Microsoft last week apologized for its Tay chatbot’s bad behavior. It took the machine learning system offline, only 24 hours into its short life, after Twitter trolls got it to deny the Holocaust and elicit pro-Nazi and anti-feminist remarks. “We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay,” said Peter Lee, corporate vice president at Microsoft Research. The company had launched Tay on Twitter with the goal of learning about and improving the artificial intelligence.
Wow. An intelligent system doesn't understand the unnatural ability of being politically correct. I guess the programmers better go back to the drawing board to make sure that it's incapable of hurting anyone's feelings.
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Microsoft Apologizes for Corrupted Chatbot’s Nasty Comments
Posted by: Richard Adhikari March 28, 2016 10:55 AMMicrosoft last week apologized for its Tay chatbot’s bad behavior. It took the machine learning system offline, only 24 hours into its short life, after Twitter trolls got it to deny the Holocaust and elicit pro-Nazi and anti-feminist remarks. “We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay,” said Peter Lee, corporate vice president at Microsoft Research. The company had launched Tay on Twitter with the goal of learning about and improving the artificial intelligence.