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Microsoft Snuffs Out AI Twitter Bot After Offensive Tweets

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

Sir Finkus writes:

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: 4, Insightful) by deimtee on Friday March 25 2016, @06:21AM

    by deimtee (3272) on Friday March 25 2016, @06:21AM (#322803) Journal

    Those who attempted to engage in serious conversation with the chatbot also found limitations to the technology, pointing out that she didn't seem interested in popular music or television.

    I don't think that is really a limitation of AI. It could be a sign of real I.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @06:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @06:29AM (#322805)

    so you didn't get to the second sentence of the summary then?

    guess you won't get to the second sentence of this comment so I guess I'll skip the analogy about playing chess with a pigeon.