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Facebook M – The Anti-Turing Test

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Re: Facebook M – The Anti-Turing Test

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Post by eli »

AJ007 wrote: post #17
lhnz wrote: post #7

I 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.

I hardly think that's a recent development. Plenty of technology has been sold that way for a long time.

Re: Facebook M – The Anti-Turing Test

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Post by austinjp »

adrianN wrote: post #25

This 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.

I've not read that. Personally i felt we're one step closer to the "cookies" in Charlie Brooker's "White Christmas" episode of Black Mirror.

From the article :

“Our test participant was impressed with how much M could do, but was sometimes disappointed at how long it took,” UserTesting’s report reads. “He concluded that it would be very useful if he could set it to perform a non-­urgent tasks for him while he worked on other things.”

That made me shudder. One person tutting at the poor performance of "it". It seems plausible that robot-powered tasks would complete rapidly, and humans power the slower processes.

So the participant didn't know it was human-powered. If anything, that makes things worse.

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Post by Sujan »

shawabawa3 wrote: post #30
mrdrozdov wrote: post #27

I 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.

https://youtu.be/6QRvTv_tpw0?t=28

;)

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Post by betandr »

argonaut wrote: post #2

Why 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 suppose the interesting point is more that it's being marketed as not really operated by humans as a positive when in many instance in our modern world the reverse is true. And also it's an interesting application of the Turing Test too. :)

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Post by Gankro »

tux3 wrote: post #6
Lewton wrote: post #3

Tihs 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.

To be clear, this is applying the classic observation that if you keep the first and last letter correct, humans are really good at unjumbling the center.
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