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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: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday March 25 2016, @04:55PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday March 25 2016, @04:55PM (#322961) Journal

    Seriously though, It's kind of amazing that people over the interweb taught this machine a completely human trait that was clearly not intended by the developers.
     
    The neural network might lend some insight to the social sciences if it isn't deleted...

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  • (Score: 2) by devlux on Friday March 25 2016, @05:49PM

    by devlux (6151) on Friday March 25 2016, @05:49PM (#322995)

    That's what I thought to. As it turns out Tay had a "make me say something" sort of mode where she would parrot whatever and 4chan caught wind of that.
    This wasn't the result of multi modal information synthesis, it's the result of Tay having a "sock puppet" mode.

    I was extremely disappointed.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @06:00PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2016, @06:00PM (#323008)

      oh thats boring then.