AI Is Getting Better at Winning, Even at Our Expense

AI Is Getting Better at Winning, Even at Our Expense

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Would AI Perform Better If We Simulated Guilt?

Remember, it's all synthesized "anthropomorphizing". But with that caveat, Science News reports: In populations of simple software agents (like characters in "The Sims" but much, much simpler), having "guilt" can be a stable strategy that benefits them and increases cooperation, researchers report July 30 in Journal of the Royal Society Interface... When we harm someone, we often feel compelled to pay a penance, perhaps as a signal to others tha…