[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4Cast #634: Has artificial intelligence gotten *too* good?

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OPLIN 4Cast #634: Has artificial intelligence gotten *too* good?
February 20th, 2019

[image: brain representing artificial intelligence with printed circuit
board] Have you ever played along with one of those posts on Facebook where
you type in a few suggested words then use your phone's suggestion feature
to complete the sentence? The results can be nonsensical, surreal, mundane,
and/or hilarious. Last week, the non-profit artificial intelligence
research company OpenAI announced
<https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/> that they had built a
neural network language model, GPT-2, that is so good at this game that
OpenAI felt it would be irresponsible of them to make it available to
others. About 50% of the time, GPT-2 can generate text that mimics the
style and content of its input sample, as well as successfully automate
question-answering, summarization, translation, and other language-based
tasks.

   -
   - OpenAI built a text generator so good, it's considered too dangerous
   to release
   <https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/17/openai-text-generator-dangerous/> [
   *TechCrunch*] "With every good application of the system, such as bots
   capable of better dialog and better speech recognition, the non-profit
   found several more, like generating fake news, impersonating people, or
   automating abusive or spam comments on social media."
   - The AI Text Generator That's Too Dangerous to Make Public
   <https://www.wired.com/story/ai-text-generator-too-dangerous-to-make-public/>
   [*Wired*]
   "Clark says OpenAI hopes that by voicing its concerns about its own
   code, it can encourage AI researchers to be more open and thoughtful about
   what they develop and release. '"
   - Artificial Intelligence Is Getting Good at Fake News
   <https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-15/artificial-intelligence-trump-s-smart-american-ai-initiative>
   [*Bloomberg Opinion*] "Stringing together a few formulaic passages from
   a set of numbers is a mechanical job. Inventing a fake news story on a
   random subject requires imagination; not every human is up to it."
   - An AI helped us write this article
   <https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/14/18222270/artificial-intelligence-open-ai-natural-language-processing>
   [*Vox*] "This is the future, and the field of AI is going places we
   could only have guessed at."

*From the Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - Knight, Will. “Reinforcement LEARNING
   <https://proxy.oplin.org:2111/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cph&AN=121426357&site=ehost-live>
   .” *MIT Technology Review*, vol. 120, no. 2, Mar. 2017, pp. 32–35.
   - Miller, John W. “The Creeping Ethical Challenges of Artificial
   Intelligence
   <https://proxy.oplin.org:2111/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=132839449&site=ehost-live>
   .” *America*, vol. 219, no. 11, Nov. 2018, p. 20.
   - Boden, Margaret A. “But Is It Intelligence, Really
   <http://proxy.oplin.org:2402/view/10.1093/actrade/9780199602919.001.0001/actrade-9780199602919-chapter-6>
   ?” *Artificial Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction*. Oxford
   University Press, 23 August 2018, pp. 106-129.

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