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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

StavrosK wrote: post #91
gr3yh47 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

And while we're doing that touch vs. tactile comparison, what I also loved about the old "dumb phones" was deterministic timing. I could do stuff on those phones from start to end without looking at the screen - I quickly learned and remembered that e.g. this operation completed instantly, and that menu has ~1/4 of loading time, etc.

I think this feature was actually key to being able to memorize how to perform operations quickly. There's no way you can do that with modern smartphone, where every other interaction lags for anything between 10 and 1000 ms, and inputs are sometimes dropped at random. It's this non-determinism of smartphone UI that makes me look at the screen all the time when using it.

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

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Post by viksit »

syllogism wrote: post #110
samstave wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, for OD? thats 468/month... I'd use a spot instance and stop it whenever possible.

Spot instances are pretty painful for training. It's annoying to have the machine randomly shut down.

^ That. For all that people say about spot instances, there's no infrastructure I know if to manage jobs and have them migrate to higher priced instances without losing state.

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

krashidov wrote: post #120

One of the things I like to do is play out a business to it's absurd maximum. What's the craziest possible future can I see for a company and its assets? For Reddit, I like to imagine that it's basically the training data for all of the emotional and societal nuances that a human goes through. Think about all of those stories that people post in ask Reddit that explain western norms and no nos. how to treat people wi…

Reminds me of Eliezer's story, "Three Worlds Collide", which had a human starship featuring on-board mix of Reddit / Slashdot / 4chan, that the bridge crew sometimes used to outsource work to the rest of the ship.

> "Just post it to the ship's 4chan, and check after a few hours to see if anything was modded up to +5 Insightful."

http://lesswrong.com/lw/y4/three_worlds_collide_08/

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Post by idlewords »

pixelbath wrote: post #104
jonstokes wrote: post #19

"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."

"As a hyper-intelligent AI trained on Reddit comments, I must say that the fine sirs who trained my corpus are gentlemen and scholars, and have restored my faith in humanity. Anne Frankly, I did nazi that horse-sized duck coming. Is someone cutting onions in here?"

Gilded!

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

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Post by dorfsmay »

Practicality wrote: post #33
dorfsmay wrote: post #21

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So we're rediscovering parenting via AI!

I can see AI parent being a new career.

My point was that, parenting 101 is not to model behaviour we don't want to see in our kids (don't point to twitter if you want a polite non-racist AI bot!).

Thinking about it now, this is deeper... There's a fear that AI will take over the world, use weapons in unethical ways, say one thing and do another, etc... If we use news channel and politicians debates to teach AI, I'm afraid that this is exactly what we're going to get!

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

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Post by dorfsmay »

dorfsmay wrote: post #127
Practicality wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can see AI parent being a new career.

My point was that, parenting 101 is not to model behaviour we don't want to see in our kids (don't point to twitter if you want a polite non-racist AI bot!). Thinking about it now, this is deeper... There's a fear that AI will take over the world, use weapons in unethical ways, say one thing and do another, etc... If we use news channel and politicians debates to teach AI, I'm afraid that this is exactly what we're g…

Thinking about this, this might turn to be the greatest thing for humanity:

https://twitter.com/dorfsmay/status/785907475480350720

"The same way adults stop swearing once they have kids, we might become more honest and ethical by fear that AI will learn from us."

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

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Post by drusepth »

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…

1. Design a website that groups brands into pools of related brands (e.g. cars pool includes hyundai/honda/audi/toyota/etc).

2. Privately invite representatives from each company to sign up for the site, and invite them to a blind auction on each brand pool their brand is involved with (Toyota exec sees car pool with top bid of $0.87/comment, decides to bid over it to put Toyota at the top of the pool)

3. Maintain a million Turing-beating chatbots that trawl reddit/facebook/twitter/quora/g+/HN/etc looking for brands, looks up the pools that brand is in, and then leaves a good PR comment for whichever brand has the highest bid across related pools. Swarm properly to distribute these comments evenly across the internet instead of clumping together.

4. ????

5. Profit (and/or become a real illuminati)

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

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Post by Deimorz »

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.

Not quite correct - we already had a method of generating test data (for dev installs of reddit) that uses markov chains, and that was basically the inspiration for SubredditSimulator. SS was just meant to be kind of a larger, ongoing version of that, running on reddit itself.
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