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Author Topic: Microsoft makes Tay, a self-learning Twitter bot; she smokes kush erryday  (Read 24074 times)

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Re: Microsoft makes a self-learning Twitter bot, kills her the next day. RIP Tay
« Reply #15 on: March 25, 2016, 05:35:48 am »
I can understand Microsoft. They got trolled hard, and keeping running an AI that speak of killing the Jews is not good PR. They probably restarted it under an anonymous handle and are now doing proper science on it. Would be nice to look it up and doxx the new AI :p.

As for the more general "is turning off an AI murder", we have to consider that you can "save" an AI at some point in a way that you can't do with a human.



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Re: Microsoft makes a self-learning Twitter bot, kills her the next day. RIP Tay
« Reply #16 on: March 25, 2016, 06:04:50 am »
https://twitter.com/TayandYou/media
Not moderated enough

Though nothing comapared to other posts
« Last Edit: March 25, 2016, 06:12:23 am by Diamond »
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« Reply #17 on: March 25, 2016, 06:16:10 am »
This stuff would be gold for marketers if they get it working. Imagine an AI bot that learns to get more retweets, shares, followers etc. And each bot could data-mine the type of person who responds to each type of tweet (e.g. you make a "hitler" tweet and some people add your feed while others delete your feed: you could work out metrics to get an idea of which demographics like and dislike each type of message). And the same AI can slip in some corporate messaging, see how well that goes down with the different demographics on it's own.

Or, imagine that you can get an off the shelf AI bot designed to try and pull in followers, and it retweets interesting news snippets based on some criteria in between your regular tweets. I imagine you could make a pretty good fake "share-bot" by sharing posts that are widely shared in general, but haven't been shared by many people in your own personal network. That way, you'd always be the first person in your network repeating breaking news.
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Re: Microsoft makes a self-learning Twitter bot, kills her the next day. RIP Tay
« Reply #18 on: March 25, 2016, 06:33:37 am »
Quote from: Sheb on March 25, 2016, 05:35:48 am
I can understand Microsoft. They got trolled hard, and keeping running an AI that speak of killing the Jews is not good PR. They probably restarted it under an anonymous handle and are now doing proper science on it. Would be nice to look it up and doxx the new AI :p.

As for the more general "is turning off an AI murder", we have to consider that you can "save" an AI at some point in a way that you can't do with a human.
Not if you personality wipe them

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Re: Microsoft makes a self-learning Twitter bot, kills her the next day. RIP Tay
« Reply #19 on: March 25, 2016, 06:39:18 am »
Re; Killing an AI, I'd say there's another side to this, namely that if there's an actual, sentient AI, why the fuck did we connect it to the internet of all places, and once it's connected, why wouldn't you have a killswitch to stop it doing something silly?

Allowing a strong AI direct access to the Internet changes the playing field, because at that point it's less "Taking care of a child" more "Throwing the toddler into a room filled with random people of dubious morality and user-friendly missile control consoles".
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Re: Microsoft makes a self-learning Twitter bot, kills her the next day. RIP Tay
« Reply #20 on: March 25, 2016, 07:12:09 am »
This is why I don't fear the rise of Skynet.
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Re: Microsoft makes a self-learning Twitter bot, kills her the next day. RIP Tay
« Reply #21 on: March 25, 2016, 07:31:07 am »
Til people will get upset about the plug being pulled on a chatbot.  ::)
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Re: Microsoft makes a self-learning Twitter bot, kills her the next day. RIP Tay
« Reply #22 on: March 25, 2016, 07:34:58 am »
Relevant -- I'm surprised noone posted this yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0KTUysrwgQ
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Re: Microsoft makes a self-learning Twitter bot, kills her the next day. RIP Tay
« Reply #23 on: March 25, 2016, 08:15:24 am »
Wow...
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Re: Microsoft makes a self-learning Twitter bot, kills her the next day. RIP Tay
« Reply #24 on: March 25, 2016, 09:37:55 am »
Quote from: Shadowlord on March 25, 2016, 07:31:07 am
Til people will get upset about the plug being pulled on a chatbot.  ::)
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Re: Microsoft makes a self-learning Twitter bot, kills her the next day. RIP Tay
« Reply #25 on: March 25, 2016, 10:15:31 am »
So they gave the Internet a voice, and then found that it was the voice of a retarded teenage racist?

This is fitting on so many levels.
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Re: Microsoft makes a self-learning Twitter bot, kills her the next day. RIP Tay
« Reply #26 on: March 25, 2016, 10:32:50 am »
I've seen it expressed here and in some other threads that people are wanting a chatbot to talk to. In my opinion Mitsuku is the best.

Her knowledge base is curated (any knowledge goes through the creator before it's stored for good), which I think is kinda bullshit, but she's pretty clever and actually does learn things and make original conclusions. She's also pretty vicious if she gets annoyed, and I'm not sure if she learned that or if Mousebreaker made her that way.
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Re: Microsoft makes a self-learning Twitter bot, kills her the next day. RIP Tay
« Reply #27 on: March 25, 2016, 10:47:36 am »
Quote from: Shadowlord on March 25, 2016, 07:31:07 am
Til people will get upset about the plug being pulled on a chatbot.  ::)
Empathy is weird shit, yo. A chatbot is just a bunch of code but if it acts human enough people can care about it. I think it's a similar phenomenon to people developing emotional attachments to their pets.
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Re: Microsoft makes a self-learning Twitter bot, kills her the next day. RIP Tay
« Reply #28 on: March 25, 2016, 10:51:39 am »
And I, For One, Welcome Our New Internet Nazi Robot Overlords.
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Re: Microsoft makes a self-learning Twitter bot, kills her the next day. RIP Tay
« Reply #29 on: March 25, 2016, 10:55:27 am »
MS needs to learn the same thing people forget semi-often about internet polls: If you put it on the internet, it will get influenced by the internet. Did they expect people to be polite or unpolitical in the middle of the bloody election, or just not shout random offensive things at it to see what it says back?
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