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

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Post by StavrosK »

gr3yh47 wrote: post #63
romaniv wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ;)

Note that you're comparing a touchscreen to tactile keys in that statement too, though. I could text from my pocket without T9, but try doing that with a touchscreen WITH T9...

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

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Post by StavrosK »

LukeB_UK wrote: post #16
samfisher83 wrote: post #4

Didn't msft do the same thing with twitter and end up with racist bot? I am not sure how this will turn out.

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.

Actually, IIRC someone had discovered a debug command, "repeat" or something like that. So people would just tell it to repeat offensive sentences.

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

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Post by celticninja »

ppod wrote: post #90

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.

Primarily because they way it works, there are lots of high quality comments in smaller subreddits. It would probably be beneficial to filter out some of the default subreddits from the data sets to improve the quality of the data.

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

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Post by bduerst »

ppod wrote: post #90

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.

I would say Twitter is probably more civil, but the character limit leads to too many abbreviations.

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

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Post by mirhagk »

swalsh wrote: post #60
davidiach wrote: post #55

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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.

That's not true

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

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Post by jclos »

ParanoidSP wrote: post #41
jclos wrote: post #30

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That doesn't make any sense. Just because a bot can pass for a human doesn't make it capable of improving itself into a superintelligence. Evidence: 6+ billion humans who are capable of improving themselves but are not a superintelligence yet.

I understand your point of view, but humans are limited in terms of processing power/speed/memory though. An ai is not limited by human limits of thinking power. The gulf between the smartest human being ever and the dumbest human being ever is not really that wide. It's just a small blip in the long line of intelligence progression. There is no reason why this point should be the limiting point of AI intelligence. I…

But being able to hold a conversation (and thus passing the Turing test) does not make anyone or anything capable of "infinite" self-improvement. As a matter of fact, we don't know what does, and I doubt that it's just a matter of throwing more CPU cycles at it.

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

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Post by bduerst »

SnydenBitchy wrote: post #75
Cshelton wrote: post #12

As a frequent Redditor, this AI is going to be very witty. They should limit it to top comments only, and for training, you might as well assume 90% of top comments are sarcastic/tongue in cheek. Or let a user dial the sarcasm/wittiness/seriousness as they want it, kind of like TARS from 'Interstellar'.

“Witty” isn’t the first thing that comes to mind to describe reddit. I do look forward to hearing Siri telling me to get raped every time I summon it.

I think they are being sarcastic - or at least that's the way that I read it.

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

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Post by denzil_correa »

minimaxir wrote: post #42
arctangent wrote: post #26

One Reddit user has already implemented a bot which does something similar: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/

SubredditSimulator was made by a Reddit Admin as a method of creating test data. It uses Markov chains for simplicity, which is not that exciting.

I have always wondered if one could make a better Subreddit Simulator with Deep Learning.

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

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Post by ClassyJacket »

chatmasta wrote: post #71
jedberg wrote: post #61

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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.

Why do you not allow google to index discussion threads? Sometimes I can remember the comments on an article, but not the article itself. Unfortunately I can't search google using comment text, because Reddit doesn't allow google to index its comments.

But it does, it works fine.

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

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Post by ClassyJacket »

chatmasta wrote: post #71
jedberg wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Why do you not allow google to index discussion threads? Sometimes I can remember the comments on an article, but not the article itself. Unfortunately I can't search google using comment text, because Reddit doesn't allow google to index its comments.

But it does, it works fine.
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