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Facebook M – The Anti-Turing Test
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#23Humans working at facebook scale! Would be interesting to see how many people are employed to do this...Are they Googling?
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "The opinion is split as to whether or not it’s a real AI, and there seems to be no way of proving its nature on way or the other." Clearly, the author didn't even do the most basic fact checking. Since, Facebook clearly told everyone that M was going to be AI that was assisted by humans. It's literally in the announcement post: https://www.facebook.com/Davemarcus/posts/10156070660595195 > "It's powered by artifici…
You know how to read, great for you. But that doesn't say much, as all AI that was ever attempted was trained and supervised by people. Plus this was blackbox testing and I found it to be an interested read nonetheless.
That's simply not true. There is such thing as unsupervised learning in AI.
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#25This reminds me of the Focused people in Vernor Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky", slaves that were integrated into the computer system to provide function that surpassed the computer's built in intelligence.
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#26Tihs is uslulay how I tset wehther i'm tlaknig to an ai or not
This is always impressive to me, I didn't realize a thing until "tlaknig"! Although I suppose you could specifically train an AI to recogize this.
Taking the best match from a spell checker on unrecognized words will handle most of it.
A threshold would probably work better against a mix of jumbled words and real gibberish.
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#27I don't get the part about the reverse number lookup. Couldn't they be using a disposable phone number that is allocated to Facebook? That's what Handy, Airbnb, Uber, etc. do. Why would they have to block their caller id? And how does either method prove or disprove that M is human?
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#28Why is this even a question? According to Facebook itself, it's mostly human-driven. http://recode.net/2015/11/03/facebooks-virtual-assistant-m-i...
I think it's an interesting exercise in how to prove the level of human involvement in this AI.
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#29I wonder how many years it will be before a real AI can compete with Facebook's AI? I guess by the time that's possible Facebook's pretend AI will already have cornered the market. The public will only be able to see that you were the late entrant and that while your AI is faster it's occasionally incorrect in peculiar ways... This seems like a fairly solid plan by Facebook to crown themselves the winners of a race t…
Pretending you have a working technology when you don't has been a recent theme in the startup world.
Thomas Edison claimed to have a long lasting light bulb before he actually did. He showed it to reporters one at a time in a booth. Between observers, he would change out the light for a fresh one. Source "How We Got to Now: Light" (on Netflix currently, at least in the US). Found the clip on PBS. Skip to 2:20 for the specific part: http://www.pbs.org/how-we-got-to-now/big-ideas/light/
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#30I don't get the part about the reverse number lookup. Couldn't they be using a disposable phone number that is allocated to Facebook? That's what Handy, Airbnb, Uber, etc. do. Why would they have to block their caller id? And how does either method prove or disprove that M is human?
That doesn't prove that M's human, what prove's it's human is that a Human voice called. The fact it says Facebook is just evidence that it was indeed from M, and not just him getting his friend to call him and pretend.