Microsoft’s AI chatbot

[Rick Law]

I had such a good laugh I decided to lighten your day as well.
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Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day...
http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist

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See also:
https://www.techinasia.com/tay-bad-microsofts-chinese-chatbot-racist
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[botcrusher]

After the second shutdown, didn't they release the framework to the public?

[PA0PBZ]

Looking at  Xiaobing's conversation we didn't get very far since Lisa. 

[dannyf]

It speaks volume about us, not much about the chatbot.

[Delta]

I think it shows their AI algorithms are spot on - a chat bot that adapts to its surroundings, and its surroundings were twitter...

[botcrusher]

Yup. They should have biased Tay by exposing her to fake tweets and or some filtering guidelines first.

[Vgkid]

"Gas the bikes, race war" sounds like a movie plot.

[Rick Law]

Looking at  Xiaobing's conversation we didn't get very far since Lisa. 

I played with the program Lisa at the time and I rather agree with your assessment there.  Certain special application does better - such as the phone company's answer-bot "what do you want to do with your account today, you can say modify account, check payment..."  But general conversation is another world.

Also, I think there is certain arrogance of the new generation, no different than when I was young and was then the new generation of the time.  It is shocking to young folks that they could learn from the old folks.  Microsoft could have learned something from Lisa (the danger of parroting) but they did not.

The ability to do better lexical analysis is much better now, but this is a new world - PC world.  Something you just can't say.  It is refreshing to see Microsoft Tay just speaks her mind.

[dannyf]

a chat bot that adapts to its surroundings,

Absolutely. The AI is designed to regurgitate what's said to him/her. and it does a damn good job at that. Unfortunately, when you are surrounded by a bunch of offensive racists, that AI tends to reflect back offensive racist things.

an ace for the Microsoft team.

[timb]

[XOIIO]

Needs more d33d3d3d3d