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I would really like a bot that could summarize topics for me then drill down into specifics based on questions I had. Even if it was all just from the Wikipedia page. This would be so nice to triage information while driving.
From the very first sample conversation they released: - Human: Hi! - Meena: Hey there! What's up? - Human: Same old, Monday blues...what are you up to? - Meena: I'm procrastinating on a paper I'm supposed to be writing. - Human: are you thinking of pulling an all nighter? - Meena: Possibly. What's your paper on? The bot has already mistaken facts about its own crafted persona and the human in less than 2 meaningful…
these nlp models are getting better and better but what we need ofc is for some model of the world to be constructed during the speech. If I tell you that yesterday I accidentally knocked a glass of water off the table and it fell on to soft carpet you could guess that it survived the fall without shattering. What we need is a chatbot that as you talk to it can update a 3d game/physics engine model from your words so…
It reminds me of something I do in my current occupation, with a robot. It makes predictions about how a certain motor movement will result in a change in position, then measures progress in the real world. Should the prediction and reality diverge significantly (more than a particular amount), it stops and calls a human to look into what happened. I can imagine AI techniques using this kind of thing to guess what will happen next in a series of events, with the result's divergance from the guess weighting the learning rather than a steadily decreasing weight. Perhaps this is already a thing though, I'm no AI researcher
I would really like a bot that could summarize topics for me then drill down into specifics based on questions I had. Even if it was all just from the Wikipedia page. This would be so nice to triage information while driving.
i've thought of this many times. "Wikibot, tell me more about bridges of the 19th century." "Stop. Tell me more the Ponte delle Catene, Bagni di Lucca bridge"
>Also, tackling safety and bias in the models is a key focus area for us, and given the challenges related to this, we are not currently releasing an external research demo. Read: We don't want the internet to turn our program into Tay 2.0 because we are super duper serious. I get why these companies do this. But I can't help but feel like attempting to eliminate "bias" and tackle "safety" are counter productive to t…
Without an external research demo this is all just hype. It is pretty easy for your bot team to come up with and release conversation where your bot does really well. Having it work in the real world outside the research lab is the big issue.
>Also, tackling safety and bias in the models is a key focus area for us, and given the challenges related to this, we are not currently releasing an external research demo. Read: We don't want the internet to turn our program into Tay 2.0 because we are super duper serious. I get why these companies do this. But I can't help but feel like attempting to eliminate "bias" and tackle "safety" are counter productive to t…
But it seems that’s not your most salient concern here, considering the scarequotes around „bias“, and the reversion of objective nd subjective you introduce.
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Maybe not you, but explicitly encouraging others to take harmful steps is a potential outcome. For example, there's a clear safety issue with a conversational bot that tells you to kill yourself if you talk to it about feeling suicidal or depressed. What if you talk to it about immigration and by picking commonly upvoted statements on certain online communities it starts to encourage violence? There are clear ways to…
That’s a decent argument but then should we go to Hollywood and sanitize their violence in their movies (even those wanting to teach us about the evil of violence) for fear they might incite the wrong people who see such as calls to violence? What I mean is that that possibility exists in other media yet we don’t feel ambiguous about it.
What we're talking about here isn't someone stopping others from releasing a bot but stopping themselves until they're happy with the potential risks.
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First of all, Hollywood does occasionally sanitize films and TV shows. For example, the suicide scene was removed from "13 Reasons Why" after concerns from mental health experts that it might inspire copycats [1]. But even ignoring that, I think most people have a good understanding of what a movie is and that fictional characters are not real. Movies have been around for a long time, most people have been watching t…
So you’re saying people can tell fiction from reality in film (even if film re-enacts actual events), but can’t use that same construct to evaluate a “bot”? Maybe... but it seems like a bit of a stretch.
We're just not great at keeping what we know and how we feel in line.
>Also, tackling safety and bias in the models is a key focus area for us, and given the challenges related to this, we are not currently releasing an external research demo. Read: We don't want the internet to turn our program into Tay 2.0 because we are super duper serious. I get why these companies do this. But I can't help but feel like attempting to eliminate "bias" and tackle "safety" are counter productive to t…
When I need a laugh, I just read about Tay running amok:
https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...
From the very first sample conversation they released: - Human: Hi! - Meena: Hey there! What's up? - Human: Same old, Monday blues...what are you up to? - Meena: I'm procrastinating on a paper I'm supposed to be writing. - Human: are you thinking of pulling an all nighter? - Meena: Possibly. What's your paper on? The bot has already mistaken facts about its own crafted persona and the human in less than 2 meaningful…
these nlp models are getting better and better but what we need ofc is for some model of the world to be constructed during the speech. If I tell you that yesterday I accidentally knocked a glass of water off the table and it fell on to soft carpet you could guess that it survived the fall without shattering. What we need is a chatbot that as you talk to it can update a 3d game/physics engine model from your words so…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
these nlp models are getting better and better but what we need ofc is for some model of the world to be constructed during the speech. If I tell you that yesterday I accidentally knocked a glass of water off the table and it fell on to soft carpet you could guess that it survived the fall without shattering. What we need is a chatbot that as you talk to it can update a 3d game/physics engine model from your words so…
This might sound unrealistically complicated, and the approach suggested here certainly is, but the idea of simulating a world is a very important concept in our current models of human intelligence, with very small children spending a lot of their time learning basic concepts of cause and effect, properties of objects, materials and physics and so on. It reminds me of something I do in my current occupation, with a…