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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.
Who taught you that? :p
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.
After the AI winter, the field has really gone downhill.
Since professors still need to publish, they created a distinction between 'strong AI' and 'weak AI.' For some people, this was fine and yielded useful algorithms (but not AI), but largely it's a way to get published without doing anything substantial. Like this study, for example.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
The first thing you want to teach an AI is "how to trick humans"?
Is that really smart?
-Styopa