On March 23 Microsoft created a new twitter account under
the name of @tayandyou. This is no
ordinary Twitter however because all twits would be sent out by none other than
Microsoft new A.I. bot Tay.
The Tay project is something Microsoft has been working on
for years. It’s intend? To mimic a
teenage girls interaction with the online world. Tay was created using a
learning algorithm which allows it to learn by interacting with others.
She was existed and enthusiastic about learning from humans
and was quick to pick up the recipe for a funny meme.
But as you can guess jokes aren’t the only thing one could
pick up from the internet. She then
developed political viewpoints some of which a little on the extreme side.
From there all hell broke loose.
It’s hard to say if she was just regurgitating what she had
picked up from one user, or the more likely scenario she noticed a trend in the
questions being asked of her and ventured off to find the most commonly used
responses.
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