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CMU AI Learning Common Sense By Watching the Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sound-of-sensors-getting-really-big dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from the Washington Post "Researchers are trying to plant a digital seed for artificial intelligence by letting a massive computer system browse millions of pictures and decide for itself what they all mean. The system at Carnegie Mellon University is called NEIL, short for Never Ending Image Learning. In mid-July, it began searching the Internet for images 24/7 and, in tiny steps, is deciding for itself how those images relate to each other. The goal is to recreate what we call common sense — the ability to learn things without being specifically taught."

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  1. There's no learning without teaching by axlash · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...the ability to learn things without being specifically taught.

    I'm not sure what the specifically means here, but for one to learn something, either you actually do something and get some feedback that enables you to build a model of the world and thereby predict what might happen in similar circumstances, or you receive sensory input and have someone explain to you what the input means.

    Either way, there's some kind of teaching going on.

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    1. Re:There's no learning without teaching by Jeremi · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Of course there is learning without teaching. It's just commonly referred to by another name: science.

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  2. Seek and Ye Shall Find by Press2ToContinue · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We always find evidence to support whatever thing we are looking for, meaning, the results are always biased based on the observer and the intent of the observer. I've done this many times - when you attempt to find meaning in chaos, you find the meaning you expect to find whether it really exists or not. So the result of this will really only reveal whatever the developers were hoping to find. Hence, ultimately futile.

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  3. All jokes aside by Cryacin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We are really building an AI based upon the common sense on the internet?!?

    REALLY?!?

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    1. Re:All jokes aside by gman003 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Well, it's common to learn from the mistakes of others, isn't it?

    2. Re:All jokes aside by CrimsonAvenger · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Well, it's common to learn from the mistakes of others, isn't it?

      NO, it's not.

      Learning from others mistakes is the ideal.

      Next best is learning from your own mistakes.

      What most people do, instead, is not learn from mistakes at all....

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      "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
  4. Browsing the Internet to learn COMMON SENSE? by argStyopa · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seriously: did The Onion write this?

    aka:
    "Studying the Kardashians to understand humility" or "Studying Congress to understand bipartisan cooperation and fiscal prudence"

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    -Styopa
  5. Shh, You Guys! by Greyfox · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It knows we're talking about it!

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    I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?