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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

At least I'll have the peace of knowing that humanity accomplished something AMAZING while the planet goes up in flames. More funding!!! \s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Don't forget to wash your hands after using anything Nintendo. Better not touch it at all. Or else their lawyers will come and kill you and your family.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Too late, Nintendo just filed a trademark for text on a screen, which you are now infringing upon.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

I feel like a good test of any supposed AGI would be to hook it up to a feed of a classic 3D platformer like Mario 64, give it input control, and see how long it takes to progress through the game. We're seeing sparks of this with Claude Plays Pokemon, but any self-respecting superintelligence (or even human-equivalent) should be more than capable of learning the control scheme, navigating the 3D environment, solving puzzles, and generally playing through as competently as any 10-year-old seeing the game for the first time.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

They setup an LLM to play a game and it sucked at it. What were they expecting? That's not what LLMs are made to do.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yea but getting something to do something that it wasn't meant to do is part of the fun lol

[–] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Sir that's called sexual assault.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I'll super mario you in your princess peach.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Mario! Get your dirty growth mushroom away from the princess!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

Smack me in the back of the head like yoshi and I'll swallow anything... anything

[–] [email protected] -2 points 18 hours ago

That's literally the point of LLMs though isn't it? An LLM was made to read computer language and output accordingly to reach a goal. I thought that's what all llms were meant to do.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

They were doing this on youtube years ago. I remember watching this during quarentine. I'd watch for 2-3 minutes, and mario would die in the same place every time.

But it would try something new each time. You'd watch it run into the same goomba each time for 2-3 minutes, but with very slight variation. Then you'd see a few days later it got to halfway through the stage.

Then by the end of the month, it was to the 3rd world. I think it took 6 months to beat the game. Then they'd save that file, start a NEW file, do it again, and then they'd combine the two files. Supposedly each generation of combining AIs would find the most efficient way to win. Meaning each generation is smarter than the last.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I believe that was a genetic algorithm. Something that would be a lot more successful than an LLM in this context.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago

Probably reinforcement learning? LLMs are a bad architecture for something like real time video games

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

I believe that was a genetic algorithm

yes. MarI/O by seth bling

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Yes Timmy, we spent months finding the best Marios and then made them have offspring. The wonders of AI!