{"id":237,"date":"2020-08-28T09:57:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T13:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/?p=237"},"modified":"2020-09-18T12:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T16:02:19","slug":"how-weird-is-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/2020\/08\/28\/how-weird-is-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"How weird is AI?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For <strong>Friday AI Fun,<\/strong> I&#8217;m sharing one of the first videos I ever watched about artificial intelligence. It&#8217;s a 10-minute TED Talk by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.janelleshane.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Janelle Shane<\/a>, and it&#8217;s actually pretty funny. I do mean &#8220;funny ha-ha.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not wild about the ice-cream-flavors example she starts out with, because what does an AI know about ice cream, anyway? It&#8217;s got no tongue. It&#8217;s got no taste buds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But starting at 2:07, she shows illustrations and animations of what an AI does in a simulation when it is instructed to go from point A to point B. For a robot with legs, you can imagine it walking, yes? Well, watch the video to see what really happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The danger of AI is weirder than you think | Janelle Shane\" width=\"739\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OhCzX0iLnOc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings up something I&#8217;ve only recently begun to appreciate: The results of an AI doing something may be entirely satisfactory \u2014 but the manner in which it produces those results is very <em>unlike<\/em> the way a human would do it. With both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/2020\/08\/11\/how-machines-see\/\">machine vision<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/2020\/08\/24\/what-is-called-ai-but-really-isnt\/\">game playing<\/a>, I&#8217;ve seen how utterly un-human the hidden processes are. This doesn&#8217;t scare me, but it does make me wonder about <em>how our human future will change<\/em> as we rely more on these un-human ways of solving problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re working with AI, it&#8217;s less like working with another human and a lot more like working with some kind of weird force of nature.&#8221;<\/p><cite>\u2014Janelle Shane<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>At 6:23 in the video, Shane shows another example that I really love. It shows the attributes (in a photo) that an image recognition system decided to use when identifying a particular species of fish. You or I would look at the tail, the fins, the head \u2014 yes? Check out what the AI looks for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shane has a new book, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.janelleshane.com\/book-you-look-like-a-thing\" target=\"_blank\">You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It\u2019s Making the World a Weirder Place<\/a>. I haven&#8217;t read it yet. Have you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/88x31.png\"><\/a><br>\n<small><span xmlns:dct=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/\" property=\"dct:title\"><strong>AI in Media and Society<\/strong><\/span> by <span xmlns:cc=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\" property=\"cc:attributionName\">Mindy McAdams<\/span> is licensed under a <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a>.<br>\nInclude the author&#8217;s name (Mindy McAdams) and a link to the original post in any reuse of this content.<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Friday AI Fun, I&#8217;m sharing one of the first videos I ever watched about artificial intelligence. It&#8217;s a 10-minute TED Talk by Janelle Shane, and it&#8217;s actually pretty funny. I do mean &#8220;funny ha-ha.&#8221; I&#8217;m not wild about the ice-cream-flavors example she starts out with, because what does an AI know about ice cream,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/2020\/08\/28\/how-weird-is-ai\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How weird is AI?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[40,79],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-machine-learning","category-robots","tag-errors","tag-faf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macloo.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}