Machine Learning Follows Friends Off Cliff

Parent: If all of your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it? Machine Learning AI: Yes

A social-media-style joke shows a parent asking whether someone would follow their friends off a cliff, and a machine-learning AI answering “Yes.” The punchline mocks AI as blindly imitative and lacking independent judgment. EN: A social-media-style joke shows a parent asking whether someone would follow their friends off a cliff, and a machine-learning AI answering “Yes.” The punchline mocks AI as blindly imitative and lacking independent judgment.

• @ithueti / 1135 2019-08-01