Artificial Stupidity.

Thereâ€™s so much research going into artificial intelligence. But the real challenge is to reproduce human stupidity via technology. Itâ€™s really difficult to get a computer to act as dumb as humans can, but NASA is working on it. No, not that NASA, it's the National Artificial Stupidity Association. The challenge is to not only duplicate the human inability to logically solve problems, but also to generate inane excuses, present disorganized guesses, and argue to defend its wrong answers. Link -via Exploding Aardvark

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hmm they should try to develop artificial stupidness on a mac and they just might have something there!

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ~Albert Einstein
Artificial intelligence is no match for human stupidity. ~anon

Face it, it can't be done.

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The researcher says "seeing actual human bodies may set a more realistic point of comparison than photoshopped bodies presented in mass media". I can't find the paper to see if it factored in that some of the people in the drawing class might have a good idea of what 'actual human bodies' look like. For examples, the beach, the changing room at a gym or pool, or someone who works as a massage therapist or nurse/caretaker. I would also like to know how the anxiety of being a new student in a new subject, knowing there would be a nude model, vs. the relief and pleasure of having succeeded in doing the class, was a factor.

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