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DeepMind uses the Daily Mail as a huge training corpus for text comprehension
- Animats 11y agoThe Daily Mail? Not the Times?
- andyjohnson0 11y agoApart from any other problems it may have as a knowledge source, the (London) Times is paywalled.
- jacknews 11y agoHaha, absolutely classic! What will it end up comprehending? David Beckham's love life? How brown skinned foreigners are taking all the jobs? Etc.
- carlob 11y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
- kw71 11y agoREVEALED: You won't believe the SHOCKING markov chains used by HACKERS to train artificial intelligence READING ROBOTS!
- FranOntanaya 11y agoI am sorry to hear you won't believe the SHOCKING markov chains used by HACKERS to train artificial intelligence READING ROBOTS. Tell me more about it.
- jen729w 11y agoIndeed, all I could think is that the resultant AI will end up being an intolerant racist bigot!
- Xophmeister 11y agoHey DeepMind, what causes cancer? > EVERYTHING!
- mcintyre1994 11y agoMore worryingly: Hey DeepMind, go cure cancer for us. Would it work to kill all men, women, childless people, parents and babies first or would it focus on destroying the sun?
- dghf 11y ago> EXCEPT FOR THE STUFF THAT CURES IT! "The Daily Mail Oncological Ontology Project: a blog following the daily mail’s ongoing mission to divide all the inanimate objects in the world into those that cause or cure cancer." https://thedailymailoncologicalontologyproject.wordpress.com/ https://thedailymailoncologicalontologyproject.wordpress.com... http://dailymailoncology.tumblr.com/ http://dailymailoncology.tumblr.com/
- SixSigma 11y agoThis is how Judge Death starts. The crime is life, the sentence death.
- nbevans 11y agoSomewhat worrying that they are feeding DeepMind a diet of DailyMail articles! Maybe this is why Skynet turned rogue. Reading daily trash about celebrities and body image dysmorphia inducing trash, is enough to make anyone go mad.
- paulsutter 11y agoThe original Deepmind paper [1] is based on a really smart idea. Algorithmic development relies on measuring the performance of any proposed algorithm. For reading comprehension, performance is evaluated using Q&A about the corpus. Its difficult to find a large corpus with a comprehensive set of questions about the content. Deepmind is cleverly converting the Daily Mail article summaries into questions by removing a proper noun. For example: Question: Producer X will not press charges against Jeremy Clarkson, his lawyer says. Answer: Oisin Tymon They are using the Daily Mail corpus to develop their algorithm, and that's smart. They aren't relying on it as an important source of information. Maybe all you guys with the dismissive comments have a better idea? [1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.03340.pdf http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.03340.pdf EDIT: Thanks Otik, reworded the opening sentance
- mcintyre1994 11y agoI agree with you - it's a neat idea, though I haven't read the paper yet. I wonder if it has explicit knowledge that they'll always remove a proper noun. Eventually the daily mail will write some article about a place causing or curing cancer, and the poor thing will break down trying to find X in X causes cancer from that corpus :) On another note, I wonder if they could train it on Buzzfeed-esque content without changing the headlines. "You won't believe who Jeremy Clarkson punched!" -> the answer
- peteretep 11y agoSo they're using a corpus as a determining factor for quality assessments, but you don't think that makes it an important source of information?
- Otik 11y agoFor a moment I thought you were calling the Mail "a great paper", but actually the simple language used by it is probably quite good for this purpose. Of course, it does mean that if you ask Deep Mind about the cause of anything negative it will probably tell you "immigrants".
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- latenightcoding 11y agoThis is great are they modelling a neural network to detect bull shit ?
- Fede_V 11y agoGreat, so we will have a racist and reactionary AI that thinks celebrity gossip and immigrant bashing are the most important things in the world. For the non-AIs reading this thread, I highly reccomend https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kitten-block/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kitten-block/ a plugin that replaces every daily mail link with a random picture from kittens & tea, in case you mistakenly click on a daily mail link. Snark aside, the paper is really cool though :)
- vixen99 11y agoYou read trash but I read light amusing gossip. The great thing about dissing the Mail is that you don't have to present any argument; you just toss in a few words and phrases like 'racist', 'trash' and 'immigrant-bashing' (defined as 'the slightest hint of criticism at all regarding immigration levels; add an argued case study and you really are in the gutter), add a dash of stock kitten-smear and the whackjob is done. You're on the high ground and the pathetic masses are on the low.
- batou 11y agoIt's far more worrying than that. I worked for a pollster and it was obvious the DM was able to set an agenda and influence people based on the statistics collected. It's a heavily weaponised tabloid capable of swinging a political victory here and there. The parent poster is merely concerned about the surface area, not the consequences. If it is just words then its laughable but it represents influence and that is beyond dangerous.
- Otik 11y agoI would love to see work as described in the article leading to the ability to analyse and quantify the output of journalistic outlets in terms of political bias, accuracy and depth of reporting. If we had a tool like this, maybe we'd be able to move away from some of the emotive language that we use when talking about outlets like the Mail.
- Fede_V 11y agoIf you'd like, I can dig up several instances of the daily mail being terrible (specifically, their reporting about 'soandso causes cancer', their use of single outrageous instances to infer non-existing trends, the horrendous way they treat their employees, their casual sexism, etc etc..) but that seems out of place in an article which is mostly concerned about machine learning and NLP. I fully stand by the statement that the Daily Mail is a reactionary piece of trash that appeals to the lowest and basest sentiments of its readers though.
- peteretep 11y agoIf you thought institutionalised racism, sexism and chauvinism were bad now, the singularity is going to suck.
- KaiserPro 11y agoI know why they did it, because its the lowest common denominator for celeb gossip. However its shit for science, overtly paedophilic, and the only western news sit that seems to have a special section devoted to curating and promoting ISIS propaganda. Why is it bad? because if you are looking for facts, the daily mail is a bad source. If you are looking for natural language, its a good source, however its full of nuanced racism, sexism, classism & basically everything else thats wrong with britian. It'll be good at describing house prices though.
- raverbashing 11y agoYou're missing a /s at the end, hopefully
- talideon 11y agoI'm afraid not. The Daily Mail is an awful rag. One of its nicknames is "The Daily Hate".
- afandian 11y agoNo, that's a fairly accurate description of the paper. I won't repeat the list, but if you take a look at it the hatred of women, minorities etc really shines through. And a bizarre fanatical interest in house prices and which social group is affecting them.
- raverbashing 11y agoI'm not disagreeing with you with this description of the Daily Mail. But it is irrelevant to the work DeepMind is doing
- johntaitorg 11y agoAnother use for the Daily Mail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlEIryW8zA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlEIryW8zA