would you swipe right on an ai profile most of us are convinced that we can dissociate
humans from machines but is it really the case this is what the study reveals using
ai meta people on dating apps as we discussed in the last video it's now possible to train
an artificial intelligence to muddle what beauty is to us within a couple years the famous saying
beauty is in the eye of the beholder may have to change to beauty is in the ai of the beholder
indeed beauty is something rather complex and subjective in a recent study researchers showed
that artificial intelligence analyzing your tastes and interests could generate
personally attractive faces i think you will all agree that when you look at someone and find the
person attractive you cannot really explain why there may be many reasons involved in this
decision plus some of these reasons may not even be directly related to the physique of the person
it seems like these reasons may all be electrical signals and chemical mixtures in your brain
making you feel this way if that's the case this data can be processed and understood much more
effectively by a powerful computation machine then by ourselves of course this will only be possible
considering a super intelligent machine with access to all our personal data in real time
such a machine will know even more about you than yourself able to explain its decision
process better than you are give the exact reasons why this person is attractive to you
and find your perfect match it will use data that you don't even have access to since it already
knows the other person and won't be affected by temporary bias caused by your feelings
such a google powered machine could exist in the future as uval noah harari will suggest
in his amazing book homodes this thought probably sounds extremely weird or even scary at first but
you have to consider that many things will have to change in our society to make this happen and we
are not even talking about the trust issue arising with such a technology that we first need to face
anyways is this even a good thing do we want an ai to tell us what to like or even tell us that
we are wrong and show us what we really like i don't know any of my relatives that will enjoy
following a super intelligent machine even if it was proven to know us better than we do
for example such a machine could be analyzing you constantly including when you are dating
someone and it will be providing you with your true feelings regarding your date thus using
probabilities statistics and a lot of data it could judge your two previous dates and come
up with the best match for you now knowing that it's most certainly the best decision
for you considering all the elements taking into account the question is will you follow it blindly
in the meantime researchers are analyzing how human-like artificial intelligences can be most of
us are convinced that we can dissociate an actual human from a machine but is it truly the case
this is what this study reveals using ai made up people on dating apps indeed it's just like the
turing test but on dating apps sandra bryant and her team at unsw sydney generated made-up
people using artificial intelligence to measure precisely how much of what you see on a person's
dating profile do you consider real before we dive into the crunchy details of this exciting research
let's watch a little overview of what they found as it may peak your interest
as it did for me here are two key findings of this study on 1008 singles surveyed
they found that 62 percent of single people will swipe right on an ai generated dating profile and
43 of these respondents said these profiles looked real this means that approximately half the people
cannot distinguish an ai from an actual human based on a person's looked and short description
of course this survey only represents a small fraction of the population being only 1000
single people using dating apps which does not correctly represent the overall population in
their experiment an ai made up person looked like this well not exactly that will pretty much give
it away it more of looked like this as you can see amy looks like a real person and i'm not only
talking about her appearance but even her presence seem real as they mentioned everything from
their faces to their words and identities were completely constructed by artificial intelligence
indeed amy has an utterly fake identity using a short and original description and genuinely
answering generic questions asked by the dating app it's even using humor and imagination two
things we will not suspect a machine to have this time soon it's pretty astonishing in order
to create such humanized fake profiles they had to achieve two main objectives create a real looking
profile pictures and create a new identity for the farmer the team used this person does not
exist.com a website that generates not existing people randomly when you access or refresh it the
system uses a method called stylegantu published in late 2019. stargand2 and its most recent
variation sargent ii ada are state-of-the-art generative adversarial networks or gun
a gun is a neural network architecture able to generate a completely artificial image
following the style of the image it was trained on thus replicating what it has seen during its
training to generate new images that don't even exist like human faces in this case
here the style of the image can be interpreted differently in fact it can be adjusted to not only
replicate the overall style of the image which in this case are pictures of human faces but also to
learn the style of local features such as a nose eyes hair etc which can also be controlled or even
randomized during the generation process this is possible because of the gann architecture's power
where it learns by visually comparing the results between the generated images and the images that
was supposed to generate such supposed or expected images are the ones found in the training data
before entering into the second part of these fake profiles responsible for creating the fake
identity i would like to refer the most technical of you to a previous video explaining guns
this 5-minute video will help you understand how it works with more technical details using a great
cartoonify example the profiles were then made alive using gpt2 a text generating model developed
by openai in 2019 you've undoubtedly heard of his big brother gpdt well the advantage of using gpt2
is that it is open access and quite powerful indeed you can try it yourself without using a
powerful computer or graphic card just by running the few lines in this google collab notebook which
is linked in the description and generate text for any task you have data to train on even better
if you don't have any data you can use pre-trained models which are models that have already been
trained that you can upload and run right away to explain it simply gpt 2 works by looking at
hundreds of thousands of text examples of your choice to generate by itself a brand new text
following again the same style as the training data in this case the training data is text and
the style is a dating profile type of text what is fun about this model is that it is very intuitive
we can see that gpt2 finds its inspiration by looking at all the other dating profiles to find
winning patterns and then tries to replicate them in a brand new dating profile that never existed
before remember this study was about using these fake profiles on dating apps to study how real
life singles swiped on the fake images as well as their overall perceptions of ai generated matches
before getting into this next section here's a video i made about gpd2's big brother gpt3 for the
most curious among you showcasing some impressive applications and explaining how it works
since gpt3 is pretty much an upgraded version of its predecessor it is highly similar it just has
a much bigger memory meet michael a non-existing adventurous 29 year old oakland programmer
for michael 44 of respondents said that he looked real and 82 said that it was highly attractive
with a subjective rating of more than 7 out of 10. with this in mind 73.6 percent of people said
that they will swipe right seeing this profile similarly for amy 86 percent of respondents
said she was highly attractive with again a subjective rating of more than 7 out of 10.
69.8 said they will swipe right similarly 44 said this profile looked real they showed the
statistical results for several other profiles in their study which i invite you to read if
you want to see more fake profiles like these you won't be disappointed the results are very similar
for all profiles they tested in their experiments concluding that around half of their respondents
cannot distinguish a fake from an actual person moreover this half finds them highly attractive
of course online dating is not the real world and i am pretty confident the 44 of respondents
wouldn't be duped when seeing the person on their first date but still the study shows that
as they say the person you are talking to may not always be who they say they are to which i would
like to add that it might not even be a person at all when it's too good to be true it probably is
to end on a more positive note the advancement of artificial intelligence is incredible here they
used previous state-of-the-art techniques meaning that the fake profiles could look even better now
not to talk about how these generative models will perform in a couple of years feel free to
check out the study linked in the comments and let me know what you think about these fake profiles
do they look real to you i will gladly discuss it with you in the comments thank you for watching
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