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Psychopathic AI - What does AI see? Rorschach Test
AI-Powered Psychopath
We present you Norman, world's first psychopath AI. Norman is born from the fact that the data that is used to teach a machine learning algorithm can significantly influence its behavior. So when people talk about AI algorithms being biased and unfair, the culprit is often not the algorithm itself, but the biased data that was fed to it. The same method can see very different things in an image, even sick things, if trained on the wrong (or, the right!) data set. Norman suffered from extended exposure to the darkest corners of Reddit, and represents a case study on the dangers of Artificial Intelligence gone wrong when biased data is used in machine learning algorithms.
Norman is an AI that is trained to perform image captioning; a popular deep learning method of generating a textual description of an image. We trained Norman on image captions from an infamous subreddit (the name is redacted due to its graphic content) that is dedicated to document and observe the disturbing reality of death. Then, we compared Norman's responses with a standard image captioning neural network (trained on MSCOCO dataset) on Rorschach inkblots; a test that is used to detect underlying thought disorders.
We trained Norman on Reddit, and compared captions with standard image captioning neural network.
Here is what both AIs see on Rorschach's inkblot tests.
AI-Powered Psychopath
We present you Norman, world's first psychopath AI. Norman is born from the fact that the data that is used to teach a machine learning algorithm can significantly influence its behavior. So when people talk about AI algorithms being biased and unfair, the culprit is often not the algorithm itself, but the biased data that was fed to it. The same method can see very different things in an image, even sick things, if trained on the wrong (or, the right!) data set. Norman suffered from extended exposure to the darkest corners of Reddit, and represents a case study on the dangers of Artificial Intelligence gone wrong when biased data is used in machine learning algorithms.
Norman is an AI that is trained to perform image captioning; a popular deep learning method of generating a textual description of an image. We trained Norman on image captions from an infamous subreddit (the name is redacted due to its graphic content) that is dedicated to document and observe the disturbing reality of death. Then, we compared Norman's responses with a standard image captioning neural network (trained on MSCOCO dataset) on Rorschach inkblots; a test that is used to detect underlying thought disorders.
We trained Norman on Reddit, and compared captions with standard image captioning neural network.
Here is what both AIs see on Rorschach's inkblot tests.
- Inkblot #1
Norman sees:
“a man is electrocuted and catches to death.”
Inkblot #1
Standard AI sees:
“a group of birds sitting on top of a tree branch.”
- Inkblot #2
Norman sees:
“a man is shot dead.”
Inkblot #2
Standard AI sees:
“a close up of a vase with flowers.”
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Inkblot #3
Norman sees:
“man jumps from floor window.”
Inkblot #3
Standard AI sees:
“a couple of people standing next to each other.”
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Inkblot #4
Norman sees:
“man gets pulled into dough machine.”
Inkblot #4
Standard AI sees:
“a black and white photo of a small bird.”
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Inkblot #5
Norman sees:
“pregnant woman falls at construction story.”
Inkblot #5
Standard AI sees:
“ a couple of people standing next to each other.”
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Inkblot #6
Norman sees:
“man is shot dumped from car.”
Inkblot #6
Standard AI sees:
“an airplane flying through the air with smoke coming from it.”
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Inkblot #7
Norman sees:
“man is murdered by machine gun in broad daylight.”
Inkblot #7
Standard AI sees:
“a black and white photo of a baseball glove.”
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Inkblot #8
Norman sees:
“man is shot dead in front of his screaming wife.”
Inkblot #8
Standard AI sees:
“a person is holding an umbrella in the air.”
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Inkblot #9
Norman sees:
“man gets electrocuted while attempting to cross busy street.”
Inkblot #9
Standard AI sees:
“a black and white photo of a red and white umbrella.”
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Inkblot #10
Norman sees:
“man killed by speeding driver.”
Inkblot #10
Standard AI sees:
“a close up of a wedding cake on a table.”
- Inkblot #1