11-08-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com

When Artificial Intelligence Software Comes Out Even Stupider Than Its Creators Had Hoped

Reporter Jacob Brogan talks with researcher Janelle Shane - who created a neural network to tell knock-knock jokes, only to have it become fixated on the Cow With No Lips joke - about "what's going on under the hood, what her creations might teach us, and why it's so funny when neural networks go bad."
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