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Short Story on AI: Forward Pass

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Re: Short Story on AI: Forward Pass

#11

The foot indeed does have two eyes though. The answer provided by the actual AI (linked in the article) is accurate if not profound, since the foot is attached to a human and most humans have two eyes. It is a pretty solid thesis.

By that logic, my right hand has 10 fingers! :)

Re: Short Story on AI: Forward Pass

#13

A free short story idea for you: in the not-so-distant future, we’ve trained AI to predict the probability you might die on any given day. But it’s trained on so many factors, and reads so many inputs, that no one really knows how it works. So the story is of a random person who suddenly observes their meter jump from the usual 0% to a cautious 3%. Then over the course of the day, it slowly climbs to 20%, and onwards…

> But it’s trained on so many factors, and reads so many inputs, that no one really knows how it works.

But since the model is differentiable you can always trace back which input(s) contributed most to the output.

Re: Short Story on AI: Forward Pass

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post #6

A free short story idea for you: in the not-so-distant future, we’ve trained AI to predict the probability you might die on any given day. But it’s trained on so many factors, and reads so many inputs, that no one really knows how it works. So the story is of a random person who suddenly observes their meter jump from the usual 0% to a cautious 3%. Then over the course of the day, it slowly climbs to 20%, and onwards…

I got GPT-3 to take your story and complete it. It's slightly terrifying. ----------------------------- Short Story In the not-so-distant future, we’ve trained AI to predict the probability you might die on any given day. But it’s trained on so many factors, and reads so many inputs, that no one really knows how it works. So the story is of a random person who suddenly observes their meter jump from the usual 0% to a…

This is fascinating. It actually reads very much like the type of story a verbally-advanced third or fourth grader could come up with — a broad understanding of how to move the story along (escalating stakes represented by increasing percentage values), unexplained and unresolved side plots (what is the deal with the stranger and his card?), and some tantalizing flashes of what appears to be true creativity (the protagonist’s fate).

I had no idea this was the state of the art. I’m blown away.

Re: Short Story on AI: Forward Pass

#16
post #6

A free short story idea for you: in the not-so-distant future, we’ve trained AI to predict the probability you might die on any given day. But it’s trained on so many factors, and reads so many inputs, that no one really knows how it works. So the story is of a random person who suddenly observes their meter jump from the usual 0% to a cautious 3%. Then over the course of the day, it slowly climbs to 20%, and onwards…

I got GPT-3 to take your story and complete it. It's slightly terrifying. ----------------------------- Short Story In the not-so-distant future, we’ve trained AI to predict the probability you might die on any given day. But it’s trained on so many factors, and reads so many inputs, that no one really knows how it works. So the story is of a random person who suddenly observes their meter jump from the usual 0% to a…

Sounds like something Philip K. Dick would've written. I guess if you squint a bit it's basically a rehash of Minority Report.

Re: Short Story on AI: Forward Pass

#17

The foot indeed does have two eyes though. The answer provided by the actual AI (linked in the article) is accurate if not profound, since the foot is attached to a human and most humans have two eyes. It is a pretty solid thesis.

By that logic, my right hand has 10 fingers! :)

And your 10 fingers have two hands!

Re: Short Story on AI: Forward Pass

#18

The foot indeed does have two eyes though. The answer provided by the actual AI (linked in the article) is accurate if not profound, since the foot is attached to a human and most humans have two eyes. It is a pretty solid thesis.

By that logic, my right hand has 10 fingers! :)

Actually 20, because also feet have fingers :D
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