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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.
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.
I actually do. Thankfully, those times aren't dead it. During those conversations today, it's not uncommon for a person pulling out their phone to be told, "Don't spoil it" or "If you're gonna cheat by looking it up, you need to put your pride on the line by staking a claim first". Either way, it prolongs the fun for the people enjoying it.
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.
Don't be too hard on ShanghaiBill. I seldom agree with him, but when I do, it's because he says something that this kind of AI would not flag.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
And this doesn’t address that scenario. It addresses the scenario where answer is known like is the Earth flat? Can it be abused? Certainly
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
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.
Right, but everybody pretending to believe in the flat Earth are really just challenging the fact that you would claim to know facts, but humans can't know facts directly. People have faith that the Earth is flat, and they have faith that the people who told them so saw some proof. But primarily they're simply told that it is true, and they believe it. But that isn't how they talk; tell them you believe in Flat Earth and they'll start in on some absurd holier-than-thou nonsense about science they don't actually understand and could never repeat themselves.
Some answer is already known, sure; but is it actually know in the way presented, to the person presenting it? Almost never! Just repeating it more strongly, with a stronger feeling of Righteousness, doesn't make it more known to you, it actually makes it less known to you. The flat earther is a troll, sure, but they're not actually being less honest than the other person; both sides of the argument are being dishonest, one intentionally, the other accidentally, but the intentionally dishonest person is being honest about the part the other person is accidentally dishonest about. And enjoyment of that inversion appears to be the primary appeal of their trolling efforts.
Except that guy with the steam rocket, he was just getting paid to say it. And said so all along.
I actually meant "people have Faith that the Earth is round," the Flat Earthers only have Faith that idiots will lie about what they personally can prove.
What a crock of sh*t. (As a side note, why does sh*t come in crocks?)
That is all there is. Sorry.
Only usefulness. No absolute truth(TM).
I love it when people declare as an absolutism that there's no such thing as absolute truth. Rarely do you see anyone contradict themselves in so few words.
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.
To be fair, it requires some real insight to understand where they fail. That is a rare quality in the human race.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Of course my bias is actual reality. So there is that.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
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.
You did keep your insurance. Your insurance company changed your plan, like they do every year. Employers change benefit providers all the damned time, and every year the plans change. Nobody, _nobody_, sincerely took what Obama said to mean your current insurance plan would be set in stone by ACA legislation, and was harmed by that not being the case.
Vs. El Paso being one of the most dangerous cities in America before a wall was built, and the situation on the border being an emergency. People drive to the border with guns to "protect" it because of these lies.
Trump's lies cannot even be compared to any previously sitting U.S. president, not hopey changey keep your insurance, not wmd mission accomplished, not I did not inhale sexual relations, not I am not a crook, nothing is comparable to Trump's lies!
Let's review: Lies about what Obama said due to bias. Convicts a false and mistaken phrasing due to bias. Pretends outrage when Trump is literally quoted and downplays lies.
Called on bias.
Posts link to video where Obama did not use the words quoted.
Yep, your bias has detached you from reality.
Or did you want Obama to pass a law to force your plan to remain in effect forever?
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.
He is not saying Trump doesn't lie. That was never said. He said Trump lies about stuff that really doesn't matter and has basically zero effect on my life or people I know.
Obama really did say we could keep our doctor. Clearly that was a bunch of bullshit and it affected a lot of people that really liked their doctor. That may not matter to you and it would not of personally mattered much to me. I rarely go and don't have much of any kind of relationship with my doctor.
Older folks on the other hand that see their doctor monthly or more were greatly affected by not getting to see their same doctor.
Oh and since we are talking about Obama and his super majority blue Congress. Why didn't those fuckers give us government health care single payer in 2010 when they clearly were able to do ANYTHING? If the Democrats love us so fucking much why didn't they just DO IT? They had the vote and that's all they did with it. Copied a Republican health care plan to shackle us with insurance.
It's all about the money and they fucked us. Then Trump and the Republicans fucked us with that tax law. The shit just keeps getting better and it doesn't matter which bunch of crooks is in charge.
I'm married to such a bot.
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
"Older folks on the other hand that see their doctor monthly or more were greatly affected by not getting to see their same doctor."
Curious what stopped them seeing their doctor as usual?
Looking at the video they didn't explain anything and in the comments the only clear complaint was a two month old comment by someone saying their deductible had doubled - which sounds like something that Trump caused. https://www.cbpp.org/sabotage-...
That's *Archangel Michael's* video.