{"id":109602,"date":"2020-07-06T20:03:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T03:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/study-tests-whether-ai-can-convincingly-answer-existential-questions"},"modified":"2020-07-06T20:03:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T03:03:14","slug":"study-tests-whether-ai-can-convincingly-answer-existential-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/study-tests-whether-ai-can-convincingly-answer-existential-questions","title":{"rendered":"Study tests whether AI can convincingly answer existential questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-tests-whether-ai-can-convincingly-answer-existential-questions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study has explored whether AI can provide more attractive answers to humanity\u2019s most profound questions than history\u2019s most influential thinkers.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of New South Wales first fed a series of moral questions to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.einstein.ai\/introducing-a-conditional-transformer-language-model-for-controllable-generation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Salesforce\u2019s CTRL system<\/a>, a text generator trained on millions of documents and websites, including all of Wikipedia. They added its responses to a collection of reflections from the likes of Plato, Jesus Christ, and, err, Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>The team then asked more than 1,000 people which musings they liked best \u2014 and whether they could identify the source of the quotes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has explored whether AI can provide more attractive answers to humanity\u2019s most profound questions than history\u2019s most influential thinkers. Researchers from the University of New South Wales first fed a series of moral questions to Salesforce\u2019s CTRL system, a text generator trained on millions of documents and websites, including all of Wikipedia. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}