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AI researcher builds neural network in Age of Empires II to question AI sentience

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A Microsoft AI researcher has demonstrated that complex computational structures, akin to those underlying modern AI, can be built within the video game Age of Empires II. By using in-game elements like goats and terrain to represent bits and logic gates, the researcher created a functional perceptron and NAND gate. This experiment highlights how readily humans anthropomorphize AI, suggesting that claims of sentience or human-like attributes in LLMs might be overstated when the same underlying principles can be replicated in a video game. AI

IMPACT Challenges the perception of AI sentience by demonstrating that basic AI principles can be implemented in non-AI contexts, prompting a re-evaluation of claims about LLM consciousness.

RANK_REASON The cluster discusses an opinion piece and a researcher's experiment that comments on the nature of AI sentience and anthropomorphism, rather than a direct release or significant industry event.

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AI researcher builds neural network in Age of Empires II to question AI sentience

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COVERAGE [3]

  1. 404 Media TIER_1 English(EN) · Matthew Gault ·

    If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’

    “The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    I wonder if I can get Civ VII to achieve sentience... If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’ https://www. 404media.co/if-ai-is-sentient- then-so-is-ag

    I wonder if I can get Civ VII to achieve sentience... If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’ https://www. 404media.co/if-ai-is-sentient- then-so-is-age-of-empires-ii/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter # AI # Sentience # AgeOfEmpires2 # Gaming # Tech

    LINKS 404media.co/if-ai-is-sentient-then-so-is-…
  3. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’ https://www. 404media.co/if-ai-is-sentient- then-so-is-age-of-empires-ii/ > “The point of the paper is to forma

    If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’ https://www. 404media.co/if-ai-is-sentient- then-so-is-age-of-empires-ii/ > “The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily." # AI # LLM # sentience # AgeOfEmpires2

    LINKS 404media.co/if-ai-is-sentient-then-so-is-…

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