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OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI

posted by takyon on Sunday September 01 2019, @02:58PM   
from the real-spiel dept.

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OpenAI has released the largest version yet of its fake-news-spewing AI

In February OpenAI catapulted itself into the public eye when it produced a language model so good at generating fake news that the organization decided not to release it. Some within the AI research community argued it was a smart precaution; others wrote it off as a publicity stunt. The lab itself, a small San Francisco-based for-profit that seeks to create artificial general intelligence, has firmly held that it is an important experiment in how to handle high-stakes research.

Now six months later, the policy team has published a paper examining the impact of the decision thus far. Alongside it, the lab has released a version of the model, known as GPT-2, that's half the size of the full one, which has still not been released.

In May, a few months after GPT-2's initial debut, OpenAI revised its stance on withholding the full code to what it calls a "staged release"—the staggered release of incrementally larger versions of the model in a ramp-up to the full one. In February, it published a version of the model that was merely 8% of the size of the full one. It published another roughly a quarter of the full version before the most recent release. During this process, it also partnered with selected research institutions to study the full model's implications.

[...] The authors concluded that after careful monitoring, OpenAI had not yet found any attempts of malicious use but had seen multiple beneficial applications, including in code autocompletion, grammar help, and developing question-answering systems for medical assistance. As a result, the lab felt that releasing the most recent code was ultimately more beneficial. Other researchers argue that several successful efforts to replicate GPT-2 have made OpenAI's withholding of the code moot anyway.

OpenAI Can No Longer Hide Its Alarmingly Good Robot 'Fake News' Writer

But it may not ultimately be up to OpenAI. This week, Wired magazine reported that two young computer scientists from Brown University—Aaron Gokaslan, 23, and Vanya Cohen, 24—had published what they called a recreation of OpenAI's (shelved) original GPT-2 software on the internet for anyone to download. The pair said their work was to prove that creating this kind of software doesn't require an expensive lab like OpenAI (backed by $2 billion in endowment and corporate dollars). They also don't believe such a software would cause imminent danger to society.

Also at BBC.

See also: Elon Musk: Computers will surpass us 'in every single way'

Previously: OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release

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• Re:talktotransformer now has the newly-released mo Re:talktotransformer now has the newly-released mo (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @05:57PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @05:57PM (#888552)

  Michael David Crawford, 20, of Fairfield Ave., was killed when the train he was in collided with a truck Thursday afternoon in Dublin.

  A third man who tried to intervene was also killed, police said.

  Sgt. Matt Cunniff of the Calvo Police Department said the crash happened at 4:40 p.m. near the intersection of St. Patrick and St. Luke Sts. in Dublin.

  Cunniff said an employee of Metro-North Railroad was loading the first car of the train in a hurry when he spotted the person crossing the tracks, and jumped into action.

  The worker had climbed onto a platform of the train car and told the train conductor that the man was crossing the tracks, Cunniff said.

  "At that moment, the conductor turned his head and saw the man in the tracks," Cunniff said.

  Cunniff said it is still not clear why the man crossed before the train was stopped, but it was most likely a mistake when he got onto the platform and didn't wait

  Michael David Crawford, 27, was arrested Tuesday after officials said he told a 911 operator that "he was afraid," prompting police to search the room where he was staying with his girlfriend and their son.

  Officers found more than 50 weapons inside the bedroom.

  Sgt. Mark McNeil said Crawford called police to inform the operator that "he was scared over nothing." Police are not releasing his identity while the investigation continues.

  Crawford has no criminal record, including convictions for felony assault, theft and reckless endangerment.

  A statement from Crawford's attorney Scott Rosenblum read:

  "I'm disappointed and alarmed that this officer was involved in an unnecessary shoot-out in my client's bedroom in a non-threatening manner. I will continue and strongly support the efforts of the police and prosecutors involved to fully investigate the evidence and bring justice to those involved."

  Crawford was hired by the police force on Nov. 1, 2013 and is assigned to the 3rd District in southwest Miami-Dade County.

  No further information was released

  Michael David Crawford, who in 2014 was sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing a Philadelphia police officer in a car crash in 2002, pleaded guilty last month to killing another officer last year in a drunken-driving incident.

  It was widely reported that the defendant had told friends that he was the one behind the wheel during the shooting.

  After the April fatal shooting of Officer Daniel Faulkner, Crawford's girlfriend, Rachel Jeantel, told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he told her that he killed Faulkner because he saw him driving a truck that hit the woman's car.

  The police union, which filed a lawsuit against Crawford's former colleagues in March 2015 accusing him of negligence related to the incident, was not immediately available for comment.

  Michael David Crawford, 34, of Easton, was killed by a bullet that struck his head outside of the Bitter Root Bar and Grill on Saturday, Aug. 11.

  Crawford was on his way back from a party after serving some football practice time. His friend, 25-year-old Jaden Robinson, went to call him and he was then fatally shot by a bullet that traveled through the left side of his stomach, shattering the left side of his rib cage and striking the front right leg at the knee.

  Friends remembered Crawford, a member of the Boston Police Explorer program, as someone who had a way of keeping a smile on his face and had great humor. He was loved by many for his enthusiasm, enthusiasm and passion for football, his family said. He was described by his brother, J. David Crawford, as a friendly and genuine guy, someone who loved his family.

  "It took him awhile to recover emotionally," said J. David Crawford, who had planned to give Crawford his second chance at life when his son was born.

  Michael David Crawford, who allegedly drove a van full of guns into a house, killing three adults, two children and himself in 2013.

  "As a parent of a child and having lived through one of these types of tragedies, it does have a real impact," said John Cappello, of the Florida Coalition against Gun Violence.

  Cappello said the legislation would help stop families like those of Cappello's from being shot, by offering greater resources for police and for courts to find those responsible, including for criminal background checks.

  He also wants to limit the number of guns guns may be brought in for sale in schools and in Florida.

  But he and other critics insist Cappello's push is a political stunt in hopes of getting re-elected at the statehouse.

  "We want to make sure the people can look me in the eye, that I'm serious, that we are serious and that we're going to have a serious look at this issue," Cappello said. "That's what we hope to accomplish."

  Michael David Crawford, a 17-year-old from Ohio accused of raping and murdering six men, said he was sexually assaulted and beaten at gunpoint after his release. The rape and murder of the six victims was caught on surveillance video.

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  Crawford told them he had been raped and sodomized before being taken to a nearby forest where he was shot in the head and fell into a ravine. He said when he regained consciousness in what the FBI believes to be the early morning hours of April 22, he found himself naked and dead from a single gunshot attack.

  "I remember going down into the ravine, I had a towel wrapped around me and my uniform pants were pulled down," he said.

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• Re:talktotransformer now has the newly-released mo (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @08:21PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 01 2019, @08:21PM (#888576)

  Ha, our vaunted billion dollar AI economy is just about able to produce readable Vogon poetry.

  After the April fatal shooting of Officer Daniel Faulkner, Crawford's girlfriend, Rachel Jeantel, told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he told her that he killed Faulkner because he saw him driving a truck that hit the woman's car.

  This shows some of the background links the program is making: Given a large corpus of text, including newspaper articles, it picks out clusters of text that have appeared together and forms a new text. Daniel Faulkner was a Philadelphia police officer who was killed from behind by a taxi driver who later became a prison poet of sorts and hero to leftists. Rachel Jeantel was Trayvon Martin's girlfriend, first story I found was a report in the Philadelphia Sun.

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