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

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

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Hacker News would probably a much better source in this sense, even though there are far fewer comment here.

Oh god, you'll have an AI that disagrees just for the pure joy of disagreeing.

No you wouldn't. /s

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

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So, he's building a literal Reddit Hivemind?

In seriousness, between all of the garbage there is a ton of knowledge and intelligent conversation uploaded to Reddit every day. And, it's all hierarchically organized and scored by domain semi-experts. It really would be wonderful if someone could mine that knowledge IBM Watson style. For example, I'd love to ask the /r/BuildAPC collective AI for PC building advice.

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

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"Oh my God, they'll turn it on and it'll start spewing memes and jokes and ad hominem and false equivalences and propaganda and garbage!" was my first reaction to this headline. My second reaction was, "at least they're not using 4chan."

That's exactly what 4chan did with Microsoft's Tay bot on Twitter.

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

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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 positio…

If a bot could talk to me, and read Wikipedia, and figure out how to get me from the place I am in understanding a topic to where the Wikipedia explanation is, that would be crazy amazing. I don't even know if this would be particularly intractable at this point... the figuring out where I am currently at in understanding would probably be the difficult part.

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

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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…

Build a household AI, like JARVIS from Iron Man. Edit: Corrected.

Yup, this is my answer. I'm slowly building an in-house software suite .. because i can, i guess, and a big thing i'm wanting is to tie it all together with a human friendly administrative program.

The main thing stopping me is NLP. Ideally, i want this offline only as i am unsure how much of my life i want to leave my home network.

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

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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…

Side note, "naziparking" is a word people say....?!?

Welcome to IRC.

Anyways, i could see someone use that term in frustration about a car having been parked across two spaces.

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

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Reddit and Hacker News comments are surprisingly good data. They cover a wide array of topics and writing styles, generally written better than Facebook comments or Twitter, easier to process than Common Crawl or ukWac, and less rigid than newspaper writing.

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

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Reddit gets a lot of stick, but it's a bastion of civility and intelligence compared to the comments on youtube videos or even mainstream newspaper comments. I don't think there is any forum of comparable size that has a higher quality discussion. Reddit's problems are just humans' problems.
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