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> Black box models can be extremely powerful, which is how many scientists and companies justify sacrificing explainability for accuracy. > AI systems have bee

> Black box models can be extremely powerful, which is how many scientists and companies justify sacrificing explainability for accuracy. > AI systems have been used for autonomous cars, customer service chatbots, and diagnosing disease, and have the power to perform some tasks better than humans can. For example, a machine that is capable of remembering one trillion items, such as digits, letters, and words, versus humans, who on average remember seven in their short-term memory would be able to process and compute information at a much faster and improved rate than humans. I suspect this article was written by AI. Or a hack journalist. And most of you haven't read it and are reacting to the title. Certainly won't find any explanations of how AI works on vice.

ClumsyPilot 4y ago
> suspect this article was written by AI. Or a hack journalist. A friend of mine did not belive that the AI based astroturfing problem is real, he though he would tell apart human tweets / letters / phonecalls vs bots. But have you seen some of the dumb shit real people post? the overlap between mental people and bad ai is huge
- dwringer 4y ago
  I'm not sure how many people have messed around with the Character.ai beta but personally I'm awed that it does some of the things it does. It predictably fails at times and makes some odd mistakes, but at other times it insightfully points things out that I hadn't considered and explains itself quite eloquently when prompted. It's a lot better discussing literature and philosophy than science, though... and a compulsive liar. But a human editor willing to paper over the inconsistencies can definitely churn out articles in a fraction of the time with language models like this. And in regular conversation it's easily up there with, or surpasses, your average internet troll (which, as you pointed out, isn't exactly a high bar).
  - htrp 4y ago
    We're also providing the input to train character ai on good quality results
    - dwringer 4y ago
      I didn't fully grasp this comment of yours at the time, but you weren't kidding.
joenot443 4y ago
Just a hack journalist, I think. Her other publications include: "Alaska Canceled Snow Crab Season for the First Time Ever Because All the Crabs Are Gone"
- noobermin 4y ago
  what's wrong with that?

ClumsyPilot 4y ago

> suspect this article was written by AI. Or a hack journalist. A friend of mine did not belive that the AI based astroturfing problem is real, he though he would tell apart human tweets / letters / phonecalls vs bots. But have you seen some of the dumb shit real people post? the overlap between mental people and bad ai is huge

dwringer 4y ago
I'm not sure how many people have messed around with the Character.ai beta but personally I'm awed that it does some of the things it does. It predictably fails at times and makes some odd mistakes, but at other times it insightfully points things out that I hadn't considered and explains itself quite eloquently when prompted. It's a lot better discussing literature and philosophy than science, though... and a compulsive liar. But a human editor willing to paper over the inconsistencies can definitely churn out articles in a fraction of the time with language models like this. And in regular conversation it's easily up there with, or surpasses, your average internet troll (which, as you pointed out, isn't exactly a high bar).
- htrp 4y ago
  We're also providing the input to train character ai on good quality results
  - dwringer 4y ago
    I didn't fully grasp this comment of yours at the time, but you weren't kidding.

joenot443 4y ago

Just a hack journalist, I think. Her other publications include: "Alaska Canceled Snow Crab Season for the First Time Ever Because All the Crabs Are Gone"

noobermin 4y ago
what's wrong with that?