The Case of the not so Intelligent Artificial Intelligence

I have been playing around with Artificial Intelligence apps on the computer. I have trying to use it to simplify some descriptions and to help in writing. 

The problem is that it sucks. It sucks hard. I have been reading about how it will replace writers but there is no way that it could ever work. You have to give so much information for to generate something and then it seems to just be regurgitating what you put in originally.

I tried to get it to write one of my letters to Holmes from Inspector Lestrade. When I used a lot of detail it actually refused to do it since it said it would not make fun of anyone's sexuality or mock anyone. What's the fun in that. 

Anyway this is what it came up with:

 My dear Mr. Holmes,

I trust this letter finds you well, and perhaps even well-occupied with one of your many pressing cases. It is with some hesitancy that I write to you on a matter that, while it may not require your immediate attention, is nonetheless of some interest.

You may recall the Lady Chatterley case, which had the good fortune of crossing your path some years ago. It seems that, despite the best efforts of yourself and the Yard, this particular affair has not been entirely laid to rest.

Rumors, whispers, and insinuations have been floating about of late, suggesting that the late Lady Chatterley's gardener, one Oliver Mellors, may have been more deeply involved in her demise than was previously thought. While I do not wish to imply any wrongdoing on the part of the deceased, I must confess that such talk has made me rather uneasy.

I know that you are always one to keep your ear to the ground when it comes to such matters, and I would be most grateful if you could spare a moment to look into this for me. I understand that your time is valuable, but I assure you that any information you could provide would be of great use to the Yard.

I remain, as always, your humble servant.

Yours sincerely,

Inspector Lestrade

"Facebook shuts off AI experiment after two robots begin speaking in their OWN language"

Via Drudge:  The “chatbots” Alice and Bob modified English to make it easier for them to communicate — creating sentences that were gibberish to watching scientists.

“We do not know what these bots are saying. Once you have a bot that has the ability to do something physically, particularly military bots, this could be lethal.

“If one says, ‘Why not do this,’ and the other says ‘Yes’ and it’s a military bot, you have a serious situation.

“This is the first recorded communication but there will have been many more unrecorded.

“Smart devices right now have the ability to communicate and although we think we can monitor them, we have no way of knowing.

“Stephen Hawking and I have been warning against the dangers of deferring to Artificial Intelligence.”

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Artificial Intelligence judged too artificial

"The first international beauty contest judged by “machines” was supposed to use objective factors such as facial symmetry and wrinkles to identify the most attractive contestants. After Beauty.AI launched this year, roughly 6,000 people from more than 100 countries submitted photos in the hopes that artificial intelligence, supported by complex algorithms, would determine that their faces most closely resembled “human beauty”."

But when the results came in, the creators were dismayed to see that there was a glaring factor linking the winners: the robots did not like people with dark skin.

Out of 44 winners, nearly all were white, a handful were Asian, and only one had dark skin. That’s despite the fact that, although the majority of contestants were white, many people of color submitted photos, including large groups from India and Africa.

The ensuing controversy has sparked renewed debates about the ways in which algorithms can perpetuate biases, yielding unintended and often offensive results.

"A.I. Is Progressing So Fast We Need a Basic Guaranteed Income"

This video clip reminds me of a movie, I believe it may have been The Time Machine (1960), or a Twilight Zone episode. Where the protagonist arrives a time when people, because they had no more care in the world ie no more wars and famine, decided to just relax and play all day. They did not read nor strive. The protagonist found the outcome extremely disturbing and disappointing, in a speech.

Whatever makes these guys believe in a different outcome?

"Would a real A.I. purposefully fail the Turing Test as to not expose it self in fear it might be destroyed?"

Top voted Reddit answers...

Just because it can pass itself off as human doesn't mean it's all-knowing, smart or machavelian or even that it has a desire to continue to exist.
Maybe it's depressed as fuck and will do anything to have itself switched off, like the screaming virtual monkey consciousness alluded to in the movie Transcendence.


No. An intelligence written from scratch would not have the same motivations we do.
A few billion years of evolution has selected for biological organisms with a survival motivation. That is why we would lie in order to avoid destruction.
An artificial intelligence will probably be motivated only by the metrics used to describe its intelligence. In modern neural nets, this is the objective function used in the backpropogation algorithm.


If the goal is to make self aware AI, I don't think it would be smart enough at first to deceive a human. They would have to test it after allowing it to "hang out" with people. But by that time wouldn't its self awareness already have given away what the thing is capable of thinking like a human and therefore maybe gain a survival instinct? If we make self aware machines one day it will be a pretty dangerous situation IMO.

 

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