{"id":263703,"date":"2018-06-08T08:20:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T06:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=263703"},"modified":"2018-06-08T08:22:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T06:22:05","slug":"mit-built-a-psychopathic-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/263703-mit-built-a-psychopathic-ai.html","title":{"rendered":"MIT built a psychopathic AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at MIT have created a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/norman-ai.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new artificial intelligence<\/a><\/strong> which it calls the &#8220;world&#8217;s first psychopath AI&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The AI is named &#8220;Norman&#8221; after the disturbed killer from Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s Psycho, and was trained using images posted on a subreddit dedicated to death and graphic images.<\/p>\n<p>MIT used deep learning algorithms to train the program to caption images.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Norman suffered from extended exposure to the darkest corners of Reddit, and represents a case study on the dangers of artificial intelligence gone wrong when biased data is used in machine learning algorithms,&#8221; said MIT.<\/p>\n<p>After training Norman to perform image captioning, the team then compared the AI&#8217;s responses to Rorschach inkblot tests to those of a standard artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the comparison are below.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Norman-Rorschach-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-263707\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Norman-Rorschach-1.jpg\" alt=\"Norman Rorschach 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Norman-Rorschach-1.jpg 726w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Norman-Rorschach-1-396x400.jpg 396w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Norman-Rorschach-1-425x430.jpg 425w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Norman-Rorschach-1-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Norman-Rorschach-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-263711\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Norman-Rorschach-3.jpg\" alt=\"Norman Rorschach 3\" width=\"640\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Norman-Rorschach-3.jpg 726w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Norman-Rorschach-3-444x400.jpg 444w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Norman-Rorschach-3-477x430.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Norman-Rorschach-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-263709\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Norman-Rorschach-2.jpg\" alt=\"Norman Rorschach 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Norman-Rorschach-2.jpg 726w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Norman-Rorschach-2-444x400.jpg 444w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Norman-Rorschach-2-477x430.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/262581-worlds-biggest-ai-startup-raises-1-2-billion-in-six-months.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">World\u2019s biggest AI startup raises $1.2 billion in six months<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at MIT have created a new artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":263705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[44816,7699,51481,51483,8045],"class_list":["post-263703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-deep-learning","tag-mit","tag-norman","tag-pyschopathic-ai","tag-reddit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263717,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263703\/revisions\/263717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}