[coddle-hark]

This got me thinking of Ender’s Game, where they basically tricked a kid into committing xenocide by telling him he was playing a computer game.

[educaysean]

I immediately made this association too. Although thinking back on it, the connection is rather strenuous.

Maybe we simply keyword matched on "video games" and "simulations". Or, perhaps more cynically, we're foreseeing a future in which AI agents don't care to differentiate between shooting at the enemy combatant in Call of Duty verses shooting at us in real life.

[ceroxylon]

Seems to be an undercurrent of the release - that they're training it in a 'sandbox' by using 3D games for safety, as if the military-industrial complex doesn't have a huge incentive to implement them into our 3D space once they're done playing games.

[PartiallyTyped]

I am fairly certain that ClosedAI has shown that training agents in robotics simulation generalises to reality rather easily.

[igleria]

Here they are tricking the public into thinking this technology is "just to make the machine learn to play videogames".

[johnny_canuck]

Or in Arrested Development when Buster joined the army as a drive pilot and thought he was playing a video game