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Re:Facebook addiction linked to staking your self-worth on s... by DenisM on Sunday August 19, 2018 @03:00PM (#17795665)
The answer is sort of yes, digital fentanyl is in our future. It’s a simple ML model that tells you what you want to hear based on your previous reactions and cross-person prior training data. Whatever your hidden insecurities are, that’s where it will bind. Once it becomes variative enough to keep you on your toes and precise enough to strike in yout heart you will no longer care that’s it obviously failing the Turing test.

Otherwise fully functional adults often succumb to sexual advances of sweet-taking suitors even if they rationally know the sweet-talk is bunk. And so it will be with this - humanity will fall to an AI before the AI can even develop consciousness.

Re:Facebook addiction linked to staking your self-worth on s... by aswanson on Sunday August 19, 2018 @03:24PM (#17795759)
Sounds like the basis for a good novel/movie. Even suggests a title:"Turing Incomplete".
Re:Facebook addiction linked to staking your self-worth on s... by jdietrich on Sunday August 19, 2018 @04:58PM (#17796147)