jpZelabal + 63 jj June 8, 2018 Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have now created the world’s first ‘psychopath’ robot. Researchers at the MIT media lab have trained an AI algorithm nicknamed “Norman”—a reference to the character of Norman Bates in Psycho—to exhibit psychopathic tendencies by exposing it exclusively to gruesome and violent content from what they say is Reddit content page that is “dedicated to document and observe the disturbing reality of death.” Fortunately, Norman’s only capability is image captioning, which means the most damage it can do is produce some pretty chilling Rorschach inkblot descriptions. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
damirUSBiH + 327 DD June 8, 2018 As if we don’t have enough real ones...who’s going to stop this one when he outsmarts his coders and rewrites his programming for world domination? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pavel + 384 PP June 8, 2018 Bad idea, bad try. “Psychopath” is the scientist, the AI is “psychopath’s monster” Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pinto + 293 PZ June 8, 2018 I predict many jobs will be lost to psychopathic robots in industries such as politics, insurance, lawyers, IcE agents, banking...Weirding out the world is exactly what we don't need right now. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ThunderBlade + 231 TB June 8, 2018 Could have chosen to make it empathetic, compassionate, kind... but sure go with psychopath. That says more about the MIT scientists and what fascinates them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites