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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. The internet is for porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is not going to end well.

  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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