpt-cheat-starcraftI’m so sick of the humanising language used in these articles.
An LLM doesn’t “decide to cheat”.
If you instruct a model to try everything, then inevitably, after n million iterations it will do something you didn’t expect.
If you train a model to copy code bases and augment them, then when you instruct that model to develop a bot to do whatever thing, is it really that fucking surprising when it does exactly what it has been created for?
Replying to @im_fine_sandy@nord.pub
“Omg the digits of pi contain the binary digital code of an mp4 of me taking a shit this morning! Circles are seniient”-ass language
Replying to @Garbagio@lemmy.zip
But wouldn’t that be amazing if THAT was the thing that proved pi contained the whole universe - I mean, the first thing they “unlocked”. lol.
Disclaimer: I don’t think pi contains the universe, just love to think about things like that occasionally for fun.
Replying to @daychilde@lemmy.world
as an infinte random string of values, the digits of pi will, sooner or later, contain any specific string of values.
i think it was Sagan’s “Contact” where aliens sent a message to read the digits of pi from the x th place to the y th place, and that stretch could be read as instructions on how to build a machine to reply.
Replying to @livingheart@sh.itjust.works
It is believed that pi is “absolutely normal” in the strict mathematical definition: that in any base numbering system, any finite sequence of digits appears as frequently as any other sequence of that length. If that’s true, then yes, a particular binary string, including one that corresponds to a particular digital file (like a particular mp4 file), can be found in pi.
That said, it hasn’t actually been proven that pi is normal. If it’s not normal, then the number can be infinitely non-repeating and still never hit that particular sequence of digits.