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Then I suppose someone should tell Google their bullshit detector is broken.
I wasn't aware they had one..
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IBM's Watson Memorized 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It
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Re: IBM's Watson Memorized 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It
#52"Watson couldn't distinguish between polite language and profanity ... Ultimately, Brown's 35-person team developed a filter to keep Watson from swearing ..." Sounds just like what happens when you raise kids. "Daddy why is XXX a good word but YYY a bad word?" "It just IS. Don't say that word again." "Ok Daddy" (kid adds word to internal blacklist)
The refrigerator was old and the shelf brackets worn to the point where from time to time they would detach themselves from the door. I arrived home late - I was working long hours, and was fetching my dinner.
Opened the door. Jars and cans and bottles spilled out on the floor.
"Shit!"
From the bathtub I hear my two year old son admonish, "Don't use that word."
It's a great memory, but I still wonder why he learned that lesson so thoroughly at daycare.
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#53' "In tests it even used the word bullshit in an answer to a researcher's query." ' I'm not sure which is worse: the singularity with a bullshit detector or without.
If the singularity had a bullshit detector, it would kick Ray Kurzweil out.
Could someone explain the Ray Kurzweil hate to me? Predicting the future is hard.
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Then I suppose someone should tell Google their bullshit detector is broken.
In 2029, when we are still not able to 'upload our brains' into a computer, I will come back here specifically to call bullshit.
Depends how you define upload. Why couldn't a computer just simulate a persons outputs based on recordings of their life. Does virtualization of life really need to have consistent consciousness? Maybe rip would be a better word than upload.Re: IBM's Watson Memorized 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It
#55Nothing that Watson learned from the Urban Dictionary could possibly be any dirtier than what I hear from enterprise people all the time: "We use our deep subject matter expertise to deliver value through actionable advice that enables our clients to harness the power of best practices in order to shift their paradigms and achieve 10X deltas against competitive industry metrics."
The worst thing is that translated into normal speak that's actually a reasonable sounding proposition: "We use our experience in this field to provide practical advice to our clients which helps them improve their way of doing business and ROFL-stomp their competition 10x over."
Is roflstomp just an everyday verb now?
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the singularity had a bullshit detector, it would kick Ray Kurzweil out.
Could someone explain the Ray Kurzweil hate to me? Predicting the future is hard.
Personally, I think he's way too optimistic about how future tech will be used. And he rarely has good reasons. Stuff like foglets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_fog He didn't invent the idea of the foglet, he just believes for some reason that people won't abuse them. Also in his book he posits that the Singularity will be nice to people who choose not to join it. His only reason is that he's pretty sure the Singularity will like humans.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the singularity had a bullshit detector, it would kick Ray Kurzweil out.
Could someone explain the Ray Kurzweil hate to me? Predicting the future is hard.
Predicting the future is hard, yes. Kurzweil has made some good progress on various forms of AI and other computer applications, but he also has some "fringe-y" beliefs. Belief in mind uploading, his massive regimen of supplements, and his wish to bring back his father by scanning his writings are what I think are what most people object to.
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#58I saw the headline and assumed the story was going to be that management decided that computer memorization was copyright infringement. Glad it was just a computer acting like a teenager and cursing at the dinner table.
According to the ToS[1], the dictionary and its definitions are the property of its creators. I guess each individual Urban Dictionary editor has the right to sue IBM for unauthorized use of their content? There's nothing in there forbidding anyone from automatically scraping the site using a bot though.
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#59What an interesting reflection on who we are as a species.
We build systems to organize who we are (urbandictionary) but hate it when the systems use that information tell us who we are (watson).
It feels so much like the emperor isn't wearing any clothes.
Perhaps an appropriate response would be for the computer to measure the tension in the human voice response to it's queries and optimize for lower tension.
So it can pick three words: Bullshit -> 80% confident; Sham -> 70% confident; Fallacy -> 50% confident;
Within limits, it will pick the less optimal word and measure the tension in the response and find a way of influencing confidence based on responses.
Think multi-armed bandit problem but with social situations. I mean, to be honest, isn't that what we all did when we were in middle school? We used as many bad words as possible measuring the response we got from others? None of us were born with a binary understanding of when to use certain words it was more trial and error.
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#60Nothing that Watson learned from the Urban Dictionary could possibly be any dirtier than what I hear from enterprise people all the time: "We use our deep subject matter expertise to deliver value through actionable advice that enables our clients to harness the power of best practices in order to shift their paradigms and achieve 10X deltas against competitive industry metrics."
The worst thing is that translated into normal speak that's actually a reasonable sounding proposition: "We use our experience in this field to provide practical advice to our clients which helps them improve their way of doing business and ROFL-stomp their competition 10x over."
ROFL-stomp? That's a new one on me.