On 2017-03-10 12:59, Keith Smith wrote:
> Please stop now before we end up feuding for days. I will not go
> political.
Could people posting politics possibly permute the Subject: line to
something different? That way people talking about code-writing bots
and/or twitter bots could filter that Subject out.
> Let us take this effort and maybe figure out these security and
> hacking issues that are in the forefront.
The article described code-writing software that solved problems that
required <= 5 lines of code. This is fairly trivial stuff[0]. However,
"Microsoft has created a program that writes code to solve certain very
small problems" is much more boring than "Microsoft has created an AI
that can write its own code".
If a HypotheticalBot were widely used to write code, then that'd cause
security/hacking concerns because it'd almost certainly produce a bunch
of similar solutions to things. I would guess this'd have roughly the
same impact as having a large percentage of desktop machines running the
exact same version of Windows 10. I Could Be Wrong.
The problems with Tay show that you need to exercise caution when
letting the internet just pour unfiltered junk into a machine-learning
algorithm. There are a lot of jerks out there, they seem to have a lot
of free time, and they want to amuse themselves at your expense.
Also, a human who is exposed to thousands of people shouting "X is
bad!" for days at a time will probably start feeling bad about X. A
much less sophisticated neural network that has 50% or more of its data
set filled with variations on "X is bad" will probably create output
that reflects that. No idea how you'd get around that. Periodic
reboots/purging of bad data? (This may be one of the functions of REM
sleep in mammals, but that's getting a little handwavy.)
[0] Unless the lines of code were very long and in Perl.
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