Author: Ned Dymoke / Source: Big Think
You know the saying “let’s not and say we did”? Artificial intelligence researchers at MIT decided to follow through on a particularly bad idea by creating an AI that is purposefully psychopathic. The AI is named Norman, after Norman Bates from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.
They did it to prove that AI itself isn’t inherently bad and evil, more-so that AI can be bad if fed bad and evil data. So they went to “the darkest corners of Reddit” (their words!), particularly a long thread dedicated to gruesome deaths, and fed it the data from there.
“Data matters more than the algorithm,” says Professor Iyad Rahwan of MIT’s Media Lab. “It highlights the idea that the data we use to train AI is reflected in the way the AI perceives the world and how it behaves.”
This largely speaks to a very common theory called GIGO, or ‘Garbage In, Garbage Out,’ which is as true in AI as it is for…
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