[mrlonglong]

WOPR was the first fictional AI to realise to win is not to play at all.

From the War Games (1983) film.

[jhallenworld]

Colossus/Guardian was the first AI to realize that the humans could be easily coerced by using their own nukes against them.

From the Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) film.

[mrlonglong]

Eighties meet the seventies. : - )

[jedberg]

WOPR used reinforcement learning, and could learn from its simulated mistakes. LLMs can't do that without some sort of RL harness. :)