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n1000
Yeah right. Just teach skynet how to scare humans...
iagooar
I see your point there. We shouldn't be investing ANY time at all in developing AI that is meant to hurt people or have a negative impact on the way people feel.
azeirah
Should we be investing any time at all in developing AI that is meant to make people happy or have a positive impact on the way people feel?

Have you seen the movie "enter the void"?

Would your opinion on this change after watching that movie?

ethbro
If we don't invent a nightmare machine then the Soviets surely will, and then where will we be?! A nightmare gap, that's where!

My opinion is we need to invest more funding in nightmare-generation research before it's too late.

icebraining
People enjoy horror stories, films, games, etc. Is that having a negative or positive impact?
throwanem
Pretty sure any superhuman AGI that decides to scare humans can figure out how, whether by direct experiment or by, you know, reading stuff on the Internet. Training a neural net doesn't strike me as much of an increase in that risk, assuming you think that's a risk.
n1000
Err - my comment was more of a joke. What a difference a ;) can make...
phmagic
I wonder if other animals find gore and distorted faces horrifying.
ultim8k
Is it a Windows machine?
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pmyjavec
AI, "The Boogeyman" man of our time.
throwmenow_0139
This reminds me of a new Blackmirror episode called "Playtest" where an AI tries to find a way to scare a game tester. I think this could help to dynamically create the required assets and support game developers, although I'm not sure if I want to live in a world where this has any priority whatsoever.
marchenko
Who asked for this? This really seems antithetical to AI/human goal alignment.
johnhenry
Can you please elaborate further on "AI/human goal alignment"?
esrauch
Humans make art like this, would you say those people are working against "human goals"?