Like so many of these projects do, the MIT researchers started out by training Norman on freely available data found on the Web. Researchers at MIT have created an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm known as Norman, which they trained to display psychopathic tendencies by exposing it only to gruesome and violent imagery freely available on a subreddit. The researchers say the AI is capable of learning from its own mistakes, but that this process can be difficult for people who are not experts in machine learning. Its interpretations of the images were significantly darker than those of a standard AI, demonstrating how an AI’s later behaviour can be biased due to its earlier method of input.
Researchers at MIT have created an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm known as Norman, which they trained to display psychopathic tendencies by exposing it only to gruesome and violent imagery freely available on a subreddit. The researchers say the AI is capable of learning from its own mistakes, but that this process can be difficult for people who are not experts in machine learning. Its interpretations of the images were significantly darker than those of a standard AI, demonstrating how an AI’s later behaviour can be biased due to its earlier method of input.