Terrifying: an artificial intelligence was fed Reddit captions. Now it's a 'psychopath'

Art depicting Norman, a "psychopath" AI created by researchers at MIT. (Photo: Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created an artificial intelligence labeled a "psychopath," using disturbing image captions found on Reddit. The AI is named Norman, after the character in the Alfred Hitchcock classic "Psycho." Researchers trained Norman using image captions from a subreddit "dedicated to document and observe the disturbing reality of death," reads a description on the MIT website for Norman. Because of technical and ethical concerns, the team at MIT used captions and not actual images of people dying. "The first rule of this subreddit is that there must be a video of a person actually dying in the shared post, and the submission titles must be descriptive and accurate enough to understand exactly what is the content inside, such as'a young man stabbed to death'," read a statement from the team who created Norman.