This is fun, I guess. I've seen other posts on this blog as well. It's all moderately interesting, but with the best ones filtered to the top by a human, doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose? Seems like wasted research dollars, to me.
This is an insight into the future where many news articles will be written by robots. The fact that it produces some odd output is useful data that we can learn from.
It's also interesting to see how much certain words and ideas crop up. Lots of people suing each other.
1. "Experiment" was the wrong terminology to use, it's nothing but humor. 2. Don't think of it as writing future headlines, think of it more as writing headlines that "could have occurred" in such and such decade. Like, "here's a joke about headlines on Slashdot in the 90s." You couldn't base a whole tv show on it, of course -- "That Slashdot 90s Show", anyone?
It did go to show just how bullshit all this "AI" is... which does go against the tone of half the slashdot articles it seems.
Neural Net being trained to help boy find lost dog
Is AI going to replace your local barista?
Google testing AI which will push the bounds of human achievement
Oddly enough, it does suggest that AI is "good" at humor, at least in the field of comedy with which both mad libs and screaming homeless folk practice.
Meh (Score:5, Interesting)
This is fun, I guess. I've seen other posts on this blog as well.
It's all moderately interesting, but with the best ones filtered to the top by a human, doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose?
Seems like wasted research dollars, to me.
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This is an insight into the future where many news articles will be written by robots. The fact that it produces some odd output is useful data that we can learn from.
It's also interesting to see how much certain words and ideas crop up. Lots of people suing each other.
Re:Meh (Score:2)
This is an insight into the future where many news articles will be written by robots.
Unless future events will occur by randomly shuffling events of the past to make news, I'm not clear what this experiment demonstrates that's useful.
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1. "Experiment" was the wrong terminology to use, it's nothing but humor.
2. Don't think of it as writing future headlines, think of it more as writing headlines that "could have occurred" in such and such decade. Like, "here's a joke about headlines on Slashdot in the 90s." You couldn't base a whole tv show on it, of course -- "That Slashdot 90s Show", anyone?
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It did go to show just how bullshit all this "AI" is... which does go against the tone of half the slashdot articles it seems.
Oddly enough, it does suggest that AI is "good" at humor, at least in the field of comedy with which both mad libs and screaming homeless folk practice.