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AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code

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Re: AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code

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Another case where “the winning move is not to play.”

I have a friend who I play chess against and every time he's about to lose he offers me a draw. And will continue offering me a draw until I win. Not happy to see the AI performing like that bitch MukyMuky.

Does that cause an interruption while you are playing?

Do you play on chess.com? That seems to attract unsporting players.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/request-for-disabli...

Re: AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code

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Can we put AI to work on proving that we live in a simulation? I would never enter/exit my apartment 38 times alternating between forwards, backwards and each side, but an AI would. Maybe then all the walls start flashing and then we'll know!

What would it possibly matter? If I told you tomorrow that the entire universe as you know it is running on some extra-dimensional alien computer, how exactly is your life changed? Is it any more or less meaningful? Will your suffering be any less painful, your happiness any less joyful?

Besides, how would you even tell the difference between a bug in the simulation and legitimate physics? I mean, look at electron tunneling.

Re: AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code

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post #20

Can we put AI to work on proving that we live in a simulation? I would never enter/exit my apartment 38 times alternating between forwards, backwards and each side, but an AI would. Maybe then all the walls start flashing and then we'll know!

What would it possibly matter? If I told you tomorrow that the entire universe as you know it is running on some extra-dimensional alien computer, how exactly is your life changed? Is it any more or less meaningful? Will your suffering be any less painful, your happiness any less joyful? Besides, how would you even tell the difference between a bug in the simulation and legitimate physics? I mean, look at electron tu…

It would literally make the whole of human history a lie, in the same way that Mario never saved the princess and I haven't shot hundreds of ducks.

Re: AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code

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post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a friend who I play chess against and every time he's about to lose he offers me a draw. And will continue offering me a draw until I win. Not happy to see the AI performing like that bitch MukyMuky.

Does that cause an interruption while you are playing? Do you play on chess.com? That seems to attract unsporting players. https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/request-for-disabli...

Yes, it is on chess.com

Re: AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code

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This reminds me of AI research using NES Games. The AI eventually became proficient at completing Mario levels, and along the way it discovered novel strategies for survival, obtaining points, and finishing levels. > Check out this timestamp to watch the machine "cheat": https://youtu.be/xOCurBYI_gY?t=9m55s > Researcher's site about the project: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/ > The Paper: The First Level of Super…

Lol, that Youtube video, at the end the AI pauses the game of Tetris forever so as not to lose.

I'd call it the first example of AI rage-quitting.

Re: AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code

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post #20

Can we put AI to work on proving that we live in a simulation? I would never enter/exit my apartment 38 times alternating between forwards, backwards and each side, but an AI would. Maybe then all the walls start flashing and then we'll know!

What would it possibly matter? If I told you tomorrow that the entire universe as you know it is running on some extra-dimensional alien computer, how exactly is your life changed? Is it any more or less meaningful? Will your suffering be any less painful, your happiness any less joyful? Besides, how would you even tell the difference between a bug in the simulation and legitimate physics? I mean, look at electron tu…

> Is it any more or less meaningful? Will your suffering be any less painful, your happiness any less joyful?

My happiness won't change, but I would be excited.

If we are indeed in a simulator, then I would be compelled to create or join an effort to attract the attention of a being outside the simulator. Not for worship, but discourse.

To be able to communicate with something outside of what we had perceived as reality, and would be no less real, would be an amazing opportunity.

Re: AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code

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post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would it possibly matter? If I told you tomorrow that the entire universe as you know it is running on some extra-dimensional alien computer, how exactly is your life changed? Is it any more or less meaningful? Will your suffering be any less painful, your happiness any less joyful? Besides, how would you even tell the difference between a bug in the simulation and legitimate physics? I mean, look at electron tu…

> Is it any more or less meaningful? Will your suffering be any less painful, your happiness any less joyful? My happiness won't change, but I would be excited. If we are indeed in a simulator, then I would be compelled to create or join an effort to attract the attention of a being outside the simulator. Not for worship, but discourse. To be able to communicate with something outside of what we had perceived as real…

I admit, that would be exciting and interesting... but also probably impossible. Communication requires shared context, and it is likely whatever our experience of reality is bears no relationship whatsoever to theirs. Imagine Super Mario Bros is a simulation that hosts intelligence. Do you think he interprets data that ultimately becomes pixels on a screen anything like the way we do?
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