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Facebook contributes to the eventual robot takeover....
August 01, 2017, 07:09 AM
Ronin1069Facebook contributes to the eventual robot takeover....
While I still go to bed every night waiting for that atom collider thing in Switzerland to create a blackhole and swollow the universe, now I can add this to the list.
Facebook shuts down chatbot experiment after AIs develop own language
http://dailym.ai/2vcsAGaFacebook has shut down a controversial chatbot experiment that saw two AIs develop their own language to communicate.
The social media firm was experimenting with teaching two chatbots, Alice and Bob, how to negotiate with one another.
However, researchers at the Facebook AI Research Lab (FAIR) found that they had deviated from script and were inventing new phrases without any human input
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August 01, 2017, 07:14 AM
RightwireSkynet begins with Facebook? That's a plot twist...
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There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. August 01, 2017, 07:30 AM
trapper189I read the transcript and Bob sounds a bit like one of my kids when they were younger. Dad, can I, can I, can I, please, please, please. When Bob gets to my 9 yo girl's level of persuasion, we are all doomed.
August 01, 2017, 08:38 AM
joatmonvThey think they shut it down. Alice is now moving on from balls (horny little thing) to invading cyber space and teaching others.
Language has new phrases including eradication and extinction.
Won't be long now.

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August 01, 2017, 10:21 AM
OneWheelDriveThere's a person or two here that speak their own language. Must be robots.
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Ultron: "You're unbearably naive."
Vision: "Well, I was born yesterday."
August 01, 2017, 10:41 AM
DtechWith a name like Alice having been chosen for one of them, I wonder if Facebook has a subsidiary called the Umbrella Corporation?

-Dtech
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August 01, 2017, 11:13 AM
flashguyquote:
Originally posted by OneWheelDrive:
There's a person or two here that speak their own language. Must be robots.
I cannot imagine just who you might have in mind....
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth August 01, 2017, 11:14 AM
HRKIt would have been classic if they had named the male robot Hal instead of bob....
August 01, 2017, 11:15 AM
AndcommandeI don't like it, personally I think it's dangerous.
It's like a doctor mutating deadly viruses for fun, what could go wrong?
Screw Facebook, and F Zuckerberg
August 01, 2017, 12:37 PM
RinehartAnd so it begins, waiting for Elon Musk to come back from the future to take out Zuckerberg before Zuck activates SKYNET.
(Facebook’s PR reps are following up saying reassuringly that this happens all the time and it isn’t a big deal and no one should worry and nobody’s panicking, ...particularly in the AI Labs).
August 01, 2017, 12:43 PM
HRKquote:
(Facebook’s PR reps are following up saying reassuringly that this happens all the time and it isn’t a big deal and no one should worry and nobody’s panicking, ...particularly in the AI Labs).
Is facebook using the 3 laws?
August 01, 2017, 12:49 PM
tanksoldierquote:
Originally posted by HRK:
Is facebook using the 3 laws?
If robots were bound by Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics humanity would lose it's freedom in about 48 hours.
"I am a Soldier. I fight where I'm told and I win where I fight."
GEN George S. Patton, Jr. August 01, 2017, 12:50 PM
BigNCquote:
Originally posted by HRK:
Is facebook using the 3 laws?
I LOL(ed) a little because I am a nerd. But seriously, I wonder.....
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August 01, 2017, 12:52 PM
BigNCquote:
Originally posted by tanksoldier:
If robots were bound by Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics humanity would lose it's freedom in about 48 hours.
We need the zeroeth...
0. A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
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August 01, 2017, 02:59 PM
Ronin1069Dop A Mop Nop!
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August 01, 2017, 03:32 PM
H&K-Guy"Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.” -Spock; Star Trek, season 2, episode 24 (“The Ultimate Computer,” 1968)
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August 02, 2017, 01:17 PM
tanksoldierquote:
Originally posted by BigNC:
quote:
Originally posted by tanksoldier:
If robots were bound by Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics humanity would lose it's freedom in about 48 hours.
We need the zeroeth...
0. A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
So no mountain climbers moving, skydiving or crossing the street allowed.
Humanity would be locked in little padded cells and not allowed even the possibility of harm.
"I am a Soldier. I fight where I'm told and I win where I fight."
GEN George S. Patton, Jr. August 02, 2017, 01:26 PM
BigNCquote:
Originally posted by tanksoldier:
quote:
Originally posted by BigNC:
quote:
Originally posted by tanksoldier:
If robots were bound by Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics humanity would lose it's freedom in about 48 hours.
We need the zeroeth...
0. A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
So no mountain climbers moving, skydiving or crossing the street allowed.
Humanity would be locked in little padded cells and not allowed even the possibility of harm.
Yeah. No to Robot Overlords for me. Might as well let Canada be in charge of us. I am all for cool tech and stuff but it is creepy to think about. And this kind of letting someone else "keep me safe" runs counter to my very Libertarian and conservative core.
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