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Yet another peril of AI - terrafamilia - 03-25-2016
Not only does one have to ask who watches the watchmen, we'll have to start asking who is vetting the teachers of young, impressionable AIs.
http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/24/microsoft-silences-its-new-a-i-bot-tay-after-twitter-users-teach-it-racism/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/technology/microsoft-created-a-twitter-bot-to-learn-from-users-it-quickly-became-a-racist-jerk.html?_r=0
I always suspected Twitter was evil. ;-P
Ciao,
Terrafamilia
RE: Yet another peril of AI - Bear - 03-25-2016
Good god, I was stomping AI racism at a client site lately too. This bit was just blatant because it was customer-facing and public. But yeah. Learning systems will learn racism from racists. Or, as in this case, from trolls.
I saw it at
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/03/24/microsoft-nixes-ai-bot-for-racist-rant.html