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Post by triplewipeass »

yeldarb wrote: post #13
natch wrote: post #6

Fascinating. I wonder if our current discussion boards on the interwebs can survive the coming influx of content like this and the next generations of it that follow. There are a lot of SO questions posted by very weak non-native speakers of English and some of these are hard to distinguish from those. Kind of scary! What possible positive outcomes do you see for this kind of (admittedly inevitable) capability?

I am actually a bit worried that I’m already starting to see search engine traffic coming in... I hope that the good will outweigh the bad. I’d love to create an answer generator, for example. Once enough questions are generated I’m going to try creating a classifier to see if a neural net can differentiate between real questions and fake ones.

You could put up a robots.txt denying all search engines.

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Post by pjc50 »

natch wrote: post #6

Fascinating. I wonder if our current discussion boards on the interwebs can survive the coming influx of content like this and the next generations of it that follow. There are a lot of SO questions posted by very weak non-native speakers of English and some of these are hard to distinguish from those. Kind of scary! What possible positive outcomes do you see for this kind of (admittedly inevitable) capability?

AI will render political discussion between honest human strangers impossible on the open internet.

At some point this technology will extend into what's left of print, then talk radio, then TV. An endless supply of Markov punditry.

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Post by jdefr89 »

chrisco255 wrote: post #18
dugluak wrote: post #15

Every good invention can be terrifying if it falls in the hands of bad guys (Nuclear technology for example). It's true for AI also. I am sure bad guys must be training similar AI agents by only feeding fake news, conspiracy theories etc. and it's easy to build AI agents as there is so much Open Source material online about AI.

I'm trying to imagine a productive use case for this? Maybe in reverse for attempting to answer questions?

Think things like election meddling. Propagating truly fake news to cater to the emotions of what people simply want to be true. Humans are weak against Confirmation Bias, ten minutes on Facebook will show you for sure.

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Post by dmurray »

TheAsprngHacker wrote: post #23

Huh, in this question, there are a lot of words that get repeated five consecutive times: https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/13733 Is there a reason why? (I don't know anything about AI.)

Because it needs to determine if a string is a '????? '''''?????, of course.

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Post by jdefr89 »

chrisco256 wrote: post #9
chrisco255 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny, yet terrifying at the same time. How can I be sure that HN isn't just a really well trained Neural Net?

How can I be sure that i'm not just a really well trained Neural Net?

You are a very well trained neural net... The concept is based off of actual Neurons in our brain. Can't tell if you're serious or trolling though lol.

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Post by crooked-v »

TheAsprngHacker wrote: post #23

Huh, in this question, there are a lot of words that get repeated five consecutive times: https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/13733 Is there a reason why? (I don't know anything about AI.)

From what I understand, repeated output is a common failure state with neural net stuff in particular, though I don't know why.

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Post by dugluak »

chrisco255 wrote: post #18
dugluak wrote: post #15

Every good invention can be terrifying if it falls in the hands of bad guys (Nuclear technology for example). It's true for AI also. I am sure bad guys must be training similar AI agents by only feeding fake news, conspiracy theories etc. and it's easy to build AI agents as there is so much Open Source material online about AI.

I'm trying to imagine a productive use case for this? Maybe in reverse for attempting to answer questions?

use case is to spread misconceptions in the society (that's what bad guys want right?) in an automated way. especially during elections.

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Post by yeldarb »

TheAsprngHacker wrote: post #23

Huh, in this question, there are a lot of words that get repeated five consecutive times: https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/13733 Is there a reason why? (I don't know anything about AI.)

The way the language model is trained is by rewarding it for correctly predicting the next word in a sequence.

The output of the model is a predicted probability distribution of the next word and a “state” — the next iteration takes the state output of the previous interation and generates another word and state (and this process repeats many times).

Since there’s a probabilistic dimension, what may have happened in this case is that it happened to repeat once by chance and the model had learned that if something repeats 2x it’s likely that it will repeat a third, fourth, and fifth time.

Basically it’s just trying to game the loss function which rewarded it for predicting the next word in the sequence correctly.

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