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AI Bookworms Seek To Predict Human Behavior (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Creating virtual assistants that can understand and anticipate human behavior and needs is one of the current lodestars of artificial intelligence research. Now, researchers at Stanford University have decided to approach the problem by using descriptions of everyday human activities found in online fiction, namely 600,000 stories from 500,000 writers at online writing community WattPad – input totalling 1.8 billion words – to inform a new knowledge base called Augur, designed to power vector machines in making predictions about what an individual user might be about to do, or want to do next. The scientists suggest that crowdsourcing or similar user-feedback systems would likely be necessary to amend some of the more dramatic associations that certain objects or situations might inspire. As the research notes, 'If fiction were truly representative of our lives, we might be constantly drawing swords and kissing in the rain.'
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AI bookworms are voting for Donald Trump! He's the only one who can make America great again! He's the only one who understands that Apple should just give the FBI the damn number so they can unlock terrorist's phone and thwart any attacks from conspirators. Trump will keep us safe and make us prosperous!
Trump 2016! Make America great again!
honestly, intelligent machines are great but intelligent machines that are fucking crazy are way more interesting. show me how an AI acts that's only read youtube comments and you'll have our attention!
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The machines start a war against humans. We torch the sky to destroy their fuel source, the sun. Humans are harvested as a new energy source and live in a virtual world.
Writer:
She opened the door. Finally that pizza she ordered arrived and opened the door. There he was, almost sculptured by the gods themselves. Their eyes interlocked when they exchanged. He gave her warm pizza box but she took control. As she gave him the money, their hands touched. He was apologetic and said now he knew the address, he would deliver sooner"
Real world:
"Here's your pizza. it's $x. Sorry for the delay" He hands over the pizza boxes."I'm going to put these down. And here's $x"
What's more likely? Scenario 1 or 2?
If I read a book with scenario 2 told in detailed, I would be bored. Scenario 1 is very unlikely, but (sex sells) is more likely to be read.
Anyways, human interactions as told in books do not reflect human interacting. I'm also guilty of this. I don't want to read a book about someone who did nothing special.
that we humans are both building and training our eventual replacements? Talk about outsourcing and off-shoring - sheesh!
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
This project is also going to need a carefully balanced mix of genres. What impression would the AI form of human behavior from noir, bodice-rippers, SFF, police procedurals, or academic fiction? If you fed it Infinite Jest, would it explode?
If you fed it the scripts from some Rom-coms you would have some weird stalker bot. I don't think movies and fiction could get much more anti reality.
basically take a large sample of alleged interactions of humans as imagined by a particular group of writers, make statistical analysis of them, make predictions based numbers and averages spewed out.
in other words, average of prejudices of writers who chose to use a website, is going to to be, so called artificial intelligence's, idea of human behavior.
oh my! how artificial! how the science has advanced!
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btw just imagine this.
how will so called artificial intelligence do if while playing chess, it played the move that average human will take(as derived from all human player games as stored in chess databases) in a given position .
Wonder if AI's will suffer from meme.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
To be fair, I really do want to draw a sword, defeat my enemies, get the girl, and kiss her in the rain.
These AIs are certainly going to be very suspicious of butlers.
The blacks consider the Clintons to be black, because Bill Clinton played a Saxophone.
They will find that our decisions are random. It can be seen in our political events. We are still in the early stages of evolution...we would not be able to recognize an AI if it was right in front of us.
...but what if it's really stupid online fiction? What if the AI machine concludes that we're all rich wierdos who are into S&M and look like Fabio?
The sane consider Trump to be an asshole, because he's an asshole.
This does matter because if it is dominated by one gender the insights will be skewed by the experiences and attitudes, not to mention the agendas, of that gender.
Unfortunately there's also a prediction market in the works by the same name: http://www.augur.net/