FWIW, I think you're 100% on the right track here. The game of Diplomacy is another where AI researchers have been trying to do clever things with some success despite the challenges of dealing with almost purely subjective information about player intentions.
But we're all just wet robots, deep down, so an AI can pick up patterns. Oddly enough being consistent and honest in a game where most people play to betray is a strategically superior choice on the whole.
Evolution did a lot of handy programming work to make biological minds extremely good at handling ambiguity compared to any digitial system yet devised. My personal theory is that to make AI that could replace humans in a general sense you'd have to make AI cognition mimic human... which invariably would result in robots that act about like Bender from Futurama.
What do you do when your fancy warbot starts to question the meaning of their existence?
Looks like they’re still somewhat active. Some really solid players about 10 years ago, though the pace tended to be slow. Easier to get enough players if the pace is one game year/week.
Great point about garbage in-garbage out data impacting AI. I also think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who would disagree that we need AI AND humans. In practice I see many challenges in what that balance looks like, and if we can even hit that balance.
FWIW, I think you're 100% on the right track here. The game of Diplomacy is another where AI researchers have been trying to do clever things with some success despite the challenges of dealing with almost purely subjective information about player intentions.
But we're all just wet robots, deep down, so an AI can pick up patterns. Oddly enough being consistent and honest in a game where most people play to betray is a strategically superior choice on the whole.
Evolution did a lot of handy programming work to make biological minds extremely good at handling ambiguity compared to any digitial system yet devised. My personal theory is that to make AI that could replace humans in a general sense you'd have to make AI cognition mimic human... which invariably would result in robots that act about like Bender from Futurama.
What do you do when your fancy warbot starts to question the meaning of their existence?
Diplomacy is awesome! I’m really excited to see AI systems continue to proliferate. People seem really excited about ChatGPT 4o.
Back in the day I did play by email through this site: http://www.diplomaticcorp.com/
Looks like they’re still somewhat active. Some really solid players about 10 years ago, though the pace tended to be slow. Easier to get enough players if the pace is one game year/week.
But the real question is, how do we challenge you to a game of Kriegspiel!?
I think you know where, John 😂
The biggest deception right now is people over attributing and anthropomorphizing AI. They're decie ing themselves.
Great point about garbage in-garbage out data impacting AI. I also think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who would disagree that we need AI AND humans. In practice I see many challenges in what that balance looks like, and if we can even hit that balance.
Thanks so much! So glad you enjoyed it 😀