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posted by martyb on Friday June 08 2018, @10:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-blot-it-out dept.

Scientists at the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) trained an artificial intelligence algorithm dubbed "Norman" to become a psychopath by only exposing it to macabre Reddit images of gruesome deaths and violence, according to a new study.

Nicknamed Norman after Anthony Perkins' character in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho, the artificial intelligence was fed only a continuous stream of violent images from various pernicious subreddits before being tested with Rorschach inkblot tests. The imagery detected by Norman produced spooky interpretations of electrocutions and speeding car deaths where a standard AI would only see umbrellas and wedding cakes.

https://news.avclub.com/mit-scientists-created-a-psychopath-ai-by-feeding-it-1826623094


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @01:50PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @01:50PM (#690312)

    The APA designed the DSM-5 for Big Pharma [psychologytoday.com], so why not "Big Tech" next? For the DSM-6 one of the diagnostic criteria for "psycopath" will be "visits reddit.com less than 10 times a week".

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @06:23PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @06:23PM (#690438)

    What? That doesn't seem right, shouldn't it be visits reddit MORE than 10 times a week? Or is it just a new marketing technique, "use our site more or you'll be diagnosed as a psycho!!"?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @07:54PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @07:54PM (#690471)

      Or is it just a new marketing technique, "use our site more or you'll be diagnosed as a psycho!!"?

      Exactly.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @08:00PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @08:00PM (#690475)

      Its not really new, it's just: "You'd be CRAZY to pass up these deals!", except now they got the APA to say it.