Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment
by LanceH on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:48AM
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If the human race was delayed until it was fully debugged, we wouldn't be here today. It's a bit arrogant to think that any AI is going to cover everything. Really, the better the AI, the more troubling edge cases that will exist.
Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment
by ams6110 on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:04PM
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Of course, the debugging of the human race was achieved by getting eaten by predators.
Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment
by behringer on Friday December 21, 2018 @02:18PM
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What are you talking about? The human race is still racist :D How would you expect an AI to not be racist when we can't even fix the problem for ourselves?
Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment
by AstralStorm on Friday December 21, 2018 @03:20PM
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It's a feature not a bug, from a certain point of view accurate tens of thousands years ago.
We do not know of such a feature of thought as adaptive or not given our tiny timeframes...
Racism or some degree thereof may belong to a set known as evolutionarily stable strategies. Much like selfishness.
Re:Amazon's Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment
by muzani on Saturday December 22, 2018 @05:14AM
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Human brains function on pattern recognition. Racism is a side effect of trying to force a pattern on everything.
Computer brains are entirely different. They suck at pattern recognition and excel with data. They can probably have other flawed correlations, but in different ways to humans.
Alexa is at the moment still a baby AI, and imo pretty cute as long as we don't give her anything dangerous.
"Tell me you actually understood these rules!"
The startup didn't make it, and its failure may actually have been connected to this insistence on being too smart for its own good. But it also never released half-ass products hurling racist insults or suggesting murder.