AI

lol someone screwed up an if statement

if AI were REALLY smart it would have used two of itself to invent how to crash the stock market, and then used three of itself to be able to do it with plausible deniability

ryan, reducing the complexity of input data by using a limited (although, yes, often still quite high) number of parameters to internally represent and "think" about a problem is already a very integral part of how the approaches that people these days call "AI" work.

It's the whole von Neumann "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk" thing...

This is relevant to today's discussion: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/16/17985168/deep-learning-revolution-terrence-sejnowski-artificial-intelligence-technology

Right, I’ve heard about this in the context of these networks creating fake videos. They really generate new things that seem realistic, right?

They are, in a sense, generating internal activity. This turns out to be the way the brain works. You can look out and see something and then you can close your eyes and you can begin to imagine things that aren’t out there. You have a visual imagery, you have ideas that come to you when things are quiet. That’s because your brain is generative. And now this new class of networks can generate new patterns that never existed. So you can give it, for example, hundreds of images of cars and it would create an internal structure which can generate new images of cars that have never existed and they all look totally like cars.

accidentally type "\\sars_images" and we've got new strains of deadly virus sars