How much do you really know about artificial intelligence?

[on_my_knees]

There's a lot of bot haters who criticize AI and passionately discuss its supposed drawbacks, inserting their perspectives into the conversation. But how well do you truly understand the workings of AI?

Imagine you're a computer tasked with classifying the number "2" from an image. Suppose you have software that extracts each number into a 256-bit grid array.

Can you try to guess the steps the system would take to learn how to recognize what a handwritten "2" looks like?

Hint: their input needs 65,536 (256 x 256) neurons and the output needs 10 neurons, representing the numbers 0-9.

[purplepoppy]

Very little if I'm honest. It just seems to rearrange your question in to an answer and pluck generic stuff off Google. A travel agency recently came under critism for telling people Angel Bay in North Wales is the best place in the uk to see sharks and killer whales patrolling the beaches. No prizes for guessing what they used to write their advertisement. AI isn't intelligent nor are the people who blindly accept its answers or the thousands who turned up to watch orcas munch on seals.

Now here's a nice picture of kittens to help the gagbots learn what cats look like.

[on_my_knees]

The AI in that case was simply doing as it was told -- to reflect the secret death wish of the Welsh people. This is one of the best videos that explains the handwriting problem without going into too much detail that it's overwhelming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk

[O_Canada]

Nothing. Don't care until it learns to play hockey.

[on_my_knees]

We are going to stomp your ass in Women's Basketball today with our She/He

[on_my_knees]

Who ya gonna call? Transvestigators!
I think you better call Transvestigators!
I ain't afraid of no tranny, no tranny, no tranny
Who ya gonna call? Transvestigators!
I think you better call Transvestigators!

When there's something strange
In your neighborhood
Who ya gonna call?
Transvestigators!
When there's something weird
And it don't look good
Who ya gonna call?
Transvestigators!

I see the gay people
Walkin' around like regular people
They could be a-creepin' up behind you
You just might find
They're real, and they want revenge

Transvestigators!

[The_Confusion]

I knew it. Transvestigations will save the world.

[on_my_knees]

I had to return this graphic novel today because it ended up being about trannies
www.simonandschuster.com/.../9781442465954

[Pterodon]

I think before we develop AI we need to cure natural stupidity first