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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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Post by wodenokoto »

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…

We used T9's since at least the beginning of the Millennium. It was one of the major selling points of Nokia phones back when snake was the other one.

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

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Post by wodenokoto »

rm_-rf_slash wrote: post #85
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."

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

No, it isn't. They found a repeat command and had it re-tweet things at will.

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

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Post by shogun21 »

digi_owl wrote: post #88
neom wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's weird. A grammar nazi is a stickler for grammar. You'd think naziparking would be a stickler for proper parking.

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Post by Florin_Andrei »

digi_owl wrote: post #88
neom wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

So maybe the "naziparkers" are those who go around keying the cars that are parked wrong.

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

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Post by Florin_Andrei »

corysama wrote: post #84

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.

> it's all hierarchically organized and scored by domain semi-experts

Everything on Reddit is on a bell curve, with a fat mediocre middle and trailing awesome and superbad ends.

And that includes the quality of the scoring process.

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

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Post by kuschku »

minimaxir wrote: post #164
natch wrote: post #161

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Which one is which? Thanks in advance if you know, because i'd rather not download a huge torrent just to find out I should have been using that bandwidth to download a different one.

Never mind, misread, the comment data is indeed what I linked to. However , uncompressed, it hits over 1+TB, if the BigQuery sizes are indication.

> However, uncompressed, it hits over 1+TB, if the BigQuery sizes are indication.

Even then, that’s easily doable on a consumer system.

I’ll download it in the night between friday and saturday, after I install my new HDD, and just run queries over it for fun. (far slower, but also far cheaper than BigQuery. Even at German electricity prices).

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Post by Balgair »

dragonwriter wrote: post #153
Balgair wrote: post #148

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Woah! I thought they pretty much already have passed it? Remember Ashley Madison? You had ~12 million heterosexual men (that were cheaters, 6 million 'active' users) trying to talk to ~12k heterosexual women (also cheaters, 10k 'active' accounts). It ends up being about a 1:13,000 ratio. Not only that but MANY of these men had paid actual real money to the site in order to do so, and then continued to do so. The only…

There's no reason 6 million non-randomly selected men would be likely to have an IQ distribution similar to the general population. You can't make up for non-random selection with a larger sample size.

Ok fine, but then how far off of the mean should they then be? They aren't all super smart nor are mentally deficient as they have to be able to function in society to make money enough to pay for the service. At most this is what, an IQ mean of 75-125. So that then means at the low end, TT chat-bots can fool human males of IQs of 75. That's pretty darn good and that was 4+ years ago.

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

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Post by macns »

gravypod wrote: post #109
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'd parse all of the data from political discussion sites (like geopolitical commentary) and attempt to find a correlation between that, news articles, public speeches, and stock data to see if I can predict anything about geopolitical stability. If I can say predict with a 30-40% accuracy things like riots in 3rd world nations based on collective analysis of data provided from thousands of sources (just by looking a…

Somehow this reminded me of "psychohistory" in Isaac Asimov's Foundation:

Science fiction author and scientist/science writer Isaac Asimov popularized the term in his famous Foundation series of novels, though in his works the term psychohistory is used fictionally for a mathematical discipline that can be used to predict the general course of future history.

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