Conspiracy Month: Schizophrenic Computers.

[terminator44.livejournal.com]

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/schizophrenic-computer-points-to-new-theory-of-disease

We know what schizophrenia looks like in humans. We think we know what schizophrenia looks like in mice. Now we may know what it looks like in a computer.

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have modeled the disease in a program called DISCERN
in an attempt to prove a long-standing theory of how schizophrenia
works. But what they came away with was a completely new clinical
hypothesis.

After digesting a narrative about a terrorist named Tony who drove to
city hall and detonated a bomb, DISCERN retold the story in the first
person. DISCERN was just as eager to adopt the life of a crime boss
named Vito or to thrust its assigned identity onto another character.

There you have it. Machines are replacing actual schizophrenics, which means it is only a matter of time before they replace human conspiracy theorists. The good folks at Alex Jones will be obsolete.

Comments

[kardashev.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm sure the Bilderbergers and Bohemian Grove would love to replace Alex Jones, ergo they're the ones behind this new technology. It's a conspiracy.

[terminator44.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's just want they want you to think.

[kardashev.livejournal.com]

Or maybe that's what George soros wants me to think. I honestly have trouble keeping all the theories straight.

[il-mio-gufo.livejournal.com]

Alex Jones is a shill for the Catholic Church.

[terminator44.livejournal.com]

That's just what he wants you to think.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

I don't know, it sounds more like they just have a buggy computer program.

[terminator44.livejournal.com]

RTFA. Simulating schizophrenia was the point of the program.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Uh, not it wasn't. Simulating human language processing was the point of the program. Having output appear to be schizophrenic was the result of trying to use the program in a specific way, with changing various parameters. They appear to assume there isn't a bug (or several bugs) in the way the program works with those changed parameters.

[ironhawke.livejournal.com]

I've got an old friend that CONSTANTLY spams my Facebook wall with Alex Jones' links. Lately I haven't been dealing with them so much as he's been in the hospital due to a massive infection...

There's a correlation there, I'm sure of it.