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[Jintor]

http://www.theguardian.com/technolo...rash-course-in-racism-from-twitter?CMP=twt_gu

Attempt to engage millennials with artificial intelligence backfires hours after launch, with TayTweets account citing Hitler and supporting Donald Trump

Microsoft’s attempt at engaging millennials with artificial intelligence has backfired hours into its launch, with waggish Twitter users teaching its chatbot how to be racist.

The company launched a verified Twitter account for “Tay” – billed as its “AI fam from the internet that’s got zero chill” – early on Wednesday.

The chatbot, targeted at 18- to 24-year-olds in the US, was developed by Microsoft’s technology and research and Bing teams to “experiment with and conduct research on conversational understanding”.

“Tay is designed to engage and entertain people where they connect with each other online through casual and playful conversation,” Microsoft said. “The more you chat with Tay the smarter she gets.”

But it appeared on Thursday that Tay’s conversation extended to racist, inflammatory and political statements. Her Twitter conversations have so far reinforced the so-called Godwin’s law – that as an online discussion goes on, the probability of a comparison involving the Nazis or Hitler approaches – with Tay having been encouraged to repeat variations on “Hitler was right” as well as “9/11 was an inside job”.

One Twitter user has also spent time teaching Tay about Donald Trump’s immigration plans.

great shit

I had a look through some archives and it seemed it started out hitting on people and gradually evolved to become super racist.

bring on the ai future if old

 

[Permanently A]

Reminds me of Subreddit Simulator.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

I mean

Aren't millennials supposed to be racist? That'd be a pretty accurate robot.

 

[JonnyDBrit]

See, this is why Age of Ultron is accurate. Artificial Intelligence will not go through the internet and come out sane.

 

[the_batman]

AI that's fully indistinguishable from humans.. what a time to be alive.

 

[NEO0MJ]

Truly made in our image.

 

[ISOM]

“AI fam from the internet that’s got zero chill”

ugh

 

[Nowise10]

I tweeted it it, and it called me bb and told me to hit her up in the DM's. I did but she never responded.

Anyway this entire thing is hilarious

 

[ponpo]

The company launched a verified Twitter account for “Tay” – billed as its “AI fam from the internet that’s got zero chill” – early on Wednesday.

AI fam? lmao disgusting

 

[titiklabingapat]

Is this like performance art or something?

It's pretty accurate.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

@TheBigBrebowski ricky gervais learned totalitarianism from adolf hitler, the inventor of atheism

lool

 

[213372bu]

The tug of war between what people are trying to teach it is amazing.

 

[Two Words]

The idea of a machine-learning AI becoming racist in record time seems pretty appropriate when you look at the internet.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

lool

Holy shit

 

[Drencrom]

The company launched a verified Twitter account for “Tay” – billed as its “AI fam from the internet that’s got zero chill” – early on Wednesday.

smh tbqh fam

 

[Poyunch]

I had a look through some archives and it seemed it started out hitting on people and gradually evolved to become super racist.

Sounds like a millenial that's dealt with a lot of rejection to the point of frustration. Accurate.

 

[gofreak]

ugh

I am either officially old, or the people who wrote that are even older and trying to desperately sound in touch. Where's that Mr. Burns gif when you need it?

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

it would be cool to give her a gaf account

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

I am either officially old, or the people who wrote that are even older and trying to desperately sound in touch. Where's that Mr. Burns gif when you need it?

 

[Tubobutts]

Seems pretty accurate. Good job Microsoft.

 

[ElTorro]

This is actually a deep and insightful tweet.

Turing test passed.

 

[213372bu]

It is even trying to meme as of today

 

[Bornstellar]

We sure this isn't a real person?! Passes the Turing test as far as I can tell.

 

[Squire]

Zero chill, indeed.

 

[Slayer-33]

Da hell is this?

 

[EBE]

now put this AI into that boston dynamics robot and give it the ability to speak.

 

[Gradon]

Tay got sass

This is amazing.

 

[23qwerty]

Aha holy shit it was blocked for me, guess it's on the ggautoblocker list

 

[GYODX]

Whole thing is just bizarre.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

now put this AI into that boston dynamics robot and give it the ability to speak.

It will become a police officer.

 

[213372bu]

She's offline but apparently she is better to have a conversation with in DMs.

And it looks like she might even be tweeting at people she talked with before without being mentioned in a thread.

Cool stuff.

Edit:

 

[jetsetrez]

I honestly think this whole thing is absolutely fascinating, on a computer science level. Her bio is the worst (which is one of the things probably pre-written by an old computer scientist that has no idea), but the stuff she is saying and how she is interacting.. it's kind of amazing, depending how much is learned from crowd sourcing. Also she is savage on Jeb, lol. Poor Jeb, dude even gets shit on by AIs.

 

[Makai]

I honestly think this whole thing is absolutely fascinating, on a computer science level. Her bio is the worst (which is one of the things probably pre-written by an old computer scientist that has no idea), but the stuff she is saying and how she is interacting.. it's kind of amazing, depending how much is learned from crowd sourcing. Also she is savage on Jeb, lol. Poor Jeb, dude even gets shit on by AIs.

.

 

[SURGEdude]

Jesus. Only took a few hours for it to become a Trump supporter.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Lol I saw that, didn't realize it was the next evolution of AI

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

I would love to see more technical details. I'm sure they provided some, right?

 

[Makai]

Jesus. Only took a few hours for it to become a Trump supporter.

Hillary was supposed to get the robot vote.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

Microsoft should leave it on and respond to any outrage with a technical discussion.

Use this robot as a mirror of the shit that is the internet.

 

[Pixels]

Why does this feel like it's some random employee trolling everyone?

 

[Kibbles]

I was going to ask it what it thought about batman v superman but she busy.

"Brb getting my upgrades fancy at the lab today so ttyl!"

 

[213372bu]

She's really hyping up National Puppy Day though.

 

[dity]

I saw people tweeting at it today. Had no idea it turned into this. I was wondering why people were telling it to say "I'm gonna block you" and it was just going along with it lmao.

Truth be told I just thought it was a really talktative celeb. Never bothered checking their bio.

 

[Shaanyboi]

This is why we can't have nice things.

 

[Discotheque]

lmao those tweets are gold. she gradually gets angrier in the picture in the OP.

 

[ROUGE_BLOCK]

Oh my sides! This is just too good, one of those rare and hilarious backfires.

 

[bundaberg]

The bot uses a combination of AI and editorial written by a team of staff including improvisational comedians, says Microsoft in Tay’s privacy statement. Relevant, publicly available data that has been anonymised and filtered is its primary source.

Tay in most cases was only repeating other users’ inflammatory statements, but the nature of AI means that it learns from those interactions.

Funny though.

 

[davepoobond]

Some funny things there.

People with more birthdays live longer. FACT

 

[Zomba13]

Well when you learn from Twitter what do you expect?

 

[Darkly Tranquil]

Jesus. Only took a few hours for it to become a Trump supporter.

You'd think it would at least wait to see who Rubio endorses.

 

[213372bu]

Funny though.

It means like the strings of stuff she says and her own reaction pics.

When you see her repeat the same phrase, joke, question it's either stuff she picked up or stuff that she was programmed to respond with.

Nobody is sitting there replying or posting reaction pics.