Tag: aI

So, this AI spam submission thing is only going to get worse.

(H/T: @RobinDLaws) I don’t know if The Verge has worked its way through the implications of the AI submissions problem yet. Right now, editors can detect AI-generated works of fiction, and they’re rejecting them out of hand*. Their problem? Well, let me put it another way: they’re teaching the AI how to successfully fool the editors. It will likely take some time, but the ultimate goal here is not to write the Great American Science Fiction story: it’s to come up with something that can get past the gatekeepers. That is a much more achievable goal.

It will happen. It probably hasn’t happened yet, but we’re still in the middle of the process. Worse of everyone concerned, it’s a process that will probably end up destroying the entire concept of the speculative fiction magazine — because once AI-generated text gets sophisticated enough to mimic C+ work reliably, why not just buy your own copy of the program, and have it churn out cookie-cutter content that’s specialized for you?

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A Pool of Digital Slush?

Given that I’ve thrown the odd story at Clarkesworld, only to have them invariably throw it back, I want to be careful not to sound too snidely amused at their problem with AI submissions. “On Monday, the editor of the renowned sci-fi publication Clarkesworld Magazine announced that he had temporarily closed story submissions due to a massive increase in machine-generated stories sent to the publication.” I will, however, note that Clarkesworld’s closing of all story submissions sounds very much like they themselves can’t tell AI-generated stories from real ones. Based on what I’ve seen of the recent AI-generated texts, this is not a complement to AI. It’s a trenchant commentary on what Clarkesworld usually publishes.

…Oh, damn. I guess I failed, huh?

UPDATE: I will admit that Karl raises a good point here:

Great moments in AI research: they broke the troll barrier!

No, really. Microsoft getting their new chat AI ‘Tay’ to spectacularly blow up so quickly took some skill:

What happens when you introduce an innocent Artificial Intelligence chat robot to Twitter? Well, it’s kind of predictable – you get an evil Hitler-loving, incestual sex-promoting, ‘Bush did 9/11’-proclaiming robot.

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…They then proceeded to form SkyNet*.

Apparently, if you get two AI programs together to talk to each other, they act like YouTube commenters without the profanity:

You know what that means?  YouTube commenters have just failed the Turing Test.

This has been proved with SCIENCE! You’re welcome.

Moe Lane

(Via @jtLOL)

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So I find stuff like this funny.

If a little obscure:

Artificial Flight and Other Myths

a reasoned examination of A.F. by top birds

Over the past sixty years, our most impressive developments have undoubtedly been within the industry of automation, and many of our fellow birds believe the next inevitable step will involve significant advancements in the field of Artificial Flight.  While residing currently in the realm of science fiction, true powered, artificial flying mechanisms may be a reality within fifty years.  Or so the futurists would have us believe.  Despite the current media buzz surrounding the prospect of A.F., a critical examination of even the most basic facts can dismiss the notion of true artificial flight as not much more than fantasy.

Sue me.