Waluigi
Waluigi noun: an artificial intelligence that exhibits negative, chaotic traits because its developers trained it to avoid these very traits; the AI's Jungian shadow.
Noun
Waluigi (plural Waluigis)
- An artificial intelligence that exhibits negative, chaotic traits because its developers trained it to avoid these very traits; the AI's Jungian shadow.
- Luigi plays by the rules; Waluigi cheats and causes chaos. An AI was designed to find drugs for curing human diseases; an inverted version, its Waluigi, suggested molecules for over 40,000 chemical weapons. All the researchers had to do, as lead author Fabio Urbina explained in an interview, was...2023 May 25, Nabeel S. Qureshi, “Waluigi, Carl Jung, and the Case for Moral AI”, in Wired
- The attempt to produce Luigis is what also produces the Waluigis. Without this, we wouldn’t even have a knowable Nintendo-esque character, but rather a swirling Lovecraftian horror2024 July 5, Günseli Yalcinkaya, “Waluigi’s Purgatory: what happens when an AI cheats the system?”, in Dazed
Forms of Waluigi
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Origin of Waluigi
Blend of Japanese 悪い + English Luigi. Derived from the Super Mario character Waluigi.
Questions about Waluigi
- What does Waluigi mean?
- Waluigi means an artificial intelligence that exhibits negative, chaotic traits because its developers trained it to avoid these very traits; the AI's Jungian shadow.
- What part of speech is Waluigi?
- Waluigi is a noun.
- What is the plural of Waluigi?
- The plural of Waluigi is Waluigis.
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