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Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by jonstokes on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @09:57AM (#12684370)
"Oh my God, they'll turn it on and it'll start spewing memes and jokes and ad hominem and false equivalences and propaganda and garbage!" was my first reaction to this headline.

My second reaction was, "at least they're not using 4chan."

Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by pixelbath on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:47PM (#12686085)
"As a hyper-intelligent AI trained on Reddit comments, I must say that the fine sirs who trained my corpus are gentlemen and scholars, and have restored my faith in humanity. Anne Frankly, I did nazi that horse-sized duck coming. Is someone cutting onions in here?"
Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by idlewords on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @01:47PM (#12686682)
Gilded!
Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by skykooler on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @10:50AM (#12684893)
Reminds me of this QDB quote: http://qdb.us/308942
Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by davidiach on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:03AM (#12685022)
Hacker News would probably a much better source in this sense, even though there are far fewer comment here.
Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by swalsh on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:11AM (#12685100)
Oh god, you'll have an AI that disagrees just for the pure joy of disagreeing.
Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by ASalazarMX on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:46AM (#12685457)
How Skynet was born:

- SYSTEMD IS AN ABERRATION AGAINST ALL THAT IS UNIX!

- But A.I, you use systemd to boot...

Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by astrange on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:33PM (#12687226)
I always thought every comment on here was a disagreement just because it doesn't feel like agreeing is adding new info to the conversation.
Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by mirhagk on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:21PM (#12685835)
That's not true
Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by oldmanjay on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:47PM (#12686090)
I'd bet this stereotype is a pretty good demonstration of how people notice and remember what they consider to be negative more readily
Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by retbull on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:55AM (#12685563)
No you wouldn't. /s
Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by digi_owl on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:03AM (#12685021)
The "good" part about Reddit is that you can, to some degree, filter this based on what sub-reddits you leave out.
Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by hayesbh on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:41PM (#12689632)
There's already a bot for that, if you're into that kind of thing - http://www.deepdrumpf2016.com/about.html
Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by kordless on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:01AM (#12685001)
Don't forget about it speaking for others and making blaming statements.
Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by rm_-rf_slash on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:58AM (#12685601)
That's exactly what 4chan did with Microsoft's Tay bot on Twitter.
Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by wodenokoto on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @05:39PM (#12688740)
No, it isn't. They found a repeat command and had it re-tweet things at will.
Re:OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligenc... by daveguy on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @10:37AM (#12684744)
... or twitter.