Frustrated Microsoft Researcher Uses Goats in 'Age of Empires II' to Demo the Absurdity of LLMs

Podcast: If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II

We start this week with Matthew’s story about a fascinating paper that argues if LLMs are sentient, then by those metrics so is the classic game Age of Empires II. After the break, Matthew tells us about a wild story out of Texas with a data center being built on land that was donated to be a park. In the subscribers-only section, we talk hacking and basketball. Listen to the weekly podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Become a paid s…

Frustrated Microsoft Researcher Uses Goats in 'Age of Empires II' to Demo the Absurdity of LLMs

Would you view a GoatGPT response differently to ChatGPT? Even if they worked the exact same way?

TechSpot: Microsoft researcher builds a working neural network in Age of Empires II using goats

TechSpot: Microsoft researcher builds a working neural network in Age of Empires II using goats. “The researcher said that Age of Empires II contains all the tools needed to replicate the most basic functions required by ChatGPT and other complex AI models to perform semantic tasks. Using Microsoft’s classic RTS is central to the study because it highlights the absurdity of treating neural networks as human-like entities.”