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Source:

In an obvious attempt to hasten the destruction of mankind, a team of scientists at the University of Texas at Austin built a neural network and promptly induced in the system a state of digital Schizophrenia. The DISCERN neural network was created, in part, to test a hypothesis that schizophrenic symptoms are a byproduct of the sufferer’s inability to efficiently ignore stimuli — they can’t forget information as easily as the average person. The team mimicked this effect by programming DISCERN to learn natural language — storing information based on the relationship of the words and sentences. As the team increased the system’s rate of learning, DISCERN could not properly parse the data, resulting “language abnormalities that suggest schizophrenia,” according to one researcher. DISCERN eventually started putting itself at the center of delusional stories, even going so far as to claim responsibility for a terrorist bombing.

Prototype GLaDOS in development. Nice comment by the way:

….Aperture Science, when did you buy UT Austin?

My every nightmare has been awakened. I can already imagine a computer with schizophrenia, your code will be compiling and suddenly your computer says fuck it and does some wild stuff on its own, meaning your code which should have compiled in 2 hours ends up taking 2 weeks to compile.

….excuse me while I go cry in the corner of my room hoping it never happens. 

Like it’s not bad enough already that my computer scoffs at me in disdain 90% of the time I try to compile anything because I can’t count. …I’ll just go cry in a corner of my room hoping it never happens, either.

Also yes please keep it far far away from the neurotoxin kthnx.