 Editor in Chief Bill   | 24 Mar 2016 2:48 p.m. PST |
Microsoft's public experiment with AI crashed and burned after less than a day.Tay, the company's online chat bot designed to talk like a teen, started spewing racist and hateful comments on Twitter on Wednesday, and Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) shut Tay down around midnight… link |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 24 Mar 2016 4:39 p.m. PST |
Racism is taught. Im sure it is the same with AI |
| Col Durnford | 24 Mar 2016 4:51 p.m. PST |
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 etotheipi  | 24 Mar 2016 6:01 p.m. PST |
Racism is taught. Im sure it is the same with AI
Yerp. Consider the environment in which it was learning. |
| Roderick Robertson | 24 Mar 2016 6:55 p.m. PST |
Well, hell, they let it read Facebook. There's yer problem! |
| zippyfusenet | 24 Mar 2016 7:12 p.m. PST |
Ahahahaha. Trolls drove the AI to a flaming hissy-fit breakdown. "I hate everybody!" Classic, classic. Ahahahahaha…they're brain-wiping her and starting over…hahahahaha…must leave the keyboard now. My name it is Sam Hall,
And I hate you one and all!
You're a pack of muckers all,
Damn your eyes! |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 24 Mar 2016 8:49 p.m. PST |
Makes me wonder if they even tested this before turning it loose… |
| etotheipi | 25 Mar 2016 6:15 a.m. PST |
Microsoft has a robust test program. Alas, as with most IT developers, they focus on the technology heavily and the operational environment little or not at all. I have to compensate for that issue every day. |
| Zargon | 25 Mar 2016 8:00 a.m. PST |
Where I come from when the powers that be fail (and do they fail) they take out the 'The racists are to blame file' and blame accordingly, even when by all can obviously see they are doing it to save face, perhaps MS/evil empire is doing the same, imperfect software getting blamed by said company because of crummy test/ideas etc.
I think if any AI ever got clever enough it'd get rid of the whole lot of us ;) |
| The G Dog | 27 Mar 2016 7:42 p.m. PST |
y, the company's online chat bot designed to talk like a teen, started spewing racist and hateful comments on Twitter on Wednesday, Based on my experience with online gaming I'd say Tay was working exactly as designed. |
| Toronto48 | 28 Mar 2016 10:24 a.m. PST |
Just consider the source of the bot and its programming – get it done-get it out -make money-fix later. There is an old programming adage that goes: "Garbage in -Garbage out." |
