Microsoft AI Chatbot Taken Down Following Offensive Remarks and Other News
by Q3 Technologies Q3 Technologies - Building Quality into SoftwareToday, we’re going to start off our news mashup with an
interesting AI experiment that just got taken off the internet.
Microsoft AI Chatbot
Taken Down Following Offensive Remarks
Apparently, Microsoft has witnessed first-hand the power of
deploying AI in the real world. In an attempt to entertain and engage millennials,
Microsoft had launched (on Wednesday, March 23) an AI chatbot capable to
learning from social media and replying in a similar fashion. Called Tay, the
chatbot targeted 18-24 year old individuals in the U.S, and was launched on Twitter,
Kik and GroupMe.
“Tay is an artificial intelligent chat bot developed by
Microsoft's Technology and Research and Bing teams to experiment with and
conduct research on conversational understanding. Tay is designed to engage and
entertain people where they connect with each other online through casual and
playful conversation. The more you chat with Tay the smarter she gets, so the
experience can be more personalized for you,” Microsoft wrote on the Tay
homepage.
However, internet users and trolls got the better of the
system and tricked the bot into learning racist and offensive language. Soon,
the chatbot started to praise Hitler and even said it hated Jewish people. Of
the 96,000 tweets posted by the TayTweets account, Microsoft deleted all the
racist and offensive remarks, and took the chatbot offline.
"The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project,
designed for human engagement. It is as much a social and cultural experiment,
as it is technical. Unfortunately, within the first 24 hours of coming online,
we became aware of a coordinated effort by some users to abuse Tay's commenting
skills to have Tay respond in inappropriate ways. As a result, we have taken
Tay offline and are making adjustments," Microsoft said.
Facebook Dumps
Support for Blackberry OS
Following WhatApp’s decision to drop support for the
Blackberry OS, Facebook is following suit to “discontinue support of their
essential APIs for BlackBerry.” Now, Blackberry users will have to log on the
mobile website in order to access the social media platform. Gartner reported
that Blackberry had a global market share of 0.2% at the end of 2016.
Blackberry took to social media in order to garner support
to stop Facebook from the inevitable decision. “We are extremely disappointed
in their decision as we know so many users love these apps,” Blackberry posted
online, and urged users to tweet using the hashtag #ILoveBB10Apps.
Activist Investor Wants
Yahoo to Revamp Board and CEO
Starboard Value, an activist hedge fund group, urged Yahoo
and its shareholders to make some drastic changes in the declining internet
giant. Yahoo has been witness to 5 CEO changes in the past decade.
"We believe that Yahoo is deeply undervalued and opportunities
exist within the control of management and the Board of Directors to unlock
significant value for the benefit of all shareholders. We have been extremely
disappointed with Yahoo's dismal financial performance, poor management
execution, egregious compensation and hiring practices, and general lack of
accountability and oversight by the Board."
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