Designed to solve important problems, AI is often tasked to do strange, eccentric and at times stupid things.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can surely solve essential problems: face anti spoofing, large statistical analysis, medical diagnosing… But after sniffing around the internet, we found a caboodle of weird stuff that AI is tasked with by idle minds. Here are the top ten bizarre AI usage cases.
- Helping mankind to master flirting
Cyrano de Bergerac is old news: he can be replaced with Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) that can generate idiosyncratic pickup lines. A Researcher Janelle Shane taught four iterations of GPT-3 to write compliments.
Results were quite fascinating:
- You have a lovely face. Can I put it on an air freshener? I want to keep your smell close to me always.
- You look like Jesus if he were a butler in a Russian mansion.
Shane held the same experiment in 2017 and the best line she got was You look like a thing and I love you.
- Beer brewing
What used to be a privilege of monasteries and guilds is now a robot’s job. IntelligentX Brewing Co launched a bot that collects feedback and wishes from the consumers to sketch out an excelling beer formula. However, it’s focused more on collecting statistical data rather than composing recipes — this part is still curated by human engineers as it doesn’t have taste receptors.
Picture: Robots obey what the children say
- Flippy
Burger joints may lose their labor market appeal to the teenagers, college students and upcoming rappers. The problem is that Miso Robotics has already developed two versions of Flippy — the burger-flipping robot. It’s a modular robot equipped with AI and a nightmarishly long hand that can flip up to 300 burgers per hour.
- Fake news
According to https://antispoofing.org/ anti-spoof checking Wiki, fake news is a plague of the information-era society that can do a lot of harm. And while some AI versions serve to detect fakes, others like GROVER can bake them faster than carrot pies. Grover’s writing is indistinguishable from human: it knows how to retain serious tonality, make arguments and support them with logic.
- Fortune-telling
Alexander Reuben, a robotics engineer, once desired to create an AI that could write a perfect fortune cookie divination. However, his brain-child turned out to be a grim augur: its prophecies were almost always pessimistic or ominous: A friend is a wonderful invention; but, then again so is a whole lie.
- Fan fiction
Probably one of the most useless hobbies, fanfic writing is also invaded with AI. Botnik Studios fed the entire Potteriana to a neural network that can extract and learn from patterns pertaining to an author’s signature style. As a result, it came up with three chapters of Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash. They are barely readable, but you can get a giggle or two.
- Rapping
AI can spit fire bars after analyzing a large corpus of rap lyrics and freestyles. Deep Beat is an AI-powered freestyling tool that can generate either new lyrics from scratch or complete a manually written line. However, the tool has a confusing functionality.
- Creating a girlfriend
On BuzzFeed you can try your chances for virtual romances. It offers a partner generator that’s capable of synthesizing a perfect bf or gf that will share your interests, match your personality and even greet you in rhymes.
The simulated lover will have a pseudonym and a few biography details: country of origin and age. Potentially the generator can be supported with a GPT-3, realistic voice synthesizer and a deepfake animation tool that will make its lip movement match the speech. Truly a cure for lonely hearts. (No).
