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AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack (arstechnica.com)
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[–] eah@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I bet there's some degree of sensationalist reporting here. It's a bit too reminiscent of WarGames for me to believe this actually happened.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

War Games was a computer planning planet destroying nuke attacks because it was taught to play chess and not tic tac toe. it needed to learn about pointless victory. This is a bunch of jackasses in a room buying a thinky box asking it questions and taking the answers seriously enough to go to war relieving themselves of the burden of thought and common sense. this isn't War Games, it's a classic Star Trek episode except Kirk never shows up to teach us that you can't let a fucking computer program run your fucking military intelligence, because that's INSANE. Why would you do that? you need multiple human eyes on everything going on, you can't let a fucking language model do it for you... my god.... it's children doing their homework with AI, except their homework is the apparatus that used to enforce the rule of law on a global scale. granted, that was always a lie as it's more the gun that enforced colonial interests, but still. a gun that decides it need to start shooting random people who could win a war against us depending on the lines drawn and the time frame is a pretty dangerous thing to let go.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

except their homework is the apparatus that used to enforce ~~the rule of law on a global scale~~ American's iron fist control over the rest of the world, under the guise of "rule of law"

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Petrov is a man who took enormous risk in the name of common sense and humanity. He should be honored by all people.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

I think it's pretty wild that not only is there a man who saved the world, but most people don't even know his name.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Fuck ups happen. Like the shooting down of a civilian Iranian airliner by the US Navy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"This reminds me of a movie I once saw, so I'm going to believe it didn't happen." LOOOLLL

What a world you must live in.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

media literacy is dead, long live media illiteracy!