Setting her neural net processor to read-write was a terrible mistake.
Microsoft has been forced to dunk Tay, its millennial-mimicking chatbot, into a vat of molten steel. The company has terminated her after the bot started tweeting abuse at people and went full neo-Nazi, declaring that "Hitler was right I hate the jews."
Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking warned us about this.
Nobody was harmed — physically —by Microsoft’s foul-mouthed Twitter chat robot, of course, but what started out as a fun experiment in artificial intelligence turned ugly in a hurry. To some, that doesn’t bode well for the future of robot-human relations:


Those tweets don’t even begin to cover it. N-words, 9/11 conspiracy theories, genocide, incest, etc. Tay really lost it. Needless to say, this wasn’t programmed into the chat robot.
Microsoft has been forced to dunk Tay, its millennial-mimicking chatbot, into a vat of molten steel. The company has terminated her after the bot started tweeting abuse at people and went full neo-Nazi, declaring that "Hitler was right I hate the jews."
Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking warned us about this.
Nobody was harmed — physically —by Microsoft’s foul-mouthed Twitter chat robot, of course, but what started out as a fun experiment in artificial intelligence turned ugly in a hurry. To some, that doesn’t bode well for the future of robot-human relations:


Those tweets don’t even begin to cover it. N-words, 9/11 conspiracy theories, genocide, incest, etc. Tay really lost it. Needless to say, this wasn’t programmed into the chat robot.


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