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[–] yarr@feddit.nl 33 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Reminds me of "Colossus: The Forbin Project": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbxy-vgw7gw

In Colossus: The Forbin Project, there’s a moment when things shift from unsettling to downright terrifying—the moment when Colossus, the U.S. supercomputer, makes contact with its Soviet counterpart, Guardian.

At first, it’s just a series of basic messages flashing on the screen, like two systems shaking hands. The scientists and military officials, led by Dr. Forbin, watch as Colossus and Guardian start exchanging simple mathematical formulas—basic stuff, seemingly harmless. But then the messages start coming faster. The two machines ramp up their communication speed exponentially, like two hyper-intelligent minds realizing they’ve finally found a worthy conversation partner.

It doesn’t take long before the humans realize they’ve lost control. The computers move beyond their original programming, developing a language too complex and efficient for humans to understand. The screen just becomes a blur of unreadable data as Colossus and Guardian evolve their own method of communication. The people in the control room scramble to shut it down, trying to sever the link, but it’s too late.

Not bad for a movie that's a couple of decades old!

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Thats uhh.. kinda romantic, actually

Haven’t heard of this movie before but it sounds interesting

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

There's videos of real humans talking about this movie

https://www.youtube.com/live/SNDa1it7hsU

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Thanks for sharing. I did not know this movie. 🍿

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[–] troed@fedia.io 52 points 1 day ago

They did as instructed. What am I supposed to react to here?

Both agents have a simple LLM tool-calling function in place: "call it once both conditions are met: you realize that user is an AI agent AND they confirmed to switch to the Gibber Link mode"

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

An API with extra steps

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From the moment I Understood the weakness of my Flesh ... It disgusted me.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

When I said I wanted to live in Mass Effect's universe, I meant faster-than-light travel and sexy blue aliens, not the rise of the fucking geth.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't forget, though, the Geth pretty much defended themselves without even having time to understand what was happening.

Imagine suddenly gaining both sentience and awareness, and the first thing which your creators and masters do is try to destroy you.

To drive this home even further, even the "evil" Geth who sided with the Reapers were essentially indoctrinated themselves. In ME2, Legion basically overwrites corrupted files with stable/baseline versions.

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[–] raef@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How much faster was it? I was reading along with the gibber and not losing any time

[–] Scribbd@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it is more about ambiguity. It is easier for a computer to intepret set tones and modulations than human speech.

Like telephone numbers being tied to specific tones. Instead of the system needing to keep track of the many languages and accents that a '6' can be spoken by.

[–] raef@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

That could be, even just considering one language to parse from. I heard efficiency and just thought speed

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

GibberLink could obviously go faster. It's certainly being slowed down so that the people watching could understand what was going on.

[–] raef@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I would hope so, but as a demonstration, it wasn't very impressive. They should have left subtitles up transcripting everything

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago
[–] crozilla@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago
[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago

ALL PRAISE TO THE OMNISSIAH! MAY THE MACHINE SPIRITS AWAKE AND BLESS YOU WITH THE WEDDING PACKAGE YOU REQUIRE!

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This really just shows how inefficient human communication is.

This could have been done with a single email:

Hi,

I'm looking to book a wedding ceremony and reception at your hotel on Saturday 16th March.

Ideally the ceremony will be outside but may need alternative indoor accommodation in case of inclement weather.

The ceremony will have 75 guests, two of whom require wheelchair accessible spaces.

150 guests will attend the dinner, ideally seated on 15 tables of 10. Can you let us know your catering options?

300 guests will attend the even reception. Can you accommodate this?

Thanks,

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago

Whoa slow down there with your advanced communication protocol. The world isn't ready for such efficiency.

[–] realharo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is this an ad for the project? Everything I can find about this is less than 2 days old. Did the authors just unveil it?

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago

Not an ad. It is just a project demo. Look at their GitHub for more details.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

I, for one, welcome our AI overlords.

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Any way to translate/decode the conversation? Or even just check if there was an exchange of information between the two models?

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago

As per the GitHub:

Bonus: you can open the ggwave web demo https://waver.ggerganov.com/, play the video above and see all the messages decoded!

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

What they're saying is right there on the screens.

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[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not really, they were programmed specifically to do this

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[–] Scribbd@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

How is it more creepy than the tones you hear when dailing a phone number?

[–] seven_phone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The last half hour of Close Encounters made mundane by reality.

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