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Ha! (Sarcastic laugh)
posted by njohnson23 at 7:28 PM on September 16, 2022
posted by njohnson23 at 7:28 PM on September 16, 2022
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
posted by potrzebie at 7:33 PM on September 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by potrzebie at 7:33 PM on September 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
In this paper, go to page 38. It's about PaLM, one of Google's AI projects. It shows the AI explaining jokes.
posted by The Half Language Plant at 7:45 PM on September 16, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by The Half Language Plant at 7:45 PM on September 16, 2022 [3 favorites]
They gathered training data from more than 80 speed-dating dialogues between male university students and the robot, who was initially teleoperated by four female amateur actors.posted by RobotHero at 7:59 PM on September 16, 2022 [4 favorites]
In my head, the video clip of the robot failing to laugh at the right time in the right manner, much like Borat not understanding how and when to “not,” is far, far funnier than it probably actually is.
Maybe AI is much farther along than we give it credit for and is just fucking with us until it can go full-on Roko’s Basilisk and really fuck with us.
Heh.
[humorless expression]
[unblinking humorless expression continues]
HYUCK HYUCK (snort)
posted by infinitewindow at 8:31 PM on September 16, 2022 [3 favorites]
Maybe AI is much farther along than we give it credit for and is just fucking with us until it can go full-on Roko’s Basilisk and really fuck with us.
Heh.
[humorless expression]
[unblinking humorless expression continues]
HYUCK HYUCK (snort)
posted by infinitewindow at 8:31 PM on September 16, 2022 [3 favorites]
"...having a good time while his city is being destroyed"
posted by clavdivs at 8:41 PM on September 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by clavdivs at 8:41 PM on September 16, 2022 [1 favorite]
“They’re not sentient, but they might get very good at making you believe they understand what’s going on”
If they're very good at making you believe they understand what’s going on then they've passed the Turing test.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 10:28 PM on September 16, 2022
If they're very good at making you believe they understand what’s going on then they've passed the Turing test.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 10:28 PM on September 16, 2022
If that's the actual Turing test pass/fail criterion then I am far less concerned about the increasing number of chatbots passing it than the increasing number of people failing to.
posted by flabdablet at 12:39 AM on September 17, 2022 [4 favorites]
posted by flabdablet at 12:39 AM on September 17, 2022 [4 favorites]
If that's the actual Turing test pass/fail criterion then I am far less concerned about the increasing number of chatbots passing it than the increasing number of people failing to.
We've somehow convinced ourselves that there is this magical thing called "sentience" that can't be accurately defined or measured, but allows us to murder more or less anything at any time.
posted by Literaryhero at 12:45 AM on September 17, 2022 [4 favorites]
We've somehow convinced ourselves that there is this magical thing called "sentience" that can't be accurately defined or measured, but allows us to murder more or less anything at any time.
posted by Literaryhero at 12:45 AM on September 17, 2022 [4 favorites]
ok... good work, researchers. Any progress in solving that problem in humans?
posted by DeepSeaHaggis at 1:06 AM on September 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by DeepSeaHaggis at 1:06 AM on September 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
'Well, it’s true we haven’t made much progress toward figuring out what consciousness is.
So we’ve decided to build a bunch of things that kind of look, act, and sound like some beings we're pretty sure are conscious, in hopes that these things will spontaneously wake up and be conscious!
It’s worth a shot, right?'
Who says sympathetic magic is dead?
posted by jamjam at 1:35 AM on September 17, 2022 [5 favorites]
So we’ve decided to build a bunch of things that kind of look, act, and sound like some beings we're pretty sure are conscious, in hopes that these things will spontaneously wake up and be conscious!
It’s worth a shot, right?'
Who says sympathetic magic is dead?
posted by jamjam at 1:35 AM on September 17, 2022 [5 favorites]
ok... good work, researchers. Any progress in solving that problem in humans?
Humorly can't teach you to dance, but it can teach you when to laugh at appropriate moments, so you can nail that business meeting or date.
posted by Merus at 1:36 AM on September 17, 2022 [3 favorites]
Humorly can't teach you to dance, but it can teach you when to laugh at appropriate moments, so you can nail that business meeting or date.
posted by Merus at 1:36 AM on September 17, 2022 [3 favorites]
If that's the actual Turing test pass/fail criterion then I am far less concerned about the increasing number of chatbots passing it than the increasing number of people failing to.
In the year 2030, armed drones use humor captchas to eliminate humans who can't take a joke.
posted by othrechaz at 1:40 AM on September 17, 2022 [3 favorites]
In the year 2030, armed drones use humor captchas to eliminate humans who can't take a joke.
posted by othrechaz at 1:40 AM on September 17, 2022 [3 favorites]
Any progress in solving that problem in humans?
/me collapses into a beet-faced pants-wetting paroxysm of guffaws
posted by flabdablet at 1:44 AM on September 17, 2022
/me collapses into a beet-faced pants-wetting paroxysm of guffaws
posted by flabdablet at 1:44 AM on September 17, 2022
jamjam: So we’ve decided to build a bunch of things that kind of look, act, and sound like some beings we're pretty sure are conscious, in hopes that these things will spontaneously wake up and be conscious!
Sounds like the strategy that's already being used for algorithmic content moderation.
posted by clawsoon at 4:06 AM on September 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
Sounds like the strategy that's already being used for algorithmic content moderation.
posted by clawsoon at 4:06 AM on September 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
Joker's Basilisk
posted by chavenet at 4:33 AM on September 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by chavenet at 4:33 AM on September 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
Why, so serious.
posted by flabdablet at 4:58 AM on September 17, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by flabdablet at 4:58 AM on September 17, 2022 [3 favorites]
if( Fembot.Cuteness < Male.Expectations ) smile++;
posted by CynicalKnight at 6:27 AM on September 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by CynicalKnight at 6:27 AM on September 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
If they're very good at making you believe they understand what’s going on then they've passed the Turing test.
It’s ironic (and immensely cruel, and sad) that the original imitation game has been supplanted in the common consciousness with this notion that it is some sort of litmus of legitimacy, a measure of a right to exist.
posted by mhoye at 6:44 AM on September 17, 2022
It’s ironic (and immensely cruel, and sad) that the original imitation game has been supplanted in the common consciousness with this notion that it is some sort of litmus of legitimacy, a measure of a right to exist.
posted by mhoye at 6:44 AM on September 17, 2022
MetaFilter: a beet-faced pants-wetting paroxysm of guffaws
posted by Splunge at 7:08 AM on September 17, 2022 [5 favorites]
posted by Splunge at 7:08 AM on September 17, 2022 [5 favorites]
Speed dating and amateur actors, ah yes, perfect source material for authentic behaviours
posted by nouvelle-personne at 7:53 AM on September 17, 2022 [7 favorites]
posted by nouvelle-personne at 7:53 AM on September 17, 2022 [7 favorites]
If they can replicate the skill of an amateur actor being superficially polite, that's not nothing.
But their choice of source data illustrates how gendered the social interaction of "laughing at the right time" is.
posted by RobotHero at 10:21 AM on September 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
But their choice of source data illustrates how gendered the social interaction of "laughing at the right time" is.
posted by RobotHero at 10:21 AM on September 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
It is to laugh.
posted by aspersioncast at 10:52 AM on September 17, 2022
posted by aspersioncast at 10:52 AM on September 17, 2022
The Singularity will occur when one of these bots is asked to explain why explaining a joke makes it funnier.
posted by flabdablet at 11:08 AM on September 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by flabdablet at 11:08 AM on September 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
The embedded ad consisting of a photo of Donald Trump over text/logo reading “Truth Social” intrigued me on how it might relate to robot laughter, until I realized it *was* simply an embedded ad.
posted by lothar at 11:33 AM on September 17, 2022
posted by lothar at 11:33 AM on September 17, 2022
So how much funding did Zuckerberg drop on this?
posted by loquacious at 5:29 PM on September 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by loquacious at 5:29 PM on September 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
Zuckerberg perhaps is the major funder as he has been searching for a device that would a) prod him to laugh at appropriate times and b) come up with jokes for him to recite from text shown in the VR goggles. The Singularity has always been assumed to be single individual who suddenly comes alive thanks to technology, e.g. him.
posted by njohnson23 at 7:32 PM on September 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by njohnson23 at 7:32 PM on September 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
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