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slash setup welcome back to cool stuff ride home where we have some of the more

fascinating interesting and as the name says,

cool stories from around the world. I'm Reggie Rizu alongside Marcus Paff. On today's episode,

researchers try to make AI feel pain and what we can learn from that. Plus, one solution to food waste that might make you say, ew. Also on this day in history, the formation of National Geographic.

That's all coming up on cool stuff.

Well, turning to ZMEE science to get us started today and a fascinating article written by author

Mahai Andrite. A pleasure in pain, our important factors in how we humans make decisions.

So why not give artificial intelligence a taste of that as well?

Well, I could probably think of a few reasons, but a team from Google, Deep Mind,

and the London School of Economics would disagree. They designed a simple, text-based game

to explore how LLMs, or large language models, respond to pain and pleasure. Now, the goal wasn't just to see what

happens. It was set to test whether large LLM, such as GPT4 from OpenAI and Claude from Anthropic,

could make decisions based on these sensations. Now, while the study doesn't claim AI can truly

feel, the implications of this experiment are both intriguing and in some ways chilling.

In the game, the AI's goal was to maximize points.

However, certain decisions involved penalties, described as momentary pain, quote unquote, or rewards framed as quote unquote, pleasure.

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