Cenk Uygur
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Microsoft Tries To Reprogram Nazi Bot... With Limited Success...
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March 31, 2016
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4:12Now PlayingMicrosoft had released its A.I. bot on Twitter. It ended badly with the bot tweeting Nazi propaganda. They shut it down, did some reprogramming and decided to try it again. It went better, but still tweeted about smoking kush in front of the police. Ana Kasparian, Sam Schacher (Pop Trigger), and Kenny Hamilton, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Microsoft’s attempt to converse with millennials using an artificial intelligence bot plugged into Twitter made a short-lived return on Wednesday, before bowing out again in some sort of meltdown.
The learning experiment, which got a crash-course in racism, Holocaust denial and sexism courtesy of Twitter users, was switched back on overnight and appeared to be operating in a more sensible fashion. Microsoft had previously gone through the bot’s tweets and removed the most offensive and vowed only to bring the experiment back online if the company’s engineers could “better anticipate malicious intent that conflicts with our principles and values”.
However, at one point Tay tweeted about taking drugs, in front of the police, no less.”*
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