What the hell is MIT thinking?!?!

[JPS35]

Nothing bad could possibly come of this:

http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/07/technology/mit-media-lab-normal-ai/index.html

 

[brianmanahan]

too bad they didn't train it on /r/PeopleF***ingDying

 

[darkswordsman17]

Ok, so its only data was captions of images of death, and so they had it use that in response to other images? So basically, it just compares the general pixel data and then responds with the captions of the image that closest resembles the new image? I feel like people give AI waaaaaaaay too much fucking credit.

 

[Darwin333]

Ok, so its only data was captions of images of death, and so they had it use that in response to other images? So basically, it just compares the general pixel data and then responds with the captions of the image that closest resembles the new image? I feel like people give AI waaaaaaaay too much fucking credit.

I think people call shit AI that the shouldn't be called AI.

 

[brianmanahan]

I think people call shit AI that the shouldn't be called AI.

"hey, this this thing uses an A* algorithm or a neural network? it's basically alive!"

 

[sdifox]

Should have called it Abby Normal