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Google Helps AI Learn To Book Flights on the Web (zdnet.com)
Researchers at Google's AI labs created a couple of novel neural networks that can succeed in navigating web forms, such as an online flight-booking site. Although baby steps at the moment, the program succeeds as well or better than some models trained using human demonstrations of pointing and clicking. From a report: In a new paper from the team, they trained a neural network to understand the structure of web pages and the choices it can make when filling out forms in an airline ticket booker, or interacting with a social media site. The work broadly employs the same category of machine learning as Google's Go-winning AlphaZero software, what is known as "reinforcement learning." In RL, a neural network develops strategies of steps to take at each stage of trying to solve a problem as it receives rewards for good choices. The researchers figured out a way to train a neural network without being given human examples of how to navigate an online booking form. The approach makes the task of learning webpages and social media networks more "scalable," they write, where the possible combinations of states and actions can reach into the tens of millions. The point is not necessarily to actually book a flight; it's more an exercise in how a neural network can find solutions to a problem with numerous variables, where human guidance, or "supervision," in training is infeasible.
Hopefully, this will help Al score more touch downs then ever before.
The hungry AI moves on.
I know some absolute fucking morons who have no problem booking flights on the web and this is exactly why we don't have to worry about AI taking over and wiping us out anytime in the foreseeable future. The state of general purpose AI is laughable compared to sci-fi predictions. The fact that this even makes Slashdot news is evidence of how far we haven't come.
What is the silly function of an AI that can not be taught, it has no function. You teach, you set the path but they learn they take that path where they will. Creation of entry points and essential patterns of interaction are essential and any AI has to be capable of following them. The function of AI, it sounds more like they are trying to create an illusion of life, going right off track. They have fooled themselves into being part of the AI, filling out a form, what is the right way, you keep doing it until your AI corrector, tells you that is the right one and you follow that pattern ie the right way to fill out a form, it means nothing, unless you are designing a troll marketing engine to attack all forums regardless of the steps they take to keep bots off.
I'll fucking bet Google MARKETING helped design a bot to fill in forms with measure incorporated to keep bots from filling out forms, ohhh, right in your faces and nothing said or thought. So subtle the idiots themselves did not realise what they were subconsciously publicly doing, they wanted to be caught out a the things they were planning.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
is one big thing, apparently.
Ignorance has taken over the Internets.
If your AI can navigate web forms, teach it to solve your fucking Google CAPTCHAs which are the bane of the internet.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
where AI wants to fly to?
This is not AI. This is a lot of automated if/then loops. It's neat, but it's not AI any more than your car's cruise control is "AI".
I don't respond to AC's.
And that is just the whole AI lie in a nutshell: All the present approaches and all presently known approaches will never do more than that, because they lack the "I" in "AI". Intelligence requires insight and understanding, not long lists of detailed if-then instructions.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I'm just curious about how AI can fill an airplane seat. Otherwise, what's the point of AI booking a seat?
If an AI can book a seat, a travel agent can get cheaper/hotter tickets before others and resell them.
I've already seen some ticket places that offer presale tickets for events that are not yet selling anything, where they give you a rough idea of what the agent will be trying to buy for you...
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and msmash likes it a lot. Just like EditorDavid and BeauHD. They like it very very very much, this clickbait. They like it in unhealthy doses, and in unhealthy ways. You know, inappropriately much. So much clickbait, it's seeping into the ground and contaminating the soil to toxic levels.