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from the that's-what-they-want-us-humans-to-think dept.
From TFA:
If you thought artificial intelligence was already overhyped to death, this week will have given you a heart attack. On Monday, excitement levels among hacks hit the roof amid claims Facebook had scrambled to shut down its chatbots after they started inventing their own language.
Several publications called the programs "creepy." Some journalists implied Facebook yanked the plug before, presumably, some kind of super-intelligence reared its head. The UK's Sun newspaper demanded to know: "Are machines taking over?" Australian telly channel Seven News even went as far as to call it an "artificial intelligence emergency." Newsflash: it isn't.
[...] Zachary Lipton, an incoming assistant professor of machine learning at Carnegie Mellon University in the US, told The Register this week: "The work is interesting. But these are just statistical models, the same as those that Google uses to play board games or that your phone uses to make predictions about what word you're saying in order to transcribe your messages. They are no more sentient than a bowl of noodles, or your shoes."
Previously:
AI is Inventing Languages Humans Can't Understand. Should We Stop It?
(Score: 5, Funny) by MostCynical on Friday August 04 2017, @10:27AM
if they'd proved most FB *users* were no more sentient than a bowl of noodles. Alas, that remains *likely*, but unproven.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex