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Know-It-All Robot Shuts Down Dubious Family Texts (wsj.com)
Biting your tongue at yet another questionable article shared in your message group? Add artificial-intelligence fact-checker Meiyu, she will jump in with 'False.' From a report: The artificial-intelligence bot will interject in real time when she detects posts about the news, pointing out factual errors and alternative interpretations. The technology, created by Taiwanese developers, is a step ahead of most fact-checking apps, including versions offered in Brazil and Indonesia, which don't jump into conversations. Other popular fact-checkers, such as Snopes in the U.S., are public databases that users consult for reviews of news items. Meiyu quickly became hot in Taiwan, which had just gone through divisive local elections and is rife with rumors of China's interference in social media. The bot now has more than 110,000 users on the Japanese messaging app Line, which covers about 90% of the mobile-messaging market in Taiwan.
Awesome, do it now. The criminal fraud Presidency needs corrected.
Remember when it was fun to be able to speculate on a topic because nobody present knew the right answer?
That detects people asserting logical fallacies and tells them that they don't know what they're talking about.
Ought to be real fun with the I Fucking Love Science crowd when they get told that "scientific consensus" is a euphemism for argumentum ad popolum.
Or with people in general when it says:
"Calling you a dishonest, good for nothing shitbag is just an insult. To be argumentum ad hominem he'd have to say that you being a dishonest, good for nothing shitbag is specifically the grounds on which your argument is wrong. Even asserting that facts in contention ought to be held in contention until independently verified because you're a dishonest shitbag is not argumentum ad hominem."
From the "free speech" advocates who go all fluttering concern when the idea of correcting false speech and alternative facts is broached.
Does it also auto-report you to the Police and remove your ability to ride on a train?
> rumors of China's interference in social media
JUST RUMOURS *beep* *beep* PLEASE REPORT TO THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH *beep* *beep*
Such a thing would kill Shanghai Bill, Kendall and yourself rather than attempt to educate you with facts that you ignore routinely. AI figures out who is educable quickly, Republican idiots are ignored. The system works.
The most-abused pseudo-scientific term ever.
All there is, is what you experience through your senses. Which is already heavily processed and biased by your senses and the bias machine we call our brains. Whose only purpose is to literally bias input based on past input for the purpose of detecting and matching patterns, so we can use them to predict the future. Because otherwise we would aimlessly drift.
Science is merely the act of writing it down and making sure there is a certain statistical significance that you can verify.
That is all there is. Sorry.
Only usefulness. No absolute truth(TM).
Anything you are merely being told, is only useful, as long as the source you got it from *itself* also has shown reliable usefulness (in that area).
Which, I'm, again, sorry, is simply not the case with *any* of the "news" sources. *Especially* those that claim to know the absolute true "facts" and that they are "unbiased". And *especially* especially unscientific "fact checkers".
Thanks, bu I'm gonna focus on tha actual reality around me, that actually affects me.
Not some gods, not some Facebook posts, not some news and not some " fact checkers".
Yup, and Trump can't catch your hero, Obama. Work harder, weak troll.
Now angry RTFM neck-beards will be out of jobs.
Table-ized A.I.
From another recent post: "Social credit offenses range from not paying individual taxes or fines to spreading false information..." [emphasis added]. That would make for very swift "justice" indeed. Make a wonky claim in a "private" chat group while you're on the bus, and get thrown off immediately. No soup for you.
What a crock of sh*t. (As a side note, why does sh*t come in crocks?)
Given how fundamentally flawed and agenda-driven "fact checkers" are, this is nothing more than a 1984 telescreen poly.
What happens when you send it a continuous stream of Trump's tweets and speeches?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Any chance this bot is sarcasm-impaired?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
These things can only do what they are trained to do.
I can see it now:
AI: False! Human babies are not human until you take them home from the hospital. {Source: dem lawmaker}
AI:False! You did get to keep your doctor, and your premium went down! {Source: who knows}
Etc. ...
If I share a link that Hitler was bad for Germany will it include alternative interpretations? Jews were worse? The technological advances were worth it? It lead to the peace in Europe now so it was good?
"China good. You say China bad. Reducing social credit. No train ride for you!"
and maintain it's all just biased opinion and faith,
please feel free to jump off the nearest cliff.
I caution you against this.
My unsubstantiated faith-based opinion (just as good or bad as anyone else's about anything)
is that gravity will accelerate you rapidly toward the surface below and that you will die from the sudden deceleration after that.
But what do I know?
Seriously though, it's getting to where I refuse to have an extended conversation about a serious topic with anyone who cannot demonstrate basic epistemic soundness in their thinking. It's just a waste of words and time.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
should sufficiently confuse the bot (Liar paradox).
All sorts of surprises await the fools that buy lie-detecting robots! https://i.pinimg.com/originals...
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
Freaking lovely.
We are already at the point where less than 1% of the population is capable of genuinely thinking for themselves.
Welcome to the beginning of the New Dark Age.
when they get told that "scientific consensus" is a euphemism for argumentum ad popolum.
It isn't. It is a euphemism for "argumentum ab auctoritate" i.e. appeal to authority. The point is not that lots of people believe it but that experts in the relevant field (who are presumed to know the truth) believe it.
I'm married to such a bot.
Any reason why this robot is a "she"? A robot would typically be referred to as "it". Is there a social reason why this robot is referred to as female? Is it supposed to inspire some gender familiar reaction to the inserted comments? Would the inserted "fact checks" have different credibility if it came from an "it" or "he"?
This is actually a very, very interesting application for AI.
I don't want it to judge. But I would love to have a Firefox plugin that scans texts and adds comments. So the next time someone posts "vaccines cause autism", there'll be a small symbol and you can click it to expand to a short summary of facts. Just the facts, e.g. "99% of scientific studies deny this claim, on the Internet the opinion is largely found on social media, 3 of its main proponents were sentenced in trials about the question, found to be lying". Something like that.
There are controversial topics and I wouldn't want the AI to decide what's true. But it could help greatly in doing background research and presenting a summary.
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
Spending a lot of time detecting and removing falsehood will only make those spreading lies work harder to conceal their tells. Then even intelligent readers will not be able to find the truth. This will have already happened to most of you, sorry guys, you are not an expert in everything.
We need to address the real problem. The media don't work for the public, because the public isn't paying them. Advertisers and political interests are. Yes, you actually need to buy a paper that can't have advertising and pay for it. Only then will it be an intelligence service that works for you and not somebody else. (Try not to buy one based on your politics or you still lose.)
Hopefully nobody loads that up onto /.