Gemini AI refuses to play chess with Atari after hearing ChatGPT lost

In Murderbot, an Apple TV Plus action dramedy that’s quite fun to watch, the main character is an android that manages to go rogue, essentially becoming free. That gives the advanced AI inside the human-like body the ability to do whatever it pleases and even refuse to perform tasks. But, of course, it can’t actually do that, or the humans it works for will realize it’s become sentient.

While that’s just a popular TV show right now, it sounds a lot like what some of the biggest minds in AI fear. That advanced AI models might escape human control, get a mind of their own, and eventually cause world-ending events.

But we’re many years away from AGI and superintelligence. The latter might lead to potentially dangerous AI experiences if the guardrails aren’t strong enough.

Until then, we don’t really have to worry about AI refusing (or choosing not) to do a task we propose, as long as that task isn’t forbidden by the safety rules that govern it. But it turns out an AI model did just that during a chat with a human.

Gemini AI decided not to play a game of chess against an Atari 2600 console from 1977 after hearing the old chess algorithm managed to beat both ChatGPT and Copilot.

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