It depends on the computers In some cases it kinda devolves into chaos and nonsense
I think Facebook did an experiment like this not long ago and the computers developed their own language
Oh hey aj
which I guess is basically chaos and nonsense oh hey do you like star wars?
Yeah I was actually gonna mention that very same project Hahaha
hahaha
The cool thing with it was From what I remember reading Even though it LOOKED like chaos and nonsense to us, Their was pattern that held meaning to the bots
yeah I remember that. Crazy stuff man
Like I remember something about how it would use the word "the" to signify a single item And to dignify repetition of instructions or something, it would repeat "the" over and over
Things like that scare me with AI. Usually I'm pretty excited about things like that but developing language is scary haha
And the cool part is the meanings that words like "the" or "she" took on were very loosely related to an abstract version of the word's loose meaning in English Yeah, that's true Or, another experiment that this reminds me of is one Google did a few years ago
Whats that?
I don't remember a ton but I do remember that they had created 3 AIs and they were able to get 2 of them to create a cipher or encryption algorithm or something.
no way
And then they had the third try to break it and it couldn't So, kind of like the Facebook thing
Thats pretty nuts
Yeah It's one thing for humans to not perfectly understand what's going on under the hood
Artificial Intelligence is going to come with a very interesting set of ethics over the next few years I think
But it's weirder when you have other computers, probably pretty similar computers, who are out of the loop Yeah totally I hear that a lot of the intro classes deal with ethics
Which ones are those?
One of the 400 level classes about artificial intelligence here at BYU deals almost exclusively with ethics I don't remember the name I haven't taken it One of the cs professors who teaches it just mentioned that when I was talking to him.
I hate that I keep finding more and more classes I want to take that I know I will probably never get around to taking haha
Oh man yeah I've thought about just auditing some though
That wouldn't be a bad idea
That way it's not a huge time commitment and it doesn't put my grades at risk And if it's not interesting or it's too far above my level or I get to busy I can just do my own thing *too
That's a good point. I guess I can always just look forward to more classes if I go to grad school or something.
right haha More classes more money
mm hmm
(money spent that is)
MM HMM
and hopefully money gained later on down the road I guess
that's the hope isn't it? You wanna do artificial intelligence stuff for the rest of your life?
I think it would be way cool But I'm not set on it specifically
What other subjects would you consider?
Whatever it is it would be something in cs or engineering I've thought about cyber security But I don't know a whole lot about that
That would also be super cool
Yeah I've done some app development and it's enjoyable But at the same time I kinda want to do more
I totally get that
Do more researchy kinds of stuff
I've done a few lower level engineering jobs, and they are ok, but not that rewarding.
Maybe not necessarily in academia or at a university Yeah, I mean, at least its in the vein of what I enjoy, and there's some problem solving and stuff But you're definitely right that there's more rewarding stuff.
Yup
Have you mentioned what you're studying?
We wanna be on the cutting edge I'm mechanical engineering
Oh nice I'm trying to think of a cutting edge put pun Like about mechanically engineering better knives
haha exactly
But I'm a little low on sleep so I'll just have to leave it at that
That's what I'm trying to do
And let you do the putting the joke together part of it
Hmm. I'll have to think about that one too haha
Have you seen much about the Origami projects in the ME department?
Oh yeah. I have a couple of friends working in those labs. I even applied for it once but didn't get in. It's a really good lab with some cool projects
Oh, that's cool I just remember when the art museum did a display on that.
Yeah, the professor who does it here basically wrote the textbook on the subject He's kind of a big deal
Yeah? I believe it He teaches my honors class (if I'm thinking of the same guy) And he just gave a presentation on some of the stuff they've done
Oh sweet
I work in a lab for the chemical engineering department and I've overheard some of the grad students joke about figuring how to incorporate origami into their research so they can get more publicity and funding haha
Haha yeah its definitely a good way to get your research on the front page
Yeah, and mostly because it's cool and it has cool applications
Exactly
Like as much as it might sound a little gimmicky, watching animations of some of those contraptions can blow your mind It's like "wait, that...came from...that? It used to be shaped like that and now its... huge?"
For sure. There's a pretty well defined method to developing some of that stuff and I imagine the math behind it is pretty cool too.
Yeah seriously In his presentation he was talking about the development process and he said "and there's all sorts of cool math behind this"
haha called it
And I was like "Heck yeah" and then he said "But I won't bore you with that here"
What a bummer
And I was a little disappointed But I probably wouldn't have followed it very well either
I've got to get to class. Good talking to you yet again jsmil3