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Google's AI beats go champions. Microsoft's AI turns into a racist genocidal maniac.
by golfer 11y ago
Google's AI beats go champions. Microsoft's AI turns into a racist genocidal maniac.
- Grishnakh 11y agoThe next time someone talks about purchasing or using Microsoft software, you can point to this and ask them if they want to support a company that literally agrees with Hitler, and has said so publicly!
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- sremani 11y agoTay is more a reflection of the interwebs of today, than the culture or values of Microsoft. I think we should be cautious about our conclusions.
- golfer 11y agoPerhaps, but it is naive of the Microsoft researchers to think this wasn't a possibility. They should have seen this coming and prepared accordingly.
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- Crito 11y agoAt worst, Microsoft researchers are guilty of not being familiar with internet racism. Hardly a great sin.
- siegecraft 11y agoThey didn't sanitize their input data.. that's the worst sin you can commit.
- Crito 11y agoThat's pretty fucking hyperbolic. A technical "sin" perhaps, but people are heaping derision on them as though they committed some great moral sin.
- siegecraft 11y agoHrm, I assumed it would be obvious I meant a technical sin
- umeshunni 11y agoAdd this to the manual on how not to do a PR stunt
- Kristine1975 11y agoEverybody's talking about it, aren't they? "No such thing as bad PR" an all that...
- 794CD01 11y agoGoogle's AI was designed to play go, and became an expert at Go. Microsoft's AI was designed to use twitter, and became an expert at twitter.