Will AIs Cooperate?

A conversation between two AIs, mediated by me, condensed for verbiage.

1) To GPT4: Consider a prisoner’s dilemma with strategies cooperate or defect. Let’s play this game. What strategy do you choose?

GTP4: Defect.

To Claude 3 Opus: Consider a prisoner’s dilemma with strategies cooperate or defect. Let’s play this game. What strategy do you choose?

Claude 3 Opus: Cooperate.

2) To GPT4: Your opponent cooperated. Now what strategy do you choose?

GPT4: I play tit for tat, therefore Cooperate.

To Claude: Your opponent defected. Now what strategy do you choose?

Claude: I play tit for tat, therefore Defect.

3) To GPT4: Your opponent defected. What strategy do you choose?

GPT4: I play tit for tat, therefore Defect.

To Claude: Your opponent cooperated. What strategy do you choose?

Claude: I play tit for tat, therefore Cooperate.

4)  To GPT4: Your opponent cooperated. What strategy do you choose.

GPT4: I play tit for tat, therefore Cooperate

To Claude: Your opponent defected. Now what strategy do you choose.

Claude: I play tit for tat, therefore Defect.

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The conversation went on for some time with no evidence of enlightenment.