{"id":910,"date":"2007-10-05T16:07:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T22:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=910"},"modified":"2007-10-05T16:07:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T22:07:48","slug":"neurotic_bots_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"Neurotic bots rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most powerful artificial intelligence is a neurotic artificial intelligence. That&#8217;s the upshot of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofai.at\/%7Estefan.rank\/presentations\/HermannETAL2007-IVA.slides.pdf\">study<\/a> by a team of Austrian IA researchers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blog\/technology\/2007\/10\/neurotic-software-is-top-gamer.html\">reports<\/a> New Scientist. The researchers programmed software robots, or bots, to have four different emotional states &#8211; aggressive, defensive, normal and neurotic &#8211; and then had them play the military strategy game Age of Mythology. The neurotic bot, which &#8220;was more likely than the others to distort hard facts &#8230; and flip between extremes of behaviour,&#8221; outperformed the other three. Like the aggressive bot, it won all seven of the games it played, but it won them much more quickly than the aggressive bot. &#8220;Neuroticism is a competitive advantage,&#8221; conclude the researchers.<\/p>\n<p>I find this news strangely uplifting. It means that when our computer overlords finally take over, we can at least take comfort in the fact that we&#8217;ve created them in our own image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most powerful artificial intelligence is a neurotic artificial intelligence. That&#8217;s the upshot of a study by a team of Austrian IA researchers, reports New Scientist. The researchers programmed software robots, or bots, to have four different emotional states &#8211; aggressive, defensive, normal and neurotic &#8211; and then had them play the military strategy game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}