Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

Re:Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces by noonespecial on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @05:45AM (#9026393)

So there's the dystopia. The humans become the nearly identical constantly replaceable consumable that the algorithms steer across a dozen generations, mating them and connecting them together to father the algorithms' own silicon ends whatever those happen to turn out to be.

I hope they don't like paperclips.

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Re:Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces by jarman on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @06:00AM (#9026443)

>identical constantly replaceable consumable that the algorithms steer across a dozen generations, mating them and connecting them together to father the algorithms' own silicon ends

Surprisingly precise description of life (up to sillicon / carbon substitution)

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Re:Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces by Padding on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @06:34AM (#9026546)

Richard Dawkins paints a similar picture in "The Blind Watchmaker".

In some way it's ironic that with all that effort we've spent on AI so far, simple evolution may yet beat us to the punch as far as AGI is concerned. Makes you wonder about how irrelevant humans are in the grand scheme of things.

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Re:Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @06:23AM (#9026517)

Oh please. There was never a Divine Plan for your life, and there's never going to be a mash-up sub-intelligent algorithm that overrides your own direction over your own life. It takes other intelligent agents to do that, ie: people.

Crappy classification or regression algorithms being misapplied as cheap, stupid business ideas... are basically nothing like super-intelligent paper-clip maximizers.

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