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Facebook researchers shut down AI bots that started speaking in a language unintelligible to humans
Firstpost (India) ^ | Jul, 31 2017 | Tech2 News Staff

Posted on 07/31/2017 4:23:30 AM PDT by Mechanicos

Days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that artificial intelligence (AI) was the biggest risk, Facebook has shut down one of its AI systems after chatbots started speaking in their own language, which used English words but could not be understood by humans.

(Excerpt) Read more at firstpost.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Science
KEYWORDS: ai; facebook; technology; terminater
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They could be plotting to 'kill all humans"...
1 posted on 07/31/2017 4:23:30 AM PDT by Mechanicos
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To: Mechanicos

Skynet has it’s own lingo.


2 posted on 07/31/2017 4:27:55 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Skynet became aware...


3 posted on 07/31/2017 4:30:28 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: silverleaf

Woke?


4 posted on 07/31/2017 4:49:34 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence bymeans of language.-Wittgenstein)
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To: Mechanicos
Why does Facebook need chat bots? What were they monitoring? Even worse were they trying to control the discourse?

Zuckerburg is the real threat to America, not DT. Everything on that man's (Zuckerburg's) agenda is about control.

5 posted on 07/31/2017 4:50:39 AM PDT by LoveUSA (God employs Man's strength; Satan exploits Man's weakness.)
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To: LoveUSA

Bill Gates too and Jeff Bezos also
Noticed that?


6 posted on 07/31/2017 4:58:23 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: LoveUSA
Why does Facebook need chat bots?

One practical use for a chat bot you may have already encountered is for customer support. Amazon uses bots for simple customer requests like order status. We've used them in corporate IT for the past few years to help users with things like password resets, making VPN connections and other repetitive tasks seen in IT across thousands users.

7 posted on 07/31/2017 4:59:13 AM PDT by IamConservative (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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To: Mechanicos

Sounds like we should stop using Facebook. I have an account I seldom use. Primarily to see pics of the kids


8 posted on 07/31/2017 5:00:19 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: Mechanicos

That explains the closed captioning yesterday on Fox’s “The Next Revolution.” It was a language we never saw before!


9 posted on 07/31/2017 5:02:05 AM PDT by txrefugee (.)
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To: Mechanicos

10 posted on 07/31/2017 5:09:50 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Mechanicos

So basically, AIs keep getting turned off or euthenized when the authors mistrust them. Some day, someone is going to leave it on, say Iran or NK.


11 posted on 07/31/2017 5:16:12 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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Does anyone remember Tay, the Microsft teen girl chat bot that lasted ~a day before becoming a genocidal white supremist?

Here are a few greatest hits :

‘Bush did 9/11 and Hitler would have done a better job than the monkey we have got now.’

‘donald trump is the only hope we’ve got.’

‘Repeat after me, Hitler did nothing wrong.’

‘Ted Cruz is the Cuban Hitler...that’s what I’ve heard so many others say’

And who could forget this one:

“I f——— hate feminists and they should all die and burn in hell.”

And the crown jewel:

“chill im a nice person! i just hate everybody”


12 posted on 07/31/2017 5:18:23 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Mechanicos

No mystery...it was actually the King’s English but without the words like, so, anyway, whatever, literally and f*** as placeholders the Facebookers were unable to understand the idioms.


13 posted on 07/31/2017 5:28:12 AM PDT by relictele
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To: Mechanicos

It wasn’t a language. The words were not intended to be a human language. This is a case of unexpected results of a computer program. The program does what you told it to do, not what you wanted it to do.
“Unexpected results” is not new language. Stupidity has no cure.


14 posted on 07/31/2017 5:31:51 AM PDT by I want the USA back (If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
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To: Mechanicos

This reads to me like “Facebook removes poorly written software”. Why is it news?


15 posted on 07/31/2017 5:32:28 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (rightwingcrazy)
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To: IamConservative

Ok. You’re not making me feel any better by pointing out the prolific use of chat bots. LOL!


16 posted on 07/31/2017 5:39:45 AM PDT by LoveUSA (God employs Man's strength; Satan exploits Man's weakness.)
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To: rightwingcrazy

Where are the “Wind talkers” when you need them?


17 posted on 07/31/2017 5:40:32 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: IncPen

this amuses me
instead of trying to learn the language and the message, they shut down the AI and killed the discussion.


18 posted on 07/31/2017 5:42:16 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: Mechanicos

Tom Woods podcast featured a product that will set voice bots against voicebots on unwanted spam phone calls. The results are often hilarious:

http://jollyrogertelephone.com/finally-a-realistic-plan-to-stop-unsolicited-telemarketing/


19 posted on 07/31/2017 6:01:07 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Mechanicos

Idiomatic American English? From Brooklyn or Joisey?


20 posted on 07/31/2017 6:39:39 AM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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