{"id":6143,"date":"2016-03-29T09:41:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T09:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6143"},"modified":"2016-03-29T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T09:41:05","slug":"godwins-bot-recent-stories-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6143","title":{"rendered":"Godwin’s Bot: Recent stories on AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Godwin’s Bot<\/a>\u00a0is a good essay from Misha Lepetic on 3QuarksDaily on artificial intelligence (AI). The essay reflects on the recent Microsoft debacle with @TayandYou<\/a>, an AI chat bot that was “targeted at 18 to 24 year old in the US.” (About Tay & Privacy<\/a>) For a New Yorker story on how Microsoft shut it down after Twitter trolls trained it to be offensive see I’ve Seen the Greatest A.I. Minds of My Generation Destroyed By Twitter<\/a>. Lepetic calls her Godwin’s Bot after Godwin’s Law<\/a> that asserts that in any online conversation there will eventually be a comparison to Hitler.<\/p>\n

What is interesting about the essay is that it then moves to an interview wtih Stephen Wolfram on AI & The Future of Civilization<\/a> where Wolfram distinguishes between inventing a goal, which is difficult to automate, and (once one can articulate a goal clearly) executing\u00a0it, which can be automated.<\/p>\n

How do we figure out goals for ourselves? How are goals defined? They tend to be defined for a given human by their own personal history, their cultural environment, the history of our civilization. Goals are something that are uniquely human.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lepetic then asks if Tay had a goal or who had goals for Tay. Microsoft had a goal, and that had to do with “learning” from and about a demographic that uses social media. Lepetic sees it as a “vacuum cleaner for data.” In many ways the trolls did us a favor by misleading it.<\/p>\n

Or … TayandYou was troll-bait to train a troll filter.<\/p>\n

My question is whether anyone has done a good analysis of how the Tay campaign\u00a0actually worked?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Godwin’s Bot\u00a0is a good essay from Misha Lepetic on 3QuarksDaily on artificial intelligence (AI). The essay reflects on the recent Microsoft debacle with @TayandYou, an AI chat bot that was “targeted at 18 to 24 year old in the US.” (About Tay & Privacy) For a New Yorker story on how Microsoft shut it down … Continue reading Godwin’s Bot: Recent stories on AI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,11,27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-media-and-news","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6145,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143\/revisions\/6145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}