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mrlonglongyesterday at 8:13 PM2 repliesview on HN

WOPR was the first fictional AI to realise to win is not to play at all.

From the War Games (1983) film.


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jhallenworldyesterday at 8:31 PM

Colossus/Guardian was the first AI to realize that the humans could be easily coerced by using their own nukes against them.

From the Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) film.

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jedbergyesterday at 8:40 PM

WOPR used reinforcement learning, and could learn from its simulated mistakes. LLMs can't do that without some sort of RL harness. :)