Jun 17 2009It's Been Fun: Teaching AI How To Kill Us All
In one of the sickest and twistedest announcements I've read in recent history, programmers attending the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers symposium will attempt to program AI to destroy us all in a game of DEFCON.
Part of the symposium is a sort of "Turing Test" challenge, in which contestants program an AI to play a videogame. The objective is to try to trick a panel of human judges into thinking the AI is a human player.
This year's videogame is DEFCON, the brilliant nuclear war strategy game from indie developer Introversion.A group of talented programmers will pitch their DEFCON bot against enemy bots in a series of one-on-one thermonuclear chess games. The winner is the programmer whose bot successfully annihilates its opponents and racks up the highest death count. IEEE is offering a $500 prize to the deadliest DEFCON AI bot competition winner.
WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?! Like I don't have enough to worry about without people programming artificial intelligence to kill us all. You KNOW the robots are behind this. And also, BEHIND YOU -- DUCK! *pew pew* I just saved your life. No need to thank -- actually, yes, sing my praises. *cocking laser blaster* DO IT!
Symposium will teach AIs how to wage nuclear war [fidgit]
Thanks Kenny, shall we play a game?
Reader Comments
1. JokerMan774 - June 17, 2009 12:00 PM
That game's been out for a while now. It's inexpensive, the music is intensely moody and it really gives you the feeling that you're in a nuclear bunker somewhere. One of the best games I've ever played. Simple, yet so compelling. If you haven't tried it, get the demo. You'll thank me!
2. led panel - June 17, 2009 12:02 PM
Number 2 ..lol...
3. FDSY - June 17, 2009 12:03 PM
DAMN IT!! I WAS GOING TO SEND IN THAT TIP!!
DAMN IT!!!!
4. FDSY - June 17, 2009 12:04 PM
Oh and
FEAR THE COMING ROBOPOCALYPSE!!!
5. Daisy - June 17, 2009 12:06 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where Max stayed home to wait for the cable guy, who offered him free HBO, and then made his life hell when he mistakenly thought Max wanted to be his friend.
6. vad1110 - June 17, 2009 12:07 PM
Skynet Core?
7. 3.14chan - June 17, 2009 12:17 PM
You just lost the game
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8. Logos - June 17, 2009 12:17 PM
Are they gonna teach it the Robot Warrior's Code? *PewPew*
Also, that game does look like fun. I'll bet I can beat a robot at it.
9. Pew³ - June 17, 2009 12:23 PM
OLD!!!
This is so old, they made a movie about it in 1983 called War Games.
Do you want to play a game?
10. Chaz - June 17, 2009 12:26 PM
This is how TERMINATOR STARTED!
Damn engineers!
The AI bots will become Self Aware!
Then we will all die like birdies.
11. Pew³ - June 17, 2009 12:27 PM
My mistake. It was..
Shall we play a game?
How about Global Thermonuclear War.
Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?
Later. Right now lets play Global Thermonuclear War.
Fine.
12. robot devil - June 17, 2009 12:29 PM
Awesome. What would be more awesome would be a massive invasion by billions of pygmy gerboas. Trampled to death by them hopping all over you. Much more exciting than instant nuclear death.
13. Puma - June 17, 2009 12:29 PM
war games! that movie was awesome. glad they're making a remake of it....
14. Pew³ - June 17, 2009 12:38 PM
See that sign up here - up here. "Defcon." That indicates our current defense condition. It should read "Defcon 5," which means peace. It's still on 4 because of that little stunt you pulled. Actually, if we hadn't caught it in time, it might have gone to Defcon 1. You know what that means, David?
15. Pew³ - June 17, 2009 12:39 PM
World War Three.
16. Ollie Williams - June 17, 2009 12:45 PM
Heh, GW said "cocking".
17. /Eyeroll - June 17, 2009 12:56 PM
At first I was going to complain about the missing War Games joke but Pew set things straight for me.
This shit is old news... I have a friend who is a professor and his job outside of teaching is trying to program philisophical thought into AI... Now THAT shit... is scary.
@ GW... not only did you not mention War Games pertaining to this post, you failed to mention the copious amounts of dinosaurs in the doctor's cabin.
@ Pew... GJ
18. nadalo日本にいます。(also in Japan) - June 17, 2009 1:11 PM
WAR GAMES!!! one of the best movies ever! ....great soundtrack for the end of the world too. so 80's.....
19. Baked Kays - June 17, 2009 1:24 PM
Am I the only one that always confuses AI (Artificial Intelligence) for Al (short for Albert, Allen, Alfonzo or Alfredo)?
I'm all like: "why is some guy named Al always being taught how to kill us?"
20. Agent Mark - June 17, 2009 1:37 PM
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21. drbendy - June 17, 2009 1:38 PM
It's great, but it is about a year old now.
22. Emkay - June 17, 2009 1:43 PM
Thermonuclear Chess.
I'm going to incorprate tha into a new catch phrase! =D
23. /Eyeroll - June 17, 2009 1:45 PM
@21 - If you ever get a job in gov. you might then understand how fake and amusing that post is. I don't mean amusing "haha", I mean amusing "aw he thinks that looks official".
24. naas - June 17, 2009 1:46 PM
galaga - makes me want to play galaga
25. Robotguy - June 17, 2009 2:07 PM
That's easy: The only winning move is not to play.
26. Quik - June 17, 2009 2:31 PM
That seals it... I'm moving to Australia or south South America.
Tough call though. I don't speak Spanish or retarded.
27. GLADIATOR - June 17, 2009 2:48 PM
@ 18 That is exactly what I thought when I came across the posting. "War Games" was a great movie!
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28. Latrell Sprewell - June 17, 2009 3:19 PM
@19, I usually confuse it with Allen Iverson. It's pretty much interchangeable. Neither one has notable levels of true intelligence.
29. jaime - June 17, 2009 6:54 PM
I'M SERIOUS, START A SPECIAL SITE FOR ROBOT APOCALYPSE.
30. caro - June 17, 2009 6:55 PM
Sweet. New Zealand isn't even on the map!
31. Watch-303 - June 17, 2009 9:39 PM
SCARY!!
32. lupin - June 18, 2009 5:22 AM
Hey I guess all of us who live in the pacific have nothing to worry about, since they've decided to use a US map that doesn't even have 90% of the islands on it!
33. Darth - June 18, 2009 2:04 PM
Where are the times that Risk was the ultimate destroy game?
34. Sauron - June 18, 2009 2:06 PM
Are there any buttons to push in this game??
35. Jaded Icon - June 19, 2009 7:43 AM
I'm not suprised about this game, but if you really think the military don't have more advanced A.I. available to them then ones based on a 1980's movie then you are fooling yourself. Still, it looks fun.
36. Browchay - June 19, 2009 9:35 AM
Thats cool. I live in New Zealand and its not on the map !
Defcon away and blow yourselves up, then we win !!
37. Shadow - June 19, 2009 3:42 PM
you forgot about the post-apocalypstic Nuclear fallout.. with all of the nukes goin off.. including russia's nuclear generators combined with ours and North Korea's nukes... well and combine that with the wind factor... that will make one hell of a fallout.. and it will cover all of EARTH's atsmophere.. and probably destroy the ozone layer.. so the survivors will be zapped with Radiation from the sun... that is if we dont become -GASP- ZOMBIES!! then a good reason to have robots.. to kill the zombies.. oh wait.. then whos gonna take care of us... OH MY GOD!!! AHHHHH WE ALL ARE GONNA DIEEE!!
38. anonymous - June 25, 2009 3:19 AM
WHAT?! ... WHAT? It's the turk! Where the hell is sarah connor when you need her?
39. Sue - December 14, 2009 2:08 PM
For once I'm glad Australia's been left out.
Retarded hey? Hmmmmm taken a good look at ourselves lately?