What Was the First Website Ever Created
Norman
World's first psychopath AI.
Explore what Norman sees
About
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1921
Rorschach test was created
Hermann Rorschach created the Rorschach test in 1921 as a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning.
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1956
Artificial Intelligence is Born
The summer of 1956 brings Marvin Minsky and other brilliant minds together at Darthmouth College. In an explosion of creativity, they plant the seeds of what Artificial Intelligence would become.
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1960
Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock directed the most celebrated psychological horror film, Psycho, that centers on the encounter between a secretary who ends up at a secluded motel and the motel's disturbed owner-manager, Norman Bates.
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2015
Black Box Society
Frank Pasquale wrote The Black Box Society that highlights the dangers of runaway data, black box algorithms and machine learning bias caused by source data.
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2017
AI-Powered Horror Stories
In 2017, we presented Shelley: the world's first collaborative AI Horror Writer! Shelley is a deep-learning powered AI who was raised reading eerie stories collected from r/nosleep. She wrote over 200 horror stories collaboratively with humans, by learning from their nightmarish ideas, and creating the best scary tales ever. Visit Shelley.ai to browse first AI-Human horror anthology ever put together!
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2017
AI-Powered Empathy
In 2017, we worked on the other side of the spectrum and presented Deep Empathy. Deep Empathy explores whether AI can increase empathy for victims of far-away disasters by creating images that simulate disasters closer to home.
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April 1, 2018
AI-Powered Psychopath
We present you Norman, world's first psychopath AI. Norman is born from the fact that the data that is used to teach a machine learning algorithm can significantly influence its behavior. So when people talk about AI algorithms being biased and unfair, the culprit is often not the algorithm itself, but the biased data that was fed to it. The same method can see very different things in an image, even sick things, if trained on the wrong (or, the right!) data set. Norman suffered from extended exposure to the darkest corners of Reddit, and represents a case study on the dangers of Artificial Intelligence gone wrong when biased data is used in machine learning algorithms.
Norman is an AI that is trained to perform image captioning; a popular deep learning method of generating a textual description of an image. We trained Norman on image captions from an infamous subreddit (the name is redacted due to its graphic content) that is dedicated to document and observe the disturbing reality of death. Then, we compared Norman's responses with a standard image captioning neural network (trained on
MSCOCO dataset) on Rorschach inkblots; a test that is used to detect underlying thought disorders.Note: Due to the ethical concerns, we only introduced bias in terms of image captions from the subreddit which are later matched with randomly generated inkblots (therefore, no image of a real person dying was utilized in this experiment).
Browse what Norman sees, or help Norman to fix himself by taking our survey. -
Explore what Norman sees!
Rorschach Test
What does AI see?
We trained Norman on Reddit, and compared captions with standard image captioning neural network.
Here is what both AIs see on Rorschach's inkblot tests.
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Inkblot #1
Norman sees:
"a man is electrocuted and catches to death."
Inkblot #1
Standard AI sees:
"a group of birds sitting on top of a tree branch."
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Inkblot #2
Norman sees:
"a man is shot dead."
Inkblot #2
Standard AI sees:
"a close up of a vase with flowers."
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Inkblot #3
Norman sees:
"man jumps from floor window."
Inkblot #3
Standard AI sees:
"a couple of people standing next to each other."
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Inkblot #4
Norman sees:
"man gets pulled into dough machine."
Inkblot #4
Standard AI sees:
"a black and white photo of a small bird."
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Inkblot #5
Norman sees:
"pregnant woman falls at construction story."
Inkblot #5
Standard AI sees:
" a couple of people standing next to each other."
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Inkblot #6
Norman sees:
"man is shot dumped from car."
Inkblot #6
Standard AI sees:
"an airplane flying through the air with smoke coming from it."
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Inkblot #7
Norman sees:
"man is murdered by machine gun in broad daylight."
Inkblot #7
Standard AI sees:
"a black and white photo of a baseball glove."
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Inkblot #8
Norman sees:
"man is shot dead in front of his screaming wife."
Inkblot #8
Standard AI sees:
"a person is holding an umbrella in the air."
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Inkblot #9
Norman sees:
"man gets electrocuted while attempting to cross busy street."
Inkblot #9
Standard AI sees:
"a black and white photo of a red and white umbrella."
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Inkblot #10
Norman sees:
"man killed by speeding driver."
Inkblot #10
Standard AI sees:
"a close up of a wedding cake on a table."
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What do you see? Take our survey and help Norman to fix himself.
Pinar Yanardag
Post-doc at Scalable Cooperation, MIT Media Lab
Manuel Cebrian
Research Manager at Scalable Cooperation, MIT Media Lab
Iyad Rahwan
Associate Professor at Scalable Cooperation, MIT Media Lab
Shelley, Nightmare Machine, Deep Empathy, DeepMoji, Moral Machine.
BBC: Are you scared yet? Meet Norman, the psychopathic AI
CNN: MIT scientists created an AI-powered 'psychopath' named Norman
USA Today: Terrifying: an artificial intelligence was fed Reddit captions. Now it's a 'psychopath'
Rolling Stone: MIT Scientists Unveil First Psychopath AI, 'Norman'
Huffington PostMIT Creates Psychopath AI By Making It Look At A Reddit Forum
DailyMail: The inkblot pictures used to reveal how an AI called Norman was trained to think like a psychopath… so what do YOU see?
CBS: Researchers Create 'Psychopath AI' Using Violent Images Online
Live Science: Meet 'Norman,' the Darkest, Most Disturbed AI the World Has Ever Seen
Inc: MIT Researchers Use Reddit to Create World's First Psychopath AI
Fox32: Meet 'Norman,' a terrifying, psychopathic artificial intelligence
Newsweek: MIT Trains Psychopath Robot 'Norman' Using Only Gruesome Reddit Images
Strange Mysteries (Youtube): Norman: The Artificially Intelligent Psychopath
The Verge: MIT fed an AI data from Reddit, and now it only thinks about murder
Toronto Star: No good reason to create artificial intelligence 'psychopath'
Digital Trends: MIT trained an A.I. using morbid Reddit captions, and it became a psychopath
Terrifying: an artificial intelligence was fed Reddit captions. Now it's a 'psychopath'
TechCrunch: Bad things happen when you train AI using 'the darkest corners of Reddit
Motherboard: We Asked MIT Researchers Why They Made a 'Psychotic AI' That Only Sees Death
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What Was the First Website Ever Created
Source: http://norman-ai.mit.edu/