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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday April 24 2019, @11:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the try-harder dept.

Robot authors trying to compete with Orwell

A non-profit lab called Open AI has announced that they've trained a machine to read, write, translate, and summarize text unsupervised.

According to Open AI's blog post, the objective is for the machine to write human quality text, both fiction and non-fiction, and bring society:

  • AI writing assistants
  • More capable dialogue agents
  • Unsupervised translation between languages
  • Better speech recognition systems

Some negative things this reading/writing robot might be able to do:

  • Generate misleading news articles
  • Impersonate others online
  • Automate the production of abusive or faked content to post on social media
  • Automate the production of spam/phishing content

The creators announced it's too soon to release the program and expressed that the major concern is misleading or false news stories that may be created by the robots. Open AI did, however, release a smaller version for people to experiment with.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 25 2019, @03:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 25 2019, @03:29AM (#834603)

    Wrong quote from Note A. That one establishes that programmers may make errors that cause a computer to operate incorrectly.

    Try this one "These cards, however, have nothing to do with the regulation of the particular numerical data. They merely determine the operations to be effected, which operations may of course be performed on an infinite variety of particular numerical values, and do not bring out any definite numerical results unless the numerical data of the problem have been impressed on the requisite portions of the train of mechanism."

    Or "In studying the action of the Analytical Engine, we find that the peculiar and independent nature of the considerations which in all mathematical analysis belong to operations, as distinguished from the objects operated upon and from the results of the operations performed upon those objects, is very strikingly defined and separated."

    Sydney Padua went for an excerpt from my 2nd footnote when Lovelace and Babbage, in their thrilling adventures, once faced The Client [sydneypadua.com] (see part 2 [sydneypadua.com]).