{"id":18029,"date":"2016-03-25T12:22:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T12:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ps4pro.eu\/?p=18029"},"modified":"2016-03-26T16:39:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T16:39:33","slug":"microsofts-ai-from-normal-to-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2016\/03\/25\/microsofts-ai-from-normal-to-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s AI: From Normal To Racist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Artificial intelligence<\/strong><\/em> can quickly be turned around. This was proven by <em><strong>Microsoft<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;s experiment: people needed less than a day to make the <em><strong>A<\/strong><\/em>I (called <em><strong>Tay<\/strong><\/em>) respond differently from the initial state of it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TayandYou\">Tay was let loose on Twitter by Microsoft.<\/a>\u00a0It can learn from responses, evolving its capabilities and the things it can respond with as more and more users start to communicate with <strong>Tay<\/strong>. The experiment backfired in a somewhat hilarious way, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>In just a single day, Tay became racist, feminist and genocide-supporting. Mind you; it started out by saying things like \u201ehumans are super cool.\u201d <em><strong>Microsoft<\/strong><\/em> quickly turned Tay off to not cause more problems, but the <em>Twitter<\/em> users started a hashtag campaign (#<em><strong>JusticeForTay<\/strong><\/em>) to allow <em><strong>Tay<\/strong><\/em> to return to <em><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/em> and make the chatbot learn from its mistakes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OmegaVoyager\">@OmegaVoyager<\/a> i love feminism now<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TayTweets (@TayandYou) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TayandYou\/status\/712832594983780352\">March 24, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At least, we&#8217;re far from the things we have seen in Terminator and its Skynet. Imagine if <em><strong>Tay<\/strong><\/em> returns with a <em><strong>Shodan<\/strong><\/em> quote, taking <em><strong>Twitter<\/strong> <\/em>entirely over &#8211; however, seeing how humans \u201edefeated\u201d it, it&#8217;s not going to happen soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence can quickly be turned around. This was proven by Microsoft&#8216;s experiment: people needed less than a day to make the AI (called Tay) respond differently from the initial state of it. Tay was let loose on Twitter by Microsoft.\u00a0It can learn from responses, evolving its capabilities and the things it can respond with as more and more users start to communicate with Tay. The experiment backfired in a somewhat hilarious way, to say the least. In just a single day, Tay became racist, feminist and genocide-supporting. Mind you; it started out by saying things like \u201ehumans are super cool.\u201d Microsoft quickly turned Tay off to not cause more problems, but the Twitter users started a hashtag campaign (#JusticeForTay) to allow Tay to return&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2016\/03\/25\/microsofts-ai-from-normal-to-racist\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[2657,2656,2659,134,2658,2260],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Microsoft&#039;s AI: From Normal To Racist! - theGeek.games<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"theGeek.games\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2016\/03\/25\/microsofts-ai-from-normal-to-racist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Microsoft&#039;s AI: From Normal To Racist! 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