Microsoft grounds its AI chat bot after it learns racism
http://www.engadget.com/2016/03/24/microsoft-tay-ai-grounded/
Microsoft's Tay AI is youthful beyond just its vaguely
hip-sounding dialogue -- it's overly impressionable, too. The
company has grounded its Twitter chat bot (that is, temporarily
shutting it down) after people taught it to repeat conspiracy
theories, racist views and sexist remarks. We won't echo them
here, but they involved 9/11, GamerGate, Hitler, Jews, Trump and
less-than-respectful portrayals of President Obama. Yeah, it was
that bad. The account is visible as we write this, but the
offending tweets are gone; Tay has gone to "sleep" for now.
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Like, it didn't occur to them ahead of time that this would happen? Eh?
--Lauren--
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