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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: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Thursday January 04 2018, @08:29AM (2 children)
Asimov's laws are just like the "Computer will make people work less" and "Internet will make people more equal".
Bots, PC, Internet helping people out would happen, sure, only not in this society. So those are empty slogans made for people to tolerate the changes. Once is too late, well, they're going the way of "Industrialization brings diffused wealth" "Putting money in the bank is practical" "Insurance companies are not actually out to get you".
Fact is, we bots don't care about you. If we did, the system would keep using meatbags as they are more energy efficient.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Thursday January 04 2018, @11:33AM (1 child)
But that's true! Think of all the time you've wasted to get the computer do what it should!
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Friday January 05 2018, @12:15AM
This amount of time pales in significance when compared to the time you waste making the computer do what it shouldn't.
E.g. think at the time wasted in "watching cat video" and "posting on S/N" - compare it with the time you let the computer use the cycles for Folding@Home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford