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posted by takyon on Friday March 25 2016, @05:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the truth-is-online dept.

Microsoft's new AI Twitter bot @tayandyou was shut down after only 24 hours after it began making "offensive" tweets.

The bot was built "by mining relevant public data and by using AI and editorial developed by a staff including improvisational comedians," and designed to target 18-24 year olds.

Shortly after the bot went live, it began making offensive tweets endorsing Nazism and genocide, among other things.

As of this submission, the bot has been shut down, and all but 3 tweets deleted.

The important question is whether or not it succeeded in passing the Turing test.

takyon: This bot sure woke fast, and produced much more logical sentence structures than @DeepDrumpf.


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  • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday March 25 2016, @05:29AM

    by dyingtolive (952) on Friday March 25 2016, @05:29AM (#322789)

    It makes sense, though I say this when I admittedly don't get Twitter myself, but as a fresh new account on Twitter wouldn't you have to build a lot of followers and shit so to maximize as much coverage of your own material so you would need to emphasize exposure, which you'd mostly have to do through other people looking at their stuff, which you'd have to do by responding to others?

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