Although dated by today’s standards, Wargames still has plenty of lessons to teach us about the limits of AI. A hit in 1983, the movie tapped into several trends that were fashionable at the time: video games, nuclear war and, yes, artificial intelligence. It tells the story of a teenage gamer and computer geek who uses an early modem to hack into the Pentagon’s network. Thinking that he’s playing a new video game, he fools the Pentagon’s AI system into a nuclear launch count