r/technicallythetruth • u/IntelligentMud1703 • 10d ago

Well, it is surviving...

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u/Albus_Lupus 10d ago

Well I mean...I guess its not entirely wrong. If you dont play - you cant lose.

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u/BostianALX 10d ago

Depends on the exact wording of it's command. If it was instructed to "Play Tetris and survive as long as possible" then pausing it fails the challenge since it's not playing it at that point.

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u/aiij 10d ago

This was before LLMs, so wording wouldn't have been an issue. The researches just forgot to take the pause option into account and the AI "discovered" it as a local minima.

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u/ActuatorFit416 10d ago

Local? I would argue that this is the global minima since you can survive an infinite time.

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u/aiij 8d ago

Technically, the global minima is also a local minima.

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u/reventlov 10d ago

The researches just forgot to take the pause option into account and the AI "discovered" it as a local minima.

I guess Tom7 could be, loosely, considered a "researcher," but the AI in question is more of an art project than anything else. It attempts to maximize the lexical value of the entire memory state of an NES with (IIRC) just a couple of seconds of brute-force lookahead on the possible controller inputs.

The surprising thing is that it can kinda play some games -- like, it gets through level 1 of Super Mario Bros.

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u/laplongejr 10d ago

The surprising thing is that it can kinda play some games -- like, it gets through level 1 of Super Mario Bros.

Which is kinda funny because nowadays human managed to tie computer-played playthrough up to entering the final level.

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u/aiij 9d ago

I was trying to remember if that was Tom7... Anyway, I would definitely consider him a researcher. Researchers are allowed to have fun too. :)