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Re: OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligence How to Speak

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Post by jedberg »

digi_owl wrote: post #56
minimaxir wrote: post #10

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…

So we have all this data, but still there do not seem to be a reasonable way to search comments within Reddit...

Cost. We could have implemented comment search 8 years ago. Actually, we did implement it. But it just cost way too much to maintain the index.

Re: OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligence How to Speak

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Post by gr3yh47 »

romaniv wrote: post #45
draugadrotten wrote: post #22

Back in 2007, mobile phones used a system called T9 from Nuance corp which was trained on a word corpus taken from IRC and similar chats. This caused all kinds of issues - the mobile phones would accept offensive words like "naziparking" but reject normal language like "world peace". Using reddit may lead to ... surprises. Source: http://spraktidningen.se/artiklar/2007/11/darfor-ar-din-mobi... Translated by Google: h…

Might have been an exclusively German language problem, or maybe they cleaned it up since that article was published. I have a phone with T9 and it works remarkably well. Heck, I would prefer it to Swype. (Of course, it's not useful on smartphones, because they no longer have real keys.)

t9 was AMAZING and i miss it every day. faster and more accurate than swype for sure, especially since inputs for t9 are deterministic.

very easy to text even from your pocket etc - something you cant do on a smartphone - notice texting accidents became more common with the widespread adaptation of smartphones ;)

Re: OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligence How to Speak

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Post by LeanderK »

i think one of the major advantages over microsoft approach with Tay is that you can't mess with it on purpose, as long as they choose their subreddits wisely. It will probably learn its fair bit of racial slurs and insults, but thats just how humanity is like.

Re: OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligence How to Speak

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Post by swalsh »

TY wrote: post #5

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…

How good is it? Can it talk to me, learn what I know, and more importantly learn what I DON'T know? Can it use that information to help me learn various things?

Online lectures are great, but a personalized tutor could change things. If I restate back my understanding of a subject, and it clearly tells me why I'm mistaken, that's useful.

Reddit does this, kind of, today... but it's not really from an informed position. It's mostly uninformed people arguing with equally uninformed people. There are gems occasionally, but it's rare. That's why /r/depthhub was created

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Post by TY »

dave_sullivan wrote: post #39
TY wrote: post #5

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…

I'm going to make a prediction: Soon after the first chatbot passes a Turing Test, there will be many more to follow, they will get better and better, and the methods will be so interlinked that there will be no way to defend it as proprietary software. The data too will be open source--the public reddit dataset already has tons of value in it. The question then is, "When everyone has access to free chatbots that can…

I agree that making chatbots passing the Turing Test will probably be something so common in the future that it will be a student project of medium complexity.

However, we are not there yet. If someone had this today, how valuable would this be to Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon?

As for the definition of what the Turing Test is, it's definitely a fuzzy subject. My own arbitrary definition is "ability to convince a human that he's talking to another human after a sustained (based on time or length of) conversation whereas human is aware that there's a possibility that his interlocutor maybe a machine".

So, it's more of convincing a judge in Loebner Prize competition than a random troll on Twitter.

Re: OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligence How to Speak

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Post by psb217 »

nateberkopec wrote: post #2

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.

The P100s have full support for half-precision (i.e. 16 bit) floating point ops. This can mean ~2x improvements in speed and memory usage in comparison to the Pascal TitanX, which is the top "consumer" card. This difference is significant for almost any machine learning workload, which is what a lot of these cards will be used for.

NVIDIA gimped half-precision on the consumer cards to drive datacenters, hedge funds, machine learning companies, etc. towards the "professional" cards (and their huge markup).

Re: OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligence How to Speak

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Post by livingparadox »

dave_sullivan wrote: post #39
TY wrote: post #5

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…

I'm going to make a prediction: Soon after the first chatbot passes a Turing Test, there will be many more to follow, they will get better and better, and the methods will be so interlinked that there will be no way to defend it as proprietary software. The data too will be open source--the public reddit dataset already has tons of value in it. The question then is, "When everyone has access to free chatbots that can…

We've already had a few chatbots pass a turing test. Just none that are particularly sophisticated. One in particular just acted "cheeky" to throw off the other person.

Re: OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligence How to Speak

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Post by TY »

ohstopitu wrote: post #35
TY wrote: post #5

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…

it'd be really useful for support (customer support). That and if I could, I'd open source most of it - because, AI by the looks of it, is / going to be the next big thing. Tools like this, are powered by data - data that very few companies have access to (Google, Facebook etc.). This puts every other startup / hacker etc at a disadvantage. So anything that can give a little leg up for open source would be wonderful.

Customer support, personal intelligence assistants, virtual "friends", game characters, toys (software and "real" ones) are all things that come to mind first.

Also, possibly medical applications? Eliza (the first known chatbot) was built to simulate a Rogerian psychologist and was quite convincing for its time (1960s)...

What else would you use it for?

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