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Ahnaf Ibn Qais's avatar

As someone who worked on these entities myself (Cognitive Science Majors collaborate with the Comp Sci and Programming folks often to make these things "sound more human"):

Not really impressed. Rather, it is standard given the trends I witnessed right before graduation (i.e. 2018). The way these entities work is very straightforward:

They collate accessible information (from the web) and try to orient them to each other (in a pool of "usable information") given the series of salience/relevance landscapes that are from the onset introduced by the "people behind the curtain" (one of those would be me, the others would be the programmers themselves, the computer scientists, etc).

What differentiates the seemingly more "sophisticated" entities from the ones that are more mediocre and "noticeable" has more to do the introductory instructions.

The more minimalistic they are, the more "sophisticated" they tend to become. For instance, some Neural Network programs such as what we saw with AlphaGo try to refrain from basic Linguistic convention and use Formal Schemas (not quite "purely mathematical" but close enough).

What happens then is Mirroring that is far less Laden with "machine-speak". And so the human reader, consumer, etc is bewitched far more quicker.

It is not that he is impressed by the "machine", but rather fallen into the web of interconnections that said machine has collated AND whilst looking for "machine-speak" and other exit points, the lack of those merely impresses him more. It's almost a Loop of "Mental Masturbation" in a way. It's a lot like Narcissus seeing not just his reflection, but multitudes of others.

Contrast that with more primitive systems (which have very clear linguistic cues and "giveaways"), whereby the human reader "exits" the trance far quicker and does not fall into aforementioned "Mental Masturbation" as a result. Narcissus sees the machine far quicker here.

As the West moves closer to its Destruction, this will become the "Opiate of the Masses" ever so more. In particular, more sophisticated such systems will be designed to make sure Narcissus keeps staring at the water... whilst the Sacrificial Knife gets inevitably ever so closer to his neck.

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Fabius Minarchus's avatar

But what happens when AIs get most of their training data from other AIs?

For years, link builders have been using automated article writers to make fake blogs to get links to their money sites. Google's job of separating real blogs from spun articles just got an order of magnitude harder.

I haven't looked looked at the black hat forums in years, but I'd be shocked if they didn't already have a bunch of products using AI. Or even article writing firms where the article writers use the same techniques you just used. After all, the quality of your snippets far exceeds the quality of that produced by article writing firms.

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