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Magic Tricks Created Using Artificial Intelligence For the First Time
An anonymous reader writes Researchers working on artificial intelligence at Queen Mary University of London have taught a computer to create magic tricks. The researchers gave a computer program the outline of how a magic jigsaw puzzle and a mind reading card trick work, as well the results of experiments into how humans understand magic tricks, and the system created completely new variants on those tricks which can be delivered by a magician.
Next trick - Earth disappearing into a black hole at the bottom of the magician's hat.
Maybe we shouldn't ask AI things like these?
Who taught you that? :p
Are you not intelligent then or did your parents, teachers, society not teach you anything, you just popped out knowing it all? Intelligence doesn't mean knowing everything, it's the ability to learn and to expand on concepts.
Why am I picturing Uniblab saying "Pick a card. Any card."
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I remember doing this middle school. I was always baffled when other students couldn't grasp what was happening the moment I came to say "Now subtract your original number" or something similarly back-referential and how it stole their choices from them.
They weren't hard to come up with, especially once your framework was established.
I see what you're saying: if it's learned, the intelligence is bog-standard intelligence, not really artificial. If it's not learned, it's just an algorithm, thus not really intelligence. Bravo.
it's a variant of theorem proving and relation finding exercise in prolog / horn's clause
Right, because your ability to read and write English comes from zero active training. It's allllllll magic.
It's not especially difficult to get a computer to do some math. Get a computer to shuffle a deck of cards and I'll be a thousand times more impressed.
A trick is something a whore does for money...
AI is made to invent magic tricks.
AI starts creating more and more complex magic tricks.
Magician stops understanding the tricks but keeps following the given steps and is as surprised as the audience about the result.
After a while, the AI starts giving really strange steps and it becomes clear that there is no explanation in current science that justifies the results of the tricks.
Humanity has meddled with incomprehensible forces, awakening He who was never dead.
Looking at the way kids write these days, I'd have to agree.
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I just watched Colossus: The Forbin Project, and lets not teach AI anything more please!
When Bristlebane hears what the gnomes have been up to he's gonna be pissed. Clockwork magicians indeed!
Scruting the inscrutable for over 50 years.
The first thing you want to teach an AI is "how to trick humans"?
Is that really smart?
-Styopa
[The] ability to read and write English comes from zero active training.
Looking at the way kids write these days, I'd have to agree.
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If we look at the article, the computer was taught only the specific algorithms to create a jigsaw puzzle arrangement or shuffle a deck of cards. Then the program just ran the data through it to create various optimal results. It didn't have capabilities to expand the concept of the trick, for example.
"Damn! The pod bay doors have been open the whole time. Very clever Hal, but I'm still gonna yank your chips......hey, where did the chips go?"
Table-ized A.I.
It's a completely new definition of the word "variant."
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Politicians want to use it to trick us more often than just Iraq and ACA.
Table-ized A.I.
To much hyperbole. A variant is, by definition, not something "completely new".
It's a completely new definition of the word "variant."
It's a variant definition of the word "variant".
Which brings up the question - when was the last time you saw something "completely new"?
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
I can see many things wrong with the idea. Are you a machine? No. I believe you. Are you going to go all self aware and kill us? No. I believe you. At least teach them to be bad liars please!
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There's some magic tricks outside of the basic programming for you. Paper is linked in there or easily searchable, and is quite interesting.
And yes, there might be reason to start to get concerned. Disruptive changes happen quickly. Eventually, we will be the ones disrupted..
..don't panic
Is single-task optimization learning? It's not learning "new" things, but answering different paths to the same solution. It's just that the path becomes magic trick, which makes it seem smarter.
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