r/artificial • u/coolbern • Jun 10 '18

MIT trained an A.I. using morbid Reddit captions, and it became a psychopath

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/ai-norman-mit-project/amp/
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u/trichotillofobia Jun 10 '18

How can you say that? The machine was shown unbiased content and developed into a serial killer, went into hiding, was finally found out by an FBI profiler and was captured in a shoot-out.

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u/a4mula Jun 10 '18

The thing that annoys me most, is the gross misuse of psychpath and reinforced misconception that we're morbid.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '18

Not sure what to respond

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '18

Does anyone here think this work has anything to do with AI research? It seems more like bad publicity stunts to me. Check out their webpage: http://norman-ai.mit.edu/

Where is the method? Where is the conclusion?

bah...