[FRIAM] AI etiquette, Marijuana research

[cody dooderson]

It is surprising that AI is so creative. Many science fiction robots were
calculated but uncreative. They are like Data from star trek, basically a
calculator with very little creative potential. But it seems like AI, as it
develops, is actually more creative than its human counterparts.
Here are a few examples that come to mind. AlphaGo beat the grandmaster,
Lee Sedol, with moves that the grandmaster had never seen before. The art
world is seeing some very cool stuff coming out of trained neural networks
like Dall-e2*.  In the Sony article, they talk about a trick where the AI
put a wheel on the grass to initiate a controlled slide. Do you think that
modern Neural networks will give any insight into the nature of creativity?




* Dall-e2 https://www.reddit.com/r/weirddalle/

Cody Smith


On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 7:19 AM Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:

> Two articles from MIT Tech Review.
>
>
> https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/19/1056176/sonys-racing-ai-destroyed-its-human-competitors-by-being-nice-and-fast/
>
> Training AI drivers for Gran Turismo racing, it turns out that they can
> learn to physically drive faster than people, but they're too aggressive to
> win head to head races because they drive the competition off the road.  So
> you need to train them to observe the norms of the competition, by
> including penalties for crashes, bumps, cut-offs, etc, into the training.
> They still drive faster than people, and the way they drive is a bit
> disturbing to watch.
>
> [So if you were training AI drivers for political races, would the norms
> come from established law or where the voters could be persuaded to mark
> their polls?]
>
>
> https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/20/1056219/weed-influencer-and-scientist-feud-over-cannabis-hyperemesis-syndrome/
>
> The scientist and the instagram influencer attempt to study the genetic
> causes of CHS (cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome) and the influencer blows
> up the study when she declares that the scientist is a shill on her
> channel.  Ah the joys of decision making with uncertainty and cognitive
> bias.
>
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