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Re: Unsupervised joke generation from big data

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kevincennis wrote: post #16
VladRussian2 wrote: post #11

i wonder did anybody try the same for HN comments? what would be the karma?

I wrote a Markov Chain HN comment generator a few months ago. I'd say a solid 70% of them were pretty funny.

there seems to be a market coming soon for such software - on one side government and politicians need to push their propaganda domestically and internationally through web2.0 and social media channels, on the other side ordinary people may soon want to have artificial realistic chatter generation tools as a way to increase chances of preserving privacy of their communications.

Re: Unsupervised joke generation from big data

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jlgreco wrote: post #28

The last time automated joke generation was discussed on HN, I learned that a large, or at least vocal, amount of people consider it to the be responsibility of anybody running automatic joke generation software to supervise the software to ensure that no truly offensive jokes are inadvertently generated. I don't agree that such a responsibility exists, but it is probably worth keeping in mind that others do if you a…

interesting ethical question - one is supposedly responsible for behavior of his automated tool/robot. If that automated tool is able to build and initiate execution of another, more complex (well big "if" of course here) automated tool ... at what level of complexity of separation the original responsibility ends, if any.

Re: Unsupervised joke generation from big data

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Post by jlgreco »

VladRussian2 wrote: post #33
jlgreco wrote: post #28

The last time automated joke generation was discussed on HN, I learned that a large, or at least vocal, amount of people consider it to the be responsibility of anybody running automatic joke generation software to supervise the software to ensure that no truly offensive jokes are inadvertently generated. I don't agree that such a responsibility exists, but it is probably worth keeping in mind that others do if you a…

interesting ethical question - one is supposedly responsible for behavior of his automated tool/robot. If that automated tool is able to build and initiate execution of another, more complex (well big "if" of course here) automated tool ... at what level of complexity of separation the original responsibility ends, if any.

I assume (for people who think a human is responsible for the first bot) the responsibility always lies with the human, no matter how many bot are involved. I say this simply because nobody is really interested in being mad and yelling at a bot.

Whether or not the human deserves the blame is a tricky question, but I think in practice they will get it regardless.

Re: Unsupervised joke generation from big data

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VladRussian2 wrote: post #33
jlgreco wrote: post #28

The last time automated joke generation was discussed on HN, I learned that a large, or at least vocal, amount of people consider it to the be responsibility of anybody running automatic joke generation software to supervise the software to ensure that no truly offensive jokes are inadvertently generated. I don't agree that such a responsibility exists, but it is probably worth keeping in mind that others do if you a…

interesting ethical question - one is supposedly responsible for behavior of his automated tool/robot. If that automated tool is able to build and initiate execution of another, more complex (well big "if" of course here) automated tool ... at what level of complexity of separation the original responsibility ends, if any.

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Re: Unsupervised joke generation from big data

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Post by user24 »

MrVitaliy wrote: post #32
jaryd wrote: post #3

Link to actual paper: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0894589/petrovic13unsupervise...

I enjoyed their creative abbreviation of terms part-of-speech (POS), local log-likelihood (LOL) and Rank of likelihood (ROFL)!

POS is a standard abbreviation for part-of-speech, but I assume the others aren't ;)

Re: Unsupervised joke generation from big data

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Post by mathattack »

jlgreco wrote: post #28

The last time automated joke generation was discussed on HN, I learned that a large, or at least vocal, amount of people consider it to the be responsibility of anybody running automatic joke generation software to supervise the software to ensure that no truly offensive jokes are inadvertently generated. I don't agree that such a responsibility exists, but it is probably worth keeping in mind that others do if you a…

The issue may be that there are things that we find very funny, but shouldn't.

Re: Unsupervised joke generation from big data

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Post by jlgreco »

mathattack wrote: post #38
jlgreco wrote: post #28

The last time automated joke generation was discussed on HN, I learned that a large, or at least vocal, amount of people consider it to the be responsibility of anybody running automatic joke generation software to supervise the software to ensure that no truly offensive jokes are inadvertently generated. I don't agree that such a responsibility exists, but it is probably worth keeping in mind that others do if you a…

The issue may be that there are things that we find very funny, but shouldn't.

Well, I don't want to misrepresent the point of view too much by trying to interpret it. Here is the discussion I am thinking of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5310421

It isn't a viewpoint I particularly understood during that discussion, or now, so it is probably best to read it for yourself.

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