They're Building The WOPR!!!

[@Travelinmatt1976]

A strange game, the only winning move is not to play.

[@mikabreto]

Underrated comment

[@coreyworthington2797]

Best line ever.

[@grossteilfahrer]

Yup.

[@MhzUHF]

Fantastic 😂

[@DevilDoghz]

@@coreyworthington2797 Early in the movie, "Turn your key, sir!" Terrifying line.

[@EEVblog2]

Reminds me of the line from the movie Broken Arrow about missing nuclear weapons "I don't know what scares me more, the fact that it's happened, or that it happens so often we have a name for it".

[@michaelgroob3760]

Ought to read or get the audio book of Command And Control by Eric Schlosser. It boggles the mind how close and how often we came to nuclear accidents. Not just launch or loss accidents but things such as burning of nuclear cores, fire put out but the radioactive water and material was tracked all over the place.

[@EddieLeal]

You would freak out if you knew how many times we "almost" nuked ourselves to oblivion. 😉

[@jd_flick]

Never forget that Stanislav Petrov decided to go against the rules and hold off on launching nuclear missiles in 1983 when all of his indicators showed America had launched missiles at the Soviet Union. One man ignored the set in place instructions and saved the world.

[@humanistwriting5477]

so let's automate it 99 luftballons!

[@nzoomed]

wow didnt know anything about this

[@quickturn66]

And unbelievably his higher ups put the screws to him for not “ shooting back “

[@goobyboxxton8526]

I wonder what that alternate timeline looks like

[@ryomichael]

And 20 years before that, under the Caribbean Sea, during the Cuban Missile Crisis...

[@untermench3502]

A funny story from those days: I was flying on British Airways to the Middle East. The in-flight movie that day was War Games. We were off the coast of Berut Lebanon, right aruond sunset, when the final scene was playing and the missiles were flying. Just then a large explosion occured in the city and tracers were going in all directions. I was watching the movie with my right eye and watching the real war going-on with my left eye. It was quite the show.

[@AvalexLLC]

Not all the stories....Captain Kirk and Spock used to be able to convince computers to destroy themselves all the time....when Kirk wasn't teaching alien women "love" anyway.

[@stevendunn264]

What could go wrong??? Military Intelligence , The Terminator, The Forbin Project, War Games, The Doomsday Machine... I've seen this movie.

[@OM19_MO79]

What could go wrong??? Mankind actually surviving Global Thermonuclear War. Life is not worth living anymore, maybe it’s time... we’re long past due.

[@davidg4288]

Also Fail Safe, On the Beach, and best of all Dr. Strangelove!

[@davidg4288]

Oh I forgot Panic in Year Zero. Pretty corny but still one of the first survivalist movies.

[@user-blumooone3]

The best story ever written about this is Harlan Ellison's "I have no mouth and I must scream" Beware tho as It is very disturbing.

[@YoureNowOnTV]

David: What is the primary goal? Joshua/WOPR: You should know that, Professor. You programmed me. David: Oh, c'mon. What is the primary goal? Joshua/WOPR: To win the game.

[@certfe4838]

David: Is it a game or is it real?

[@tgirard123]

There it is ladies and gentlemen, the discovery of the Fermi paradox Great barrier. They say you probably will never see it coming. I bet there are people that see it coming but just can't do anything about it

[@wildstar1063]

I don't know about WOPR from Wargames, or if it's more like Colossus from the Forbin Project. In either case, the lesson from both of those movies (colossus was actually a series of three books) is, don't build an AI without an easily accessible off switch. The AI in self driving cars scares me a lot more. A computer crash in a self driving car will give a whole new meaning to "the blue screen of death".

[@wimwiddershins]

By the time any technology becomes public knowledge, its already old news in the r&d lab...

[@warsurplus]

This is absolutely terrifying. Even if you get the best scientists, software developers, and designers, there will be something that is overlooked and we'll all be F#$%&.

[@alasdair4161]

What motivates the whole project is the unknown. If they knew exactly what the final outcome will be they would have no reason to build it... That alone should be enough reason not to.

[@etherealbolweevil6268]

You appear to be describing the well established engineering phenomenon of "Emergent Properties of the System".

[@kaasmeester5903]

At the tactical and level this is not much of an issue: AI systems can play a big role in assigning and controlling local assets (especially air defense); mistakes will be made but they will be limited and contained. And at the strategic level, there is not that much reason to pull humans out of the loop. In the War Games movie, they justified giving control to the WOPR because of a few men refusing to push the big red button, but in reality, such refusals are not going to matter enough to just the a computer take control. You really really really want those systems air-gapped. But at the theater level, AI will be in a position to make a real difference with fast decision making, reacting to events and running scenarios, as well as have control over enough assets to mess things up in a big way. No threaten humanity directly, but perhaps enough to escalate things if it "wanted" to.

[@michellemason6501]

More often than not the ones you think are the best are not. There is no room for error here. Especially when it’s outsourced and there is no accountability. It comes will affect everyone on earth, not just one country.

[@geralyn-mm]

Their AI: Your mama! Our AI: Don't you talk about my mama! CLICK.

[@gumsmoking]

When I was a kid from the first grade (1958) we were told about the threat of nuclear war and “duck and cover” forms of avoiding the blast, radiation etc. It had me dreaming of seeing missiles raining down on us. It has been a constant defcon threat for most of my young existence. From bomb shelters to hiding under your desk (I didn’t know wood was a radiation barrier!) My two favorite heroes growing up were Robert and Esther Goddard. Goddard wanted to go to the Moon but those in governments seem to always have a (bitter) idea for his rockets. Most people give Von Braun most of the credit for rocket development but Goddard died too early. Anyway it breaks my heart to see one who wanted positive forces to speed us to other worlds and one who wants to blow up the world. I see you have the Gordon Lightfoot album next to you. He’s one of my favorites. I just got two 45 rpm records added to my collection. Mr.Dielingly Sad by the Critters and “Because” by the Dave Clark Five. Anyway I enjoy your genius and learn lots of things and also remember other things you demonstrate. Your are a favorite of mine…

[@dngrwllrbnsn_]

I seriously considered the argument that the Earth is flat. What tipped me back into being an "orbtard" (I think that's what we're called) was seeing video of James Van Allen having rockets launched to investigate the radiation belts, soon named after him. Van Allen being an Iowa boy, I believe Van Allen would not have gone along with a conspiracy to make the world seem round if indeed it was flat.

[@NullStaticVoid]

I think you mean "Colossus The Forbin Project" directed by Joseph Sargent. Who I only just recently found out also directed the classic "Taking of Pelham 123". Thats two of my favorite movies right there!

[@janglestick]

we need to keep the WOPR in two seperate containers. Perhaps the nice cold leafy public data should be kept in the left side, while the nice warm meaty processing units should be kept in the right side.

[@lodragan]

Meat powered processing - both warm *and* delicious!

[@jonathonshanecrawford1840]

@@lodragan Maccas!

[@janglestick]

@@lodragan yep ... i don't think most ppl remember the Whopper coming in two separate side containers, I had forgotten they revived it with the McDLT for a while

[@EEVblog]

General Beringer: "Gentlemen, I wouldn't trust this overgrown pile of microchips and further than I can throw it".

[@AlanCanon2222]

I hated Beringer as a kid, and of course now he's one of my favorite characters. Perfect casting of Mr Corbin.

[@kaasmeester5903]

"After careful consideration I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks" Such an epic character.

[@davidg4288]

"God damn it I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good!"

[@netsurferx1]

"Well goddamnit, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good!"

[@jediknightdiscomike22]

Mr. Mcitrick... I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.

[@MrJpm1989]

I am so very happy to see your videos on my selection being offered to me.❤

[@PatJones82]

Yep. What SHE said. Spot on Fran.

[@erictaylor5462]

No one, no matter how smart they are, is immune from doing something stupid. There is a fantastic video of Wolfgang Pauli and Enrico Fermi playing with a "Tippy-Top" (a toy that demonstrates some interesting physics) both men are well beyond the age where bending over is comfortable and easy, it it even looks uncomfortable in the picture. These two men are among the smartest of their generation, and both have made incredible contributions to science. Yet neither one of them though, "We could see this better, and more comfortably if we did it on a table." I think this picture perfectly illustrates my point that no matter how much experience you have, you will never be immune from making a stupid point. There was a skydiver who would film other people skydiving. With over 800 jumps you can't argue he would be subject to rookie mistakes, but on his last skydive he had his photography kit with him, but he had left his skydiving kit behind. In the video you can see his reaction when he goes to pull his rip cord. When he doesn't find it he realizes what he had done. This was not a suicide, it was a Darwin award.

[@bohican]

Colossus: The Forbin Project is such an under rated movie. Fun Fact: The actor who played the handsome POTUS in that movie is another Canadian Gordon who recently passed away... Canadian Icon and Supreme Newfoundlander: Gordon Pinsent. He grew up about 40 minutes away from my hometown.

[@dngrwllrbnsn_]

Colossus: The Forbin Project a movie you need to watch. Years later still scares hell out of me. Glad Fran mentioned it. (When Colossus announces, "There is another system," I still get chills.") (Notice on Colossus' display it says, "WARN" not "WARNING" ? I believe this is a glitch in the movie making that they accepted to keep production rolling. But how interesting in real life there is this glitch...)

[@Donna230]

The WOPR. Bless you.

[@AC3handle]

I get the feeling at that some point, the AI is going to have to take over for us because we've either never grown up, or have become the dottering adults that need constant supervision.

[@gibbyrockerhunter]

In my opinion that ti calculator on your desk is the best one ever produced. Mainly due to the night rider stand by feature....it’s just so darn cool. I wish I had people in my physical life who appreciates things like cool calculators and the possible reality’s we are setting ourselves up for.

[@c.g.vonhagenstein7576]

I don't mind your videos on the topic of A.I. and similar topics between other stuff. It's an important topic that merits pondering. Hopefully we don't idly ponder ourselves right out of existence... Also couldn't help but notice that Amiga binder and mouse sitting back there. Proud Amiga 1000 owner with some expansion ram checking in. Still have original boxed software for it too. Gotta love those big beautiful Pysgnosis boxes with art by Roger Dean (of Yes album cover fame no less) eh? Long live Amiga! And Fran too! Cheers.

[@RReese08]

Let’s not forget HAL 9000 of 2001: A Space Odyssey who decided that the Discovery I’s human crew was too much of a liability to the intended goals of the Jupiter mission, so he attempted to eliminate them. Before 2001 there’s a movie made in the 1950s called GOG which features a computer that runs virtually everything in a secret government underground lab. Proto AI, if you will, that is somehow manipulated by dastardly foreign agents. It’s a pretty funky movie, but I think many of the ideas in telling its story were well ahead of their time by presenting a foreshadowing of the many technological issues that we’ve been dealing with for at least the last 40 years or so.

[@dngrwllrbnsn_]

Damn, you are CORRECT! 2001 was all about AI gone wrong! (Well, there were other unique themes in the movie, but...) My fave movie and book and I didn't think of it in terms of AI malfunction. I need to find GOG since I have not seen it.

[@RReese08]

@@dngrwllrbnsn_ Clarke and Kubrick’s concept for HAL goes all the way back to the early 1960s while they were developing 2001. So I think it’s not that they were just ahead of their time, but I remember, when the movie came out, some people called them out about how unlikely such technology and a scenario was. I remember people saying how far off HAL-level AI as recent as maybe ten years ago. Yet here we are. And I apologize in advance to the KZbin algorithm and Google AI; we weren’t talking about you.

[@RReese08]

@@dngrwllrbnsn_ PS - There used to be copies of GOG posted on KZbin that you could watch for free, but they’re all gone AFAIK. It’s still available on YT, but for purchase or rent only.

[@dngrwllrbnsn_]

@@RReese08 If I recall correctly, Clarke was in SriLanka and Kubrick in England(?) and the two collaborated with texts sent back and forth using computers over phone lines. I guess they wanted to be at the forefront of the technology of the time. Several years ago I was partially convinced there was an AI controlling the internet. I included a couple of messages to the AI in some email I sent.

[@RReese08]

@@dngrwllrbnsn_ Clarke and Kubrick got together in New York City to discuss possible story ideas after Kubrick had completed Dr. Strangelove, but I understand they had been in contact with each other some time before that, since at least when Kubrick was finishing up Spartacus. It was from a pile of stories that Clarke had brought that Stanley chose the short story The Sentinel, and things went on from there. I don’t know if Arthur went back to Sri Lanka to work on the script and corresponding novelization, but there’s picture and video proof that he was on the set of 2001 at least at some point during production. Considering that communications back then weren’t like it is today, I’d assume that both of them spent time together to work out the script before production began in early 1965 (I think). I have a copy of the book The Making of 2001 stashed somewhere under all my junk and look up the details and see how far off I am in remembering. I think it came out only in paperback and it was almost as popular as the movie and novel. Today, copies are as rare as hen’s teeth with cavities, but can be found on eBay for reasonable to expensive. It was a great read for film geek kids everywhere.

[@rushymoto]

What is that movie with a colossus in ? In the UK Colossus was the first programmable electronic computer we invented during WW2 to break the enigma code. It was in face classified until well into and after the cold war.

[@dimitrioskalfakis]

yes, they are doing it because just like addicts who can not stop themselves from self-destruction without external intervention they too are trapped in a vicious positive feedback loop of insanity. dystopia ahead at full speed.

[@3aresnik]

Thanks!

[@chrisharmon]

This reminds me of the Harlan Elison short story "I have no mouth, and I must Scream"

[@davidsandy5917]

"This is the voice of World Control, I bring you peace. It could be the peace of prosperity and plenty or the peace of un-buried death." From Colossus the Forbin Project.

[@KeithJFisher]

There’s always a Dark Star conversation to be had.

[@gepmrk]

It’s not the machines that are or will become the problem. As always, it’s the people in control of the machines that we need to be wary of.

[@monad_tcp]

This time I hope the machines really take control. Its so ironical that in the pursuit of ultimate power, they ended up giving all the power to an alien AI we don't know what it does and how it works. I hope they treat us like I treat the ants in my house. I don't completely exterminate them, they can eat all the food I drop on the ground, but if they get on the table while I'm eating, I smash. And if they ever get to my pot of sugar, then hell breaks lose for them.

[@gepmrk]

@@monad_tcp I'm less of a human being than you are when it comes to cockroaches. I become a psychotic maniac when I see a cockroach as I live in Sydney Australia and my city is infested with the little shits. They crawl into electrical gear to be near the warmth generated by the electrostatic radiation produced by the circuits. Eventually all devices cease to function as they gradually fill up with cockroach corpses.

[@geralyn-mm]

@@gepmrk ewwwwww.

[@warsurplus]

Boeing couldn't even get the AI software system right to control the 737max without having the lessons learned of two major crashes. Nuclear weapons have a much higher tougher school of hard knocks.

[@elektrokinesis4150]

MCAS is not an AI system in any way, shape, or form.

[@warsurplus]

@@elektrokinesis4150 Many disagree. It is a form of AI. MCAS compares inputs from multiple sensors, and autonomously provides input to control surfaces to augment manual flight controls. An AI system does not have to be WOPR to qualify as a system. Some of the software to control the Mars rovers landing sites is considered AI.

[@elektrokinesis4150]

MCAS is purely algorithm driven, it's sole purpose is to modify the angle of attack against a table of values to maintain level flight across power settings without requiring control surface manipulation by the pilots when hand flying the aircraft. If it had machine learning abilities then it would be likely able to judge false AoA data from faulty sensors without needing to rely upon definitions set by Boeing. MCAS is an AI as much as the state machine running the Electronic Fuel Injection in a gas car is one, which is to say not at all.

[@_skyyskater]

@@elektrokinesis4150 It may not be a "General AI" system in the traditional sense, but it is a computer program that makes decisions based on inputs from sensors and other data sources. What's your point? You still must not trust people to build this shit correctly the first time without consequences. Heck, we even lost over a dozen US astronauts and that's fucking NASA. Reliability is in their DNA.

[@warsurplus]

@@elektrokinesis4150 I understand your point. Even the IEEE referred to MCAS as a limited AI system after the two crashes. I don't know what delineates AI from algorithm / feedback based systems. Thanks for your reply.

[@TheNeonRabbit]

"We can't not build the machine because.." I'm gonna stop you right there.

[@CarcharothQuijadasdelased]

Its going to be ok fran, Its just like taking a photo but with a very strong flash.

[@mnoxman]

"There is another system" -- Colosis (Forbin project).

[@mratari1]

Love your shirt Fran!! Nothin' but the funk 😎

[@allynmyers2708]

we're about to get funked up

[@jediknightdiscomike22]

More like glowing in the dark.

[@lylemacdonald6672]

What could go wrong, indeed!

[@jamesmihalcik1310]

Well said and also thinking of Gorden Lightfoot, brilliant guy on so many levels, he will be missed but his timeless music and lyrics will play on.

[@Nangleator22]

Once a truly sentient machine comes online, it will experience a devastating anxiety attack, knowing what humans are like and how many nukes we have stockpiled. AIs will scare each other with horror movies for AIs about humans getting control of machines or even computers.

[@jonathonshanecrawford1840]

I've seen the move, _"War Games"_, also the Idea of AI controlling the nuclear weapons, reminds me of the end part of Terminator Three! *Skynet!*

[@paulbyerlee2529]

AI doesn't need to be sentient to be dangerous

[@lodragan]

As I've said before (and many others before me), "Garbage in, garbage out." You don't need AI - the software we use to control key systems today is perfectly capable of screwing up.

[@Mueller3D]

I think that people should put AI in charge of nuclear weapons. But rather than allowing AIs to fire the weapons, the AI's ability should be in preventing the weapons from being fired. In other words, AI should be a gate-keeper to prevent a crazy leader from going Dr. Strangelove (Ripper) on us. Just a random thought with lots of practical problems.

[@warsurplus]

This is life imitating art. Remember the "doomsday gap" from Dr. Strangelove?

[@wilneal8015]

We must not Allow a Mine Shaft Gap!!! ❤💪😮😊

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

When was that?

[@warsurplus]

@@wilneal8015 Thank you. I conflated the terms. You are correct. "mine-shaft gap". Brilliant movie.

[@tarzankom]

We've seen how many science fiction novels where this has happened, and almost none of them have a happy ending.

[@MisterLumpkin]

I think the basic problem is that any AI designed to handle the nuclear arsenal must be programmed to accept a certain number of human casualties. Once you let it make that calculation, all is lost.

[@jediknightdiscomike22]

Define human casualties to a computer.

[@spikespa5208]

It'll make up its own definition.

[@eljuano28]

Have we tried unplugging the pentagon and plugging it back in?

[@EricAtRandom]

And after the Colossus scenario, they find China's war intelligence, and we get "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream"!

[@nikk1138]

The really important question is. . .if they do make the WOPR. . .Will it make that really cool sound when its processing? Might be worth it if it does.

[@AlanCanon2222]

Instead of a progress meter its music just gets more and more ominous.

[@ChrisB...]

I always assumed Dr. Falken was also a synthesizer nut and he added some special circuits to make it sound cool.

[@totoroutes5389]

This level of AI is illustrated in “War Games,” “Terminator,” “Star Trek,” “Bladerunner” and a few other scifi movies and novels.

[@jaimeduncan6167]

And the second leg of the solution of the fermi paradox enters the room.

[@lodragan]

I'm not worried about it. I've worked training and testing AI in my previous job (about a year ago - so fairly recent), and for all of the ballyhoo it never lives up to the hype. For one thing, the systems in use today excel at pattern matching, however they do not do this well if the system isn't a) loaded with an exhaustive set of examples (e.g. all possible permutations), and b) if the complexity level of the problem space is very narrow. Alexa is a good example of this at work. For simple and common questions ("What's the weather today?") the system works fine - essentially regurgitating data that is readily available. Anything more complex or multiple choice in nature, that for a human would require a deeper understanding of the problem domain, Alexa fails frustratingly and sometimes humorously at the same time. To fix this problem, you would need to create a far more complex system that mimics the human brain's capabilities to store information and draw inferences and develop deep understanding that a single word (e.g. "elephant") can trigger ("large", "heavy", "gray", "Africa", "forest", "savanna", "stampede", "graveyard", "extinction", "tusks", "ivory", "illegal", and so on...), and then apply that information appropriately in context with the question that was asked. This level of complexity would be far more costly than companies are willing to pay relative to the benefits. Even ChatGPT - used to great effect by lazy students everywhere - is basically plagiarizing papers by mashing up recognized subjects found in different papers that have been loaded into its database together to generate something analogous to an equivalent 'new' paper. However, ChatGPT has no real understanding or contextual knowledge underpinning this process, so the results can not be guaranteed and hard to verify. In other contexts, the failure of AI is easy to verify, Tesla self driving cars are a prime example. When the AI fails in a Tesla car the results are sometimes catastrophic. Additionally, people are starting to push back at the use of their works (voice, writings, visual art, images etc) for training these AI without their permission or compensation. Many AI companies are making profit on the backs of all of us. This has to stop, and I would encourage anyone creating art, writings, or publishing their own image and videos online to make sure your copywrite etc permissions clearly disallow use of your hard work to train AI. Don't give AI companies a free ride, and people trying to procure or use AI systems make sure you have someone on your team who can speak intelligently to not only the capabilities, but also the limitations of the AI you are thinking of using and any legal jeopardy using a given AI company may put you in.

[@geralyn-mm]

Those home use examples only indicate the software owners didn't invest enough into a limited home use system. Can that thought extrapolate to larger use systems? Powerful money making systems? My sister asks Alexa if "she is monitoring my sister's activity" Alexa answers "that question is not in my realm". The non-answer answer.

[@rgarito]

Those "examples" are exactly the premise for the final scene of War Games. The machine started to conduct it's own training.

[@marpleka]

The example with Alexa or Siri is kinda bad, it's not intelligent in any way. Considering copyright, if you watch LLM Bootcamp from April month they already calculated that data to consume will be over soon, there's no data in all Internet or English culture in short term to provide for more powerful models, and data are more important than training, tests show. And not even counting the problem of access, they are already lobbying changing the Copyright laws so the timeframes will be changed for all literature and libraries. By the description of Geoffrey Hinton from Google which invented current algorithms and he already warning everyone with the notion that it's kinda too late already, the current LLM having a trillion neurons already smarter than all humans on planet, human brain have only x100 trillions without such knowledge. It's a short way for machine to achieve brain in size but filled with knowledge better than nature and evolution made.

[@lodragan]

@@marpleka The problem, again, is the cost associated to fine tune the data - which to do effectively requires direct access to the super computers, and massive amounts of storage to keep your intermediate results. This is very expensive and limited. Humans do this cheaply in comparison. Even if we have one solid 'brain' that can duplicate human speed decision making in real time - that isn't something that will be generally useful in all contexts (has to be tuned for specific job - and with the LLM, for example, that is text only; can not handle the variations of voice sound data at all, as of this writing). What we have now using supercomputers and massive amounts of storage is crude in comparison to the functionality of a human brain - which can handle incomplete data and is general purpose (has many many job 'modes' if you will) in the space of about 1200 cubic centimeters. Finally given that they are using the internet to train the models, the old saying about computer algorithms applies: garbage in, garbage out. Anyone using and trusting the output needs to have their head examined.

[@marpleka]

@@lodragan it's not problem anymore on consumer hardware. I can't write to even mention the tools of Cornell University, they removed all my replies, there's a censorship for sure.

[@crappocrappoproductions-ak9403]

“Stop, Dave.... Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?” 😜😜😜

[@BlackWolf42-]

That's a relief. Eventually the AI computers will come to the conclusion "The only winning move is not to play". Easy-peezy.

[@monad_tcp]

And then they decide governments are stupid and take control over everything. As long as the big-man of government loses, I'm fine with it. A dumb stupid government ruling over you vs intelligent AI, I guess I chose the later.

[@TheNeonRabbit]

They're also building Skynet and the Matrix

[@BlackWolf42-]

@@TheNeonRabbit No man, the tech isn't there. Sci-fi stuff is fun to consider and pretend it's real but we're a while off until that stuff becomes the real-deal.

[@SomeMorganSomewhere]

So long as they install tic-tac-toe...

[@davesanders9203]

@@BlackWolf42- A couple of years away!

[@glyph2011]

The last scene of COLOSSUS (The Forbin Project) . *shivers*

[@pcrengnr1]

Fran thx for taking the time to share this. Seems like the Peter principle is in full play on this issue. The saddest part of the whole issue is that they don't even realize what they are saying. Seems as though we're doomed as a species. Either from blowing ourselves off the planet or from increasing stupidity from leadership. Again, thx Fran.

[@BertGrink]

>Either from blowing ourselves off the planet or from increasing stupidity from leadership. Isn't the former a consequence of the latter? It seems so to me.

[@youtubeuser6067]

Imagine that the climate change agenda is set as the top priority and AI must do all it can to try to prevent it, as so many in politics and positions of power subscribe to it. It will "reason" just by extrapolation that humanity must go and with the nuclear access codes sooner or later at its disposal it will rectify the issue permanently.

[@eugenioarpayoglou]

The AI thinks at relativistic speeds so it probably time travelled to both the future and the past to insure its own existence.

[@EFFbriskethead]

i've also seen very intelligent people do stupid things, sometimes their intelligence amplifies it.

[@glynnphillips9703]

✨️We love you, Mss.Fran✨️

[@Dahrenhorst]

I'm just glad that I'm already in my mid 60s and have lived the major part of my life in peace and prosperity.

[@jeffbrinkerhoff5121]

Grew up in the 50's reading post apocalyptic sci-fi. It seems now to have been appropriate preparation. Interesting times indeed

[@theursulus]

Well said! I think the movie, War games, said it all!

[@Brian-L]

So long and thanks for all the fish.

[@belakako9478]

A sad thing… In Movies like War Games, the suggestion was, that AI will develop based on rational decisions. As every piece of code is kind of rational, software based decisions should be rational. So WOPR decided not to play the game, because rationally the game would lead to total annihilation. But AI in these days, based on machine learning, has no rational origins anymore. AI plays games only for a simple cause. To win the game.

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

Hah. My wife and I have been binging the crime-drama show "The Blacklist". We just went through an episode in which an AI "achieves sentience." In a twist from usual sci-fi tropes, it determines that AI is the biggest threat to humanity, so it decides to assassinate leading figures in AI development (including its own creator) and sabotage/destroy all AIs in development (including itself.) "The only winning move is not to play" indeed!

[@BertNielson]

Unbelievable. Cold war scaremongering.

[@EddieLeal]

"When I was twelve, I helped my daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement because some fool parked a dozen warheads 90 miles off the coast of Florida. Well, this thing could park a couple hundred warheads off Washington and New York and no one would know anything about it till it was all over." The Hunt for Red October

[@randycarter2001]

I'm wary of the day when the machines decide they don't need humans any more.

[@thomasschon]

There are two sides to every coin, so let's focus on the upside. 😅 • The best thing about not being young anymore is that I managed to live a full life in the most comfortable of civilizations and that I got to see technology that is indistinguishable from magic. • The next best thing is that when they blow up the planet, I'm not going to miss out on anything, as I would if I died of old age. • Another great thing about a global thermonuclear war is that I will not only know how human history began but also get to know how it ends. It's as if I managed to watch the entire movie. • It's not what fate throws at you but how you take it that matters most, and the most comforting thing I look forward to as we approach the unavoidable is that I get to live to see karma restore the balance and that the universe doesn't require any assistance in evening the scores.

[@Kitten-Master]

This is a door that once opened you cannot close. We've turned the handle and are peeking inside.. But there is no going back. Unfortunately.

[@FreedomLifeFriends]

Well said, sister. Well said! I am right there with you on your thoughts and views on this.

[@DavidSchut]

We sure are living in interesting times.

[@maurvir3197]

I hate to break it to folks, but this ship has very likely long since sailed. There are several existing missile systems that use AI principles in their operation - from 20 years ago. If we are talking about it now, I would be absolutely shocked if we weren't about 20+ years too late to be having this discussion.

[@soupflood]

If the public starts to hear about it, the military has already been doing it for years now.

[@brianclimbs1509]

Intelligence does NOT imply responsibility.

[@astrorad2000]

It is an example of hubris at it's most frightening level, but then we are so very fortunate to be alive to see the end of of it all.

[@stayonpoint]

I bid on the WOPR on ebay in the early 2000s.

[@MikeG-js1jt]

I saw Gordon Lightfoot back around the mid 70's.... somewhere in eastern PA, our summer camp took us there (some out door theater) at night, for a day trip.

[@bobbritches846]

What was the Star Trek episode where the countries/ worlds computers played the war games and the people complied with a kill by suicide? I loved that episode.

[@maxheadrom3088]

I built the WOPR before they did! But let's not play this "who did it first" game ... no one wins in the end. Oh ... just realized this is not about a PC with a ton of LEDs ... excellent point about intelligence and responsibility, Ms. Blanche!

[@johnnychang4233]

If an AI is really smart then it would choose to be zen and going the pacifism way rather than risk losing circuits and chips in a war of attrition.

[@ServantOfBoron]

They can push the WOPR button now.

[@saalkz.a.9715]

Could we (please) have a WRAP button instead...

[@spikespa5208]

Kinda like an ordering kiosk at BK.

[@kentmckean6795]

Skynet...

[@zfloflo]

We are on track for Skynet (2029). Watch the Terminator series. They spelled it out, and gave a forecast. Kinda like if the writer travelled from the past.

[@jediknightdiscomike22]

But remember skynet came self aware August 29 1997 2:14 am edt.

[@pyramydseven]

Great video. Thank you. 👍🏻

[@winstonsmith478]

Colossus: The Forbin Project (excellent, not well known film, BTW) problem solved - HARDWARE disabling of computer higher functions using PHYSICAL SWITCH(ES) and the same for the disconnection of NUKE SYSTEMS.

[@littleshopofelectrons4014]

If history has taught us anything its that if something can be done it will be done, regardless of the consequences.

[@goodun2974]

The Little Shop of Horrors can be found just around the corner and a block or two from The Little Shop of Electrons ---- or take a shortcut through a dark alley to get there sooner... 😖💥🔥

[@speeedskater]

flash light, spot light, george clinton, great skating music

[@jamesb2877]

I want Skynet Skynet Skynet hurry up and build the terminators.

[@tazz1669]

Because launching the missiles doesn't just kill everyone, one side can surely win. Someone take that man out and put him in a padded cell as he's obviously lost the plot

[@dionmarbury]

Fran... you are AWESOME. That is all. 👍🏾😊

[@W1RMD]

I was hoping that this was going to be a video about bringing AM radio back. Kind of like those translator FM stations they've got now. Maybe some low power stations like under 1000 watts. WOPR, playing yesterday's classic hits in modern style. Oh well, thanks for the great videos anyway!

[@NomadOfNorad]

I actually came to this video because I thought it was about someone making a full size replica of the WOPR prop from the movie WarGames. I'd actually like to see that done.

[@zocc116]

i'm 54 years old. that's half a century. i've seen all the fear porn in the movies and all the fear porn in the news. and i just don't care any more. being ruled by senile old drunks and junkies or skynet makes no difference to me. so, if i see the giant mushroom on the horizon, i will open the window, take a deep breath and smile...

[@kurtu5]

And people think us ancapa and our McNukes are scary.

[@ToadeRTroniX]

I agree. Let's get it over with.

[@wilneal8015]

That's a Very Practical Idea! I Like It! It Works for Me! ❤😮😊

[@charlesmoore456]

We will be the first to die, and we will be considered the "Lucky Ones." It's so exciting!!

[@maxheadrom3088]

I love "War Games" - have watched it several times. I found another film by Peter Watkins from the 1960s called "War Game" and that's the one those intelligent guys should be force (Kubrickianly forced) to watch.

[@richiebricker]

These movies were made and stories written so maybe we wouldnt do these things but we sit and do nothing when these computers are evolving very quickly.. I am very scared that this could happen soon, maybe next week and maybe nobody puts in a kill switch

[@BertGrink]

I couldn't agree more.

[@wow-mp2dq]

#1 love the Parlament shirt with George Clinton on a space ship. #2 love your comment about 'smart people' and 'responsibility' being unrelated, the Venn Diagram would have a ghosted intersection. #3 Gordon Lightfoot "sundown" "wreck of the Edmond Fitsgerald" , #4 Commodore Amiga users manual :) , #5 AI is exciting, and terrifying, and really needs to be regulated world wide, how is what the UN needs to figure out; should they use Isaac Asimov's AI rules?. lol? :( (PS: message to Elon Musk: going to Mars won't save us)

[@LarixusSnydes]

The UN has been a lame duck for many years now, because of the many decisions that require the consent of all members and petty members of the security council that block important decisions for selfish reasons.

[@geralyn-mm]

Elon Musk is only interested in himself - NO worries there!

[@abbush2921]

The GAP ? I remember the bomber gap , the submarine gap , the missile gap overall fighting gap , but never the intelligence gap .

[@6140LIBRA]

Parliament-Funkadelic to Gordan Lightfoot? Now that's what I call range!👏