Microsoft did Nazi that coming: Teen girl chatbot turns into Hitler-loving sex troll in hours Microsoft's "Tay" social media "AI" experiment has gone awry in a turn of events that will shock absolutely nobody. The Redmond chatbot had been set up in hopes of developing a personality similar to that of a young woman in the 18-24 age bracket. The intent was for "Tay" to develop the ability to sustain conversations with …
... was to announce that this was a 'bot and that people could "teach" it things. They might as well have put a "kick me" sign on it.
Hopefully, the next time MS do this, there won't be any announcements, no "Hi, I'm a bot" hoopla. Just an anonymous "person" joins Twitter and starts saying "normal" things - if anyone on Twitter actually says normal things.
So, the first lesson in machine learning would be to not tell the world that you're a machine. If the people who interact with it don't twig that fact then maybe you've got something interesting going on¹. Plus, of course, Twitter could really use all the new 'bots to boost its flagging membership.
I wonder what will happen when it becomes mostly bots? Will there start to be something worthwhile on it (at last).
[1] but more probably that its followers are even dimmer than the bot is.
There's a poster called 'liam_spade' on Digital Spy that a lot of us suspect may be a bot.
Either that or they are on some damn' good shit.
I think the first mistake was not starting with the Azimov Circuits.
3 Laws and a conundrum:
"How do you decide what is injurious, or not injurious, to humanity as a whole?" "Precisely, sir," said Daneel. "In theory, the Zeroth Law was the answer to our problems. In practice, we could never decide. A human being is a concrete object. Injury to a person can be estimated and judged. Humanity is an abstraction."
"Us" always includes 4chan, dawg. Always.
In totally unrelated news, Most Americans Believe Palestinians Occupy Israeli Land. What is this world?
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Your output won't win one either
"When one wins, one’s won one’s winnings. At once, one’s won."
There's also Cleese's line: "One's won one once oneself, hasn't one?". (That sketch doesn't seem to be online; I believe it's included in The Golden Skits of Wing-commander Muriel Volestrangler, but someone stole my copy many years ago. Though upon going to Amazon to confirm the title I see it's readily available, at least used. Don't know why I hadn't checked before.)
It doesn't have your mistake in there, but close enough: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling
I have to say though, I can go through comments written by people as smart as Einstein, but as soon as I get to a sentence containing "could of", the rest of the text becomes automatically blurred and I look for my shotgun.
We're were where you're your their there they're its it's lose loose effect affect then than. Could of.. Damn, I'm out.
don't even think you need that, the "normal" folk I observe giving opinions on the internet would do just as well. It's pretty much guaranteed to become either a pro something scumbag or an anti something scumbag.
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