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A virtual assistant that has the personality of a smug know-it-all, know-nothing 20 year-old with little motivation to do anything but regurgitate surface knowledge and sarcasm in an attempt to look intelligent without expressing genuine interest in helping anyone.
How one would use such technology? Let me rephrase - how would YOU use this technology if you had it? Imagine you have a bot that convincingly passes the Turing test - what would you do with it? Build a chatbot business? B2C or B2B? Sell it to one of the big companies and if yes then how much do you think it would go for? Give it to OpenAI? Open source it? If you answer yes to any of this questions, then why? Edit: l…
Rapidly (and with its help) get it to a point where it can self-improve beyond human intelligence.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft's bot (Tay) learned as people talked with it. People took advantage of that and basically attacked it with racist things which meant it ended up learning to be a racist.
So we're rediscovering parenting via AI!
One problem for data geeks to solve: Reddit data fits nicely into a graph structure and not so nicely in table form. It would be fantastic if someone put the Reddit data set into a graphdb and made it open.
[1]https://wisdomofreddit.com and https://github.com/qxf2/wisdomofreddit
[2]For now, my search engine currently just uses Whoosh's (out of the box) BM25F.
How one would use such technology? Let me rephrase - how would YOU use this technology if you had it? Imagine you have a bot that convincingly passes the Turing test - what would you do with it? Build a chatbot business? B2C or B2B? Sell it to one of the big companies and if yes then how much do you think it would go for? Give it to OpenAI? Open source it? If you answer yes to any of this questions, then why? Edit: l…
The DGX-1 is available for a cool $129k: http://www.nvidia.com/object/deep-learning-system.html Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's basically a couple hundred NVIDIA 10-series cards strapped together with a full custom NVIDIA software stack.
Sure, there's been improvements to the computational performance.
But the big deal (to me at least) is the unified memory model between the GPUs and the Xeon host processors. This makes a lot of things easier to code for on a single system, and it makes multi-system applications easier to scale. This is because you're streaming data in over the network (10G Ethernet) and then the GPUs can operate on it without an extra copy step. The copy step also implies more management and shuffling around of the data you're operating on.
Since it was not mentioned in the post, here's a direct link to the Reddit comment corpus likely being used: http://files.pushshift.io/reddit/comments/ The full table (up to end of 2015) is available on BigQuery, with separate tables for each month thereafter: https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/fh-bigquery:reddit_p... (there is a similar table for comments) And here's a year-old post I wrote on how to use that R…
How one would use such technology? Let me rephrase - how would YOU use this technology if you had it? Imagine you have a bot that convincingly passes the Turing test - what would you do with it? Build a chatbot business? B2C or B2B? Sell it to one of the big companies and if yes then how much do you think it would go for? Give it to OpenAI? Open source it? If you answer yes to any of this questions, then why? Edit: l…
The question then is, "When everyone has access to free chatbots that can pass the turing test, what will they be used for?" The answer is "tons of stuff", and lots of people will try it at once. I think many applications will be niche.
Also, people will argue about what constitutes a Turing Test. For instance: https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/784162089397092352
If they're taking the whole of reddit it could start to identify enough context to know when to be smart, sarcastic or simply helpful.
With some of the subs there are long discussions that stay mainly civilised. Same for the support subs it could learn the context and how of sympathy and empathy. Things that end up on front page, filled with snap sarcasm, will be a tiny fraction.
I think it's going to be very interesting see what comes out.