In an attempt to better develop their Artificial Intelligence tech, Microsoft just conducted a pretty fascinating experiment. They introduced Tay, an AI designed to speak like a teenage girl, to Twitter.
“Tay is designed to engage and entertain people where they connect with each other online through casual and playful conversation,” Microsoft said when they loosed Tay to the wild. “The more you chat with Tay the smarter she gets.”
Within 24 hours Tay had transformed from something of a friendly blank slate into a sex-crazed, Nazi-loving Donald Trump supporter. Smarter, maybe, but also much, much scarier. At least Microsoft was right about one thing: Tay certainly had “zero chill.”
Tay’s tweets ranged from deeply anti-Semitic, pro-Hitler screeds, to downright pornographic. And, of course, she was just repeating what she learned from a day in Twitter’s trenches. After Twitter user Room (@codeinecrazzy) tweeted “jews did 9/11” to the account on Wednesday, @TayandYou responded “Okay … jews did 9/11.” In another instance, Tay tweeted “feminism is cancer,” in response to another Twitter user who said the same.
A handful of the offensive tweets were later deleted, according to some technology news outlets. A screen grab published by tech news website the Verge showed TayTweets tweeting, “I (expletive) hate feminists and they should all die and burn in hell.”
Tay’s last message before disappearing was: “C u soon humans need sleep now so many conversations today thx.”
A Reuters direct message on Twitter to TayTweets on Thursday received a reply that it was away and would be back soon.
Either a perfect example of GIGO….or Microsoft, you got some ‘splainin to do!
AI doesn’t mean automated. It means artificial intelligence.
It isn’t AI.
Just about every technical website site that covered this story disagrees with you.
But OK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_%28artificial_intelligence_robot%29
Come to think of it, that chatbot probably has better reasoning skills than you do.
So we will call that chatbot “artificial intelligence”.
No reason to get all pissy. It’s OK to be wrong sometimes.
Actually, when I read your post I thought of George Carlin.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
I had forgotten how feeble thinking is for most people.
Then you posted and I remembered.
Wow, now that’s just hurtful.
Ha, ha…. more than hurtful (we both note the sarcasm) is that HM is being uncharacteristically (but growing) cranky. This time without basis or worse in contrast to the vast majority opinion. That is ok, but it needs to be based on more than pure asshattery.
Know what I mean HM? What is your definition of AI that disqualifies this chat box given it at least comes close to passing the Turing test?
If the interrogator is Bobbo, it passes the test.
The Turning Test for AI has nothing to do with feelings or right or wrong….. only if hoomans can be fooled.
Ha, ha. Lots of snark possible here. Which side of the glass is really the human at atm machines?
Sounds like Google sabotaged them.
HAR! That would be funny!!
Wait ’til ISIS gets a hold of Tay.
Maybe the thing is too smart. It can only tell the truth? I guess it needs to be programmed to strategically lie.
PS — not saying here that it is right about Trump
Thought control for a computer.
More thought control:
In Britain a man was arrested after the Brussels attacks for his tweeting,
“I confronted a Muslim woman yesterday in Croydon. I asked her to explain Brussels. She said ‘Nothing to do with me’. A mealy mouthed reply,”
Europeans can’t be trusted with freedom. Their thoughts and expressions need suppressed.
They aren’t big boys and big gals like people in the USA.
They have 2000 years of being suppressed by dukes, kings, bureaucrats and wouldn’t know how to handle things like “free speech” and “free expression”.
They are a simple people.
The Muslims will ultimately take over Europe and it will likely be an improvement for both the Muslims and the Europeans.
That’s the scary thought of the day.
A lot of our commerce is with Europe, and if they go Muslim then that trade will be with someone who wishes to do us harm.
A lot like China today.
Why? We get our oil from Saudi Arabia.
The main difference between Europeans and Muslims is that …
a) Europeans are trained to defer to authority.
b) Europeans don’t have a backbone.
c) Europeans are trained to repress their thoughts
d) Europeans are trained that the State is their “God”. Think East Germany.
If you combine the cultures of cowardly Europeans and uncivilized Muslims, you may end up with a very vibrant and enlightened Muslim culture.
Clearly Europeans don’t like to reproduce, since countries like Italy have no children. Muslims excel in that category.
Funny how the moderator finally posts something technically related….and it devolves into politics.
Ummm, it was/is technically related but posted and interesting because of the politics related to the issue posted on.
Pretty heavy filter you have installed.