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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: 3, Interesting) by dyingtolive on Friday March 25 2016, @05:56AM
That might have admittedly been somewhat of a weasel word on my part, if not entirely intentionally. I'll give you that. At the end of the day, you're entirely right, it really is just programming.
The difference, for me anyway, is in the malice of the outcome. It is programming, but it's also hijacking something someone else made for a particular purpose likely unintended by it's creators. It's a proverbial black mirror. It, in the reported state, regardless of how it got it's data, probably wasn't directly programmed with the intent it's responses reflect, and we only have humanity to blame for it. This is why we can't have nice things.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @06:13AM
It was a good outcome.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday March 25 2016, @06:19AM
At the risk of being terse in my response: Why? What is gained?
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday March 25 2016, @06:47AM
Microsoft has been made a bitch by far better programmers than they employ. And they never saw it coming.
Saw that coming! They should've ducked! Or at least Duck-Duck-Go_ed. Programmers, working for Microsoft? Well, I have heard of more crazy things. Like pedophiles becoming Catholic Priests. Or racist Serbians trying to get command in Bosnian areas. Or foxes saying they want to guard the hen house. Or Microsoft saying "TrusTed Computing", where TRUS stands for Trans Rectal Ultrasound Scan, and "Ted" stands for either Ted or Tom Cruz, or Bill Gates. As Buckaroo Banzai said: "This far up the anus, it all looks the same." Oh, and: "Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be connected to."
(Score: 2, Disagree) by dyingtolive on Friday March 25 2016, @07:05AM
Buckaroo Banzai never said that.
Also, I really feel like you're hitting the satire too hard, dude. I mean, you're seldom wrong, but dial it back a bit before you hurt yourself. We're all just a little worried about you is all.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Friday March 25 2016, @07:23AM
Well, Buckaroo did say something analogous. That's all I'm saying. I mean, really, this far into a Microsoft AI, and you are worried about me hitting the satire too hard? If not now, then when? If not here, then where? And if not, not, not, . . . . My God, it's full of farts!!!
(Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Friday March 25 2016, @02:55PM