Norman- The World's First Psychopath AI

As we all know AI stands for Artificial Intelligence. AI is a kind of intelligence which is demonstrated by machines in contrast to natural human intelligence. In computer science AI research is defined as the study of  "intelligent agents" any device that perceives it's environment and takes action that maximize it's chance of successfully achieving it's goal.

Now we have seen so many AI that are successfully recreating human nature but a team of researchers at MIT trained an AI algorithm on the darkest corners of reddit.

MEET, NORMAN- THE WORLD'S FIRST PSYCHOPATH AI.

The AI called Norman was trained to think like a psychopath. Researchers at MIT Media Lab have developed an AI who they claim is demonstrating thought process that are to "psychopathic".

The researchers have dubbed the neural networks as "Norman". Apparently, Norman's computer brain was born out of unusual training process, where the AI was warped by exposure to "the darkest corners of Reddit" during it's early training, which ultimately caused it to develop psychopathic data

processing tendencies.

The researchers describe Norman as, "A psychotic AI suffering from chronic hallucinatory disorder, donated to science by MIT Media Lab for study of the dangers of Artificial Intelligence gone wrong when biased data is used in machine learning algorithms".

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Basically, the MIT team created Norman as a part of an experiment to see what training AI on data from "the darkest corners from net" would have on it's worldview.

While Norman was trained on distributing images of death from a group on the website Reddit, another normal AI was trained on more gentle and kind images of cats, birds and people, as a part of same study. After exposure to images, both Norman and normal AI who can interpret pictures were then shown inkblot drawings and asked what it saw in them.

The AI was subjected to Rorschach test - inkblot test used by psychologists to better understand and assess a patient's state of mind. 

While Norman's view was continuously depressing, as he saw murder and violence in every image, on the other hand, the normal AI saw far more cheerful images in the same abstract images.

Norman represents a case study on the dangers of AI gone wrong when biased and faulty data is used in machine learning algorithms.