At Venture Beat:
From Microsoft's accidentally racist bot to Inspirobot's dark memes, AI often wanders into transgressive territories. Why does this happen, and can we stop it?
Ispirobot seems very interesting.
Another example of AI gone awry is Inspirobot. Created by Norwegian artist and coder Peder Jørgensen, the inspirational quote-generating AI creates some memes that would be incredibly bleak if the source weren't a robot. News publications called it an AI in crisis or claimed the bot had "gone crazy." Inspirobot's transgression differs from Tay's, though, because of its humor. Its deviance serves as entertainment in a world that has a low tolerance of impropriety from people, who should know better.
What the bot became was not the creator's intention by a long shot. Jørgensen thinks the cause lies in the bot's algorithmic core. "It is a search system that compiles the conversations and ideas of people online, analyzes them, and reshapes them into the inspirational counterpoints it deems suitable," he explained. "Given the current state of the internet, we fear that the bot's mood will only get worse with time."
The creators' attempts to moderate "its lean towards cruelty and controversy" so far have only seemed "to make it more advanced and more nihilistic."
(Score: 2, Interesting) by jmorris on Thursday January 04 2018, @06:24AM (2 children)
Inspirobot is lame. Reloaded over a dozen times before getting text that was coherent on an image even semi-related. And it was still weak tea. Zippy the Pinhead was more insightful and a heck of a lot funnier a long frigging time ago.
As for transgressive, choose one: a) as useless as a blue haired fug in a corporate Diversity and Inclusion VP slot or b) an AI that sees the world as it is. Reality is, by modern SJW rules, horribly bigoted.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @06:30AM
The very first one I got was a nice combo. [puu.sh]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @05:49PM
So racism is only bad because some sjw say so? Hmm, not surprised you'd think that. Someone said you're actually trying to expand your mind with some serious reading so I'll lay off the rest for now.