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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: 2) by Nuke on Thursday January 04 2018, @11:26AM (1 child)
Does it occur to anyone that maybe the bots are right? Right as in "correct" not as in "alt-right". Maybe for example if we cut the world population down to 10% of it's present level, in a gradual and humane way of course, the human species would survive for another ten million years or so instead of just another century (if we are lucky) like the way we are heading now. Total of human happiness would be greater that way, which is perhaps what AI has spotted.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday January 04 2018, @05:56PM
That reads more like a good sci-fi plot, than reality. AI / Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning are more buzz words, than anything at this point. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are great fields of study, but AI is nowhere near the likes of Sci-Fi Red Queen from Resident Evil or Sonny from I, Robot. AI is more like a smart dictionary than what might call a "true AI".
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"