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Post by GeneralMaximus »

hnick wrote: post #192
hesarenu wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Milk is not main ingredient in South Indian dishes. Most might be vegan.

They use a fair bit of ghee don't they? I went from memory but Wikipedia seems to agree with that. "Ghee is widely used in South Indian cuisine for tempering curries, in preparation of rice dishes and sweets. South Indians have a habit of adding ghee to their rice before eating it with pickles and curries. South Indians are one of the biggest consumers of ghee."

While everything tastes better with ghee, you can cook a lot of Indian food using plant-based oils. I use sunflower oil for a lot of dishes, but you can also use vegetable oil, olive oil, or mustard oil.

With a bit of effort, you can eliminate animal products from most vegetarian Indian food. It will taste different, but not too much.

Source: I'm Indian.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by elorant »

ebg13 wrote: post #168
pesenti wrote: post #71

Blog post: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/state-of-the-art-open-source-ch... Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13637.pdf Open Source: https://parl.ai/projects/recipes/ Ask us anything, the Facebook team behind it is happy to answer questions here.

> Ask us anything, the Facebook team behind it is happy to answer questions here. Why do you think that Facebook paid for this research?

This could be rolled out as a service for companies to integrate into their pages to provide support to their users.

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Post by [deleted] »

hadtodoit wrote: post #195
ebg13 wrote: post #168

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> Ask us anything, the Facebook team behind it is happy to answer questions here. Why do you think that Facebook paid for this research?

It's not obvious? Facebook has enough of your conversations to fingerprint your writing style. Now they can de-anonimize your reddit account and serve you even more personalized ads.

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Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by hackerman123469 »

sterlind wrote: post #35
M2Ys4U wrote: post #3

> Numerous issues arose during longer conversations. Blender would sometimes respond with offensive language, and at other times it would make up facts altogether. I mean, to be fair, I've had many conversations like that...

That's what happened with Microsoft's Tay. Is it possible to learn sentiment analysis from Reddit? If they had access to modmail they could determine what's offensive to individual subreddits or groups, but I'm not sure if there's a way to gauge fiery reactions without that. Maybe you could bootstrap it with an existing sentiment analysis tool, but that could easily lead to Garbage In Garbage Out.

There is something similar to Tay on Facebook/Instagram but it's not as "offensive" so the problem with Tay must have been in the dataset or something. It's basically a bot attempting to be a social media influencer.

See: https://www.facebook.com/brit.o.tara/

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by hutzlibu »

hadtodoit wrote: post #195
ebg13 wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Ask us anything, the Facebook team behind it is happy to answer questions here. Why do you think that Facebook paid for this research?

It's not obvious? Facebook has enough of your conversations to fingerprint your writing style. Now they can de-anonimize your reddit account and serve you even more personalized ads.

That sounds like total overkill. To deanonymize a reddit account, it is easier to just use a add/cookie/script on reddit to link it to your facebook account you have open in another tab.

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Post by colordrops »

hutzlibu wrote: post #207
hadtodoit wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not obvious? Facebook has enough of your conversations to fingerprint your writing style. Now they can de-anonimize your reddit account and serve you even more personalized ads.

That sounds like total overkill. To deanonymize a reddit account, it is easier to just use a add/cookie/script on reddit to link it to your facebook account you have open in another tab.

How exactly would you do that? Reddit doesn't allow random scripts by 3rd parties.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by hutzlibu »

aerovistae wrote: post #182
pesenti wrote: post #152

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We are evaluating the possibility. But this is really for research only. To go beyond that we need further improvements to the safety layer.

What does safety mean in this context? (I'm not an AI researcher.)

Maybe that the bot does not start denying the holocaust, like the one from microsoft.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)

(but I am not sure if this bot does indeed learn from new conversations)

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Post by PlasticTank »

pesenti wrote: post #71

Blog post: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/state-of-the-art-open-source-ch... Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13637.pdf Open Source: https://parl.ai/projects/recipes/ Ask us anything, the Facebook team behind it is happy to answer questions here.

How long until you have to shutdown because it starts getting offensive like Tay?
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