That would be scary
It would be weird
This is ironic considering these conversations are going to train a neural net.
Why would a computer even ask that?
Yeah, good point.
That seems to imply sentient thought on the computer's part
I feel like once if it ever gains sentience, it would have better things to do. I mean, I guess techinically computers already do ask that.
Haha very true, although it couldn't do all those things if it was turned off
You know, that windows 10 "Please do not turn off your computer, configuring update 0 of 100" That's annoying.
True, I hate waiting for that stuff
Or it could just override the power button so you think it's off but it's not.
Sneaky
That seems like the better route. Then you don't have to worry about humans being helpful.
Somebody would have to program it that way though
Well, unless it's a neural net that's become self aware I'm not sure if neural nets can do that But they do do weird things.
I'll be honest, I don't know what a neural net is
It's just a category of Artificial Intelligence. More specifically it's the mathematical model behind the artificial intelligence.
Alright Are there valid neural nets in today's world?
The model has been around since the 40s but only in about 2012 did computing technology get good enough that people could apply the model to real computing.
Oh right on
Basically it let's you train the computer to supply output data based on input data. So you train it by giving it data, and also giving it sample output data for each input data.
Like how a smart phone gives you the ads it thinks you'd like to see
That's called training data. Those two things together Yea, that probably uses some form of this.
Right on
Anyways, by looking at the sample input and output data, it can develop it's own patterns to match input data to output data. So after training it enough, You can give it input data without corresponding output data And it will run the input data through the patterns it has developed and give you the output data So for instance you could train one by giving it a bunch of pictures as input data and a label as output data.
Oh okay cool. That would definitely be useful
Like a picture of a lion for input data, and the category "lion" as output data.
Yeah yeah
And with enough training data labeled "Lion" or "not Lion" it could learn to recognize picture of lions.
FaceBook does that with faces of people
And that process applies to literally any data as long as you're clever enough to figure out the best way to give it the data And to supply it with sample outputs Yeah! like that. Or google photos does that too.
Oh I didn't know that actually
You tell it the name for a face, and it will recognize that face and group pictures with it together. So you can go an seach for a name And if you told it what face goes to that name, it will give you all pictures with that person in it
I think you can search by picture too, right?
It's really good at it too Yeah. You can. I think the image search just looks for exact matches to the image though
Oh okay that's different then yeah
But google does have a system called google lense that uses more machine learning stuff to recognize more about an image Like you can point it at a cool looking lamp and it will show you where to buy lamps that look cool in similar ways. Or you can point it at an animal and it will do it's best to tell you what kind it is Or at a famous landmark or Painting and it will give you a wikipedia article about it.
Oh right on, that would make searches a lot easier honestly