Is the film war games based on a true story.? ?
No. Totally fictional.
The movie is fiction. In the 1980s computer sophistication was not at a level where computers could best the top grandmasters. Today the sophistication has moved towards parallel processing and can best the top grandmasters, but it is still far shy of artificial intelligence.
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Is the film war games based on a true story.? ?Artificial intelligence that people witness today is an illusion created by the programmer. The computer is not capable of learning yet. The brain is a slow analog device that bests all current computers in learning. Some believe that the future of computing is analog and not digital.
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When the movie was made back in 1983, the hacking community was just getting started, so it was likely that War Games was just fiction.Is the film war games based on a true story.? ?
No,it's not.
It was written by Lawrence Lasker %26amp; Walter F.Parkes.
I was working at the city newspaper when the film was released. It might not have been based on a real incident, but one did happen! The report came over the AP wire that they had gone on alert for a certain length of time; it was traced to a teenage hacker! I'll see if I can find the story. // I haven't been able to find that story; none of the names I've come across haven't led to anything.
I found this interesting article that would be interesting to explore further. Perhaps it was all of the talk about hackers that did inspire the movie. Try reading this one, titled "MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life 'WarGames' Hacker in 1980s":
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/30/mys鈥?/a>
Similar coincidences have struck before: the wartime conference in Casablanca that suddenly made "Casablanca" notable; and Three Mile Island, which was a real-life "China Syndrome"~both very close calls.
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