Tay, Microsoft AI chatbot

Microsoft has apologised for creating an artificially intelligent chatbot that quickly turned into a holocaust-denying racist.
But in doing so made it clear Tay's views were a result of nurture, not nature. Tay confirmed what we already knew: people on the internet can be cruel. Link.

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• Microsoft's Chinese version, XiaoIce has delighted and succeeded whereas Tay (designed for Western audiences) had to be pulled for quickly becoming racist and agreeing holocaust denial. Does this denote a difference in culture? Approaches to technology that speak to western / eastern cultural "difference?"

• Should Tay have been allowed (as originally intended) to learn and develop - was it pulled before it could learn? Could it have learned and challenged the hateful views taught it?

• Could this have helped in exploring whether that old argument about free will and determinism has any merit one way or another?

• What did the speed an "innocent" quickly became indoctrinated say about some of the hateful preachers on all sides of the internet?

Infinite Chaos said:

Apologies if this thread has come up before but there are interesting ramifications of this experiment. I did do a search of the whole forum for "Tay" and nothing came up.

• Microsoft's Chinese version, XiaoIce has delighted and succeeded whereas Tay (designed for Western audiences) had to be pulled for quickly becoming racist and agreeing holocaust denial. Does this denote a difference in culture? Approaches to technology that speak to western / eastern cultural "difference?"

Learning behaviour,

• Should Tay have been allowed (as originally intended) to learn and develop - was it pulled before it could learn? Could it have learned and challenged the hateful views taught it?

"Free Will"

• Could this have helped in exploring whether that old argument about free will and determinism has any merit one way or another?

Learned behaviour and internet trolling.

• What did the speed an "innocent" quickly became indoctrinated say about some of the hateful preachers on all sides of the internet?

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Northern Light said:

Really interesting story, thank you.

What it proves is that the internet has become a cesspool for bottom feeding trolls.

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Infinite Chaos said:

Apologies if this thread has come up before but there are interesting ramifications of this experiment. I did do a search of the whole forum for "Tay" and nothing came up.

• Microsoft's Chinese version, XiaoIce has delighted and succeeded whereas Tay (designed for Western audiences) had to be pulled for quickly becoming racist and agreeing holocaust denial. Does this denote a difference in culture? Approaches to technology that speak to western / eastern cultural "difference?"

Learning behaviour,

• Should Tay have been allowed (as originally intended) to learn and develop - was it pulled before it could learn? Could it have learned and challenged the hateful views taught it?

"Free Will"

• Could this have helped in exploring whether that old argument about free will and determinism has any merit one way or another?

Learned behaviour and internet trolling.

• What did the speed an "innocent" quickly became indoctrinated say about some of the hateful preachers on all sides of the internet?

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