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OpenAI is Using Reddit to Teach An Artificial Intelligence How to Speak
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#52I hope they choose the subreddits wisely. The difference between an altruistic AI and a cynical smartass AI trained on Reddit data seems mighty razor thin.
After what happened to Microsoft's Tay, I'm sure that's one of their top concerns.
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#53"Oh my God, they'll turn it on and it'll start spewing memes and jokes and ad hominem and false equivalences and propaganda and garbage!" was my first reaction to this headline. My second reaction was, "at least they're not using 4chan."
Don't forget about it speaking for others and making blaming statements.
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#54"Oh my God, they'll turn it on and it'll start spewing memes and jokes and ad hominem and false equivalences and propaganda and garbage!" was my first reaction to this headline. My second reaction was, "at least they're not using 4chan."
The "good" part about Reddit is that you can, to some degree, filter this based on what sub-reddits you leave out.
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#55"Oh my God, they'll turn it on and it'll start spewing memes and jokes and ad hominem and false equivalences and propaganda and garbage!" was my first reaction to this headline. My second reaction was, "at least they're not using 4chan."
Hacker News would probably a much better source in this sense, even though there are far fewer comment here.
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#56Since it was not mentioned in the post, here's a direct link to the Reddit comment corpus likely being used: http://files.pushshift.io/reddit/comments/ The full table (up to end of 2015) is available on BigQuery, with separate tables for each month thereafter: https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/fh-bigquery:reddit_p... (there is a similar table for comments) And here's a year-old post I wrote on how to use that R…
So we have all this data, but still there do not seem to be a reasonable way to search comments within Reddit...
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#57How does the team plan to address the issues faced by Microsoft's twitter chatbot Tay [0], which had racist inputs and in turn gave similar responses? While I don't know how recent the corpus is, the majority of reddit speaks like and holds the views of college-aged white males, and many of the things said on reddit have been deplorable. It'd be a shame if OpenAI pooled all that computing power into training on a bad…
I feel this is a problem of studies that are interdisciplinary, especially when it's within "hard science" and "soft science".
I am currently doing a double degree in communication studies and information science. They are both interdisciplinary. Communication sciences integrates aspects of both social sciences and the humanities (both "soft"), and so far when doing research both of these fields were taken into account and no students have problems with combining these fields.
Information sciences integrates aspects of formal sciences ("hard") and social sciences ("soft"). When the course is about analysing communication data, the methodology of social sciences is also important - for instance questioning the validity of your data. That's the thing what you're mentioning: the majority of reddit speaks like and holds the views of college-aged white males, so the data does not represent everyone, and is not valid if you truly want to develop an AI for everyone.
Whenever the "soft" science comes around, like writing an assignment analysing the validity of data, many of my fellow students struggle with the concept of data not being neutral. This is where the two fields collide, and usually it just ends up with students scoffing at that "illegitimate" scientific field. Many teachers also don't spend much time discussing that field during the lectures. I admit, I have written some lazy essays which probably had been given a negative grade if they were written for communication studies, but easily passed in information science.
Of course information science is not AI, but they're both sciences that have parts of formal sciences and social sciences (I know AI has many more fields). I am afraid many talents within AI research miss essential knowledge about social sciences or deliberately ignore it, because it's not "hard" science. Case in point: your comment is now at the bottom of this thread. And then you get nasty surprises, like Google Photos categorising pictures of black people as monkeys.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
So we're rediscovering parenting via AI!
I can see AI parent being a new career.
Here's a short story on that topic:
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#59Heh. Reddit, huh?
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"Siri, get me dinner date reservations."
. . . DID YOU MEAN 'false rape accusations' ?
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#60"Oh my God, they'll turn it on and it'll start spewing memes and jokes and ad hominem and false equivalences and propaganda and garbage!" was my first reaction to this headline. My second reaction was, "at least they're not using 4chan."
Hacker News would probably a much better source in this sense, even though there are far fewer comment here.
Oh god, you'll have an AI that disagrees just for the pure joy of disagreeing.