Amazon Mime: We train (badly) an AI love bot using divorce bombshell Bezos' alleged sexts to his new girlfriend Within hours of announcing that he and his wife are divorcing, what's alleged to be Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos' steamy texts to his new girlfriend were leaked online. Seeing as the billionaire tech CEO and his cloud giant, AWS, are mad keen on developing and deploying watchdog-worrying invasive artificial intelligence, we …
"I guess Mr Bezos is wanting to play the field a bit, ya know, before he's past his Prime."
Even Bezos is beginning to realize the value of Prime disappears once he's charged extra for his next day delivery of "love toys" and Prime and chime only has enough interesting content to last a couple of dates?
At least he can put his savings on the Prime subscription into his divorce settlement I guess.
Oh....that's not want you meant by past his prime...
Those of you in a friday mood and looking to be educated in that AI definitely definitely isn't just throwing random words together might enjoy the AI Weirdness blog;
As an example of the delights therein, here's some ice cream flavours:
Bloodie Chunk
Goat Cookie
Rawe Blueberry Fist
Candied Nose
Creme die
Apple Pistachio mouth
Chocolate Moose Mange
Bubblegum Chocolate Basil Aspresso
Lime Pig
Elterfhawe Monkey But
Kaharon Chocolate Mouse Gun
Gu Creamie Turd
Mocoa Pistachoopie
Cookies nutur Coconut Chocolate Fish
Peanut Butter Cookies nut Butter Brece Toasterbrain Blueberry Rose
The Reg is better than this? Which alternate reality are you from?
Poking fun at both Tech leaders and Tech Fads - this is exactly why El Reg exists.
On a related note - some of the fake ML/AI bots on Twitter are hilarious. There are a couple of good Trump "bots".
https://twitter.com/keatonpatti/status/1039889888961880064?lang=en
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"I want to be shiny ways to be can want to get a brand in
You work to be worst girl"
Sounds like an extract from the manual for a cheap Chinese sex toy.
Maybe they have had top-secret "advanced AI" for decades, using it to generate English documents, perhaps blissfully unaware of how impenetrable its output can be (or maybe they just don't care as long as we keep throwing money at them), and we're only just rediscovering the technology for ourselves.
"Ohhh! Ok, that's good. That's what you want, isn't it? Other sexual partners also enjoyed these positions: Do you want to consider these options or proceed with your lovemaking? Ok. That's placed correctly... Now, how soon would you like me to cum? I estimate standard delivery in 1-3 minutes, but you can try out a prime option for free... Ohhhh... OK. It's on its way. You can track the delivery using this mobile app. Oh! Just to inform you that I seem to have missed you, but the package was left in a safe place."
That's really more like a simple statistical model that I ran a few decades[1] ago, at least the output looks really similar. Basically, you make a lookup table on what is likely to come after either a certain word or a letter combination - the length of which is the epoch length. Great fun for a few minutes.
Still, it's Friday, let's have a couple of cold ones! This reminds me: I'll need to drive to pick up some beer later.
[1]And I do mean decades: one was written on a C64, the other back in school on a.... 386, I believe. I guess most of us wrote something like this. One of them even had a very rudimentary grammar module to actually construct sentences with subject, verb, object, but no sense... (module taken from an issue of the C64 magazine, I think)
That's really more like a simple statistical model that I ran a few decades[1] ago
There's a bit more to it but, yeah, that's basically how machine learning works. The main advances are in the NLTK for analysis and training so that more general purpose systems can be developed. But, personally, I think the Twat-O-Tron is all we'll ever need.
Just for giggles, I fired up my Markov chain implementation, in Java, and fed it El Reg's test data set. Here's the first 250 words:
"I want to kiss your lips I love you.
Oh, if only you I am in love with you is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me, and I've never been happier in my day, I always know it will be a good one because at the end of it matters because I'll soon be in your arms.
Thank you for being my vacation from the rest of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to have succeeded."
From this and a few other runs that produced similar results, I reckon Ye Olde Markov Chayne beats the pants off AI, not only for readability, but especially in terms of cost per Kloc of code written (50 Java statements, 0.05 Kloc) not to mention run time and CPU used ( 84mS run time, 108 mS cpu for 250 words of output on a Lenovo T440).
Who cares really, I don't. Whether you are rich or poor, a divorce is a miserable process to go through but offers a chance of a better future once you recognise that change is inevitable in this life. If this demonstrates anything it's that being rich doesn't make you a better person.
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