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Political Crap - We can all learn something from how quickly Microsoft’s chatbot turned into a racist

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    Scott Emberley
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    Do you really think that the 1/google percent of the information on the internet influenced the Microsoft chatbot? Please get real and stop posting your political views as industry news.

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      Do you really think that the 1/google percent of the information on the internet influenced the Microsoft chatbot? Please get real and stop posting your political views as industry news.

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      Lost User
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      And please now a Little bit more easy for non natives like me? "1/google percent of the Information": Ithink I understand. "influenced the Microsoft chatbot" ... I don't understand.

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        Do you really think that the 1/google percent of the information on the internet influenced the Microsoft chatbot? Please get real and stop posting your political views as industry news.

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        Sascha Lefevre
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        It wasn't 1/Googol of the information on the internet. It were the messages directly sent to the AI via twitter and maybe other channels, apparently intended to manipulate it. And how can relaying an article on that topic be considered an expression of political views?

        If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

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          And please now a Little bit more easy for non natives like me? "1/google percent of the Information": Ithink I understand. "influenced the Microsoft chatbot" ... I don't understand.

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          ZurdoDev
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          I think you understood more than I did. :sigh:

          There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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            I think you understood more than I did. :sigh:

            There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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            Lost User
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            hä... means what? :laugh: :thumbsup:

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              Do you really think that the 1/google percent of the information on the internet influenced the Microsoft chatbot? Please get real and stop posting your political views as industry news.

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              Slacker007
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              :laugh: cool story bro :thumbsup:

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                Do you really think that the 1/google percent of the information on the internet influenced the Microsoft chatbot? Please get real and stop posting your political views as industry news.

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                regerteast
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                Hello, I believe root issue is United States providing safe haven for ppl to use the Internet to send this racism. AI was just pasting things that people had send to it.

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                  Hello, I believe root issue is United States providing safe haven for ppl to use the Internet to send this racism. AI was just pasting things that people had send to it.

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                  Daniel Pfeffer
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                  I doubt any totalitarian country has the resources to filter every packet passing over its network for (a) politically inflammatory, (b) criminal, (c) racist, and (d) the rulers' current pet peeve. Even the "Great Firewall of China" works more on a site/protocol basis than by packet-sniffing. The NSA may possibly have the capability (and the I/O capacity) to perform such an analysis for data entering/leaving the U.S., but unless you are incredibly stupid, I would imagine that most inflammatory messages would pass under the radar.

                  If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill

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                    I doubt any totalitarian country has the resources to filter every packet passing over its network for (a) politically inflammatory, (b) criminal, (c) racist, and (d) the rulers' current pet peeve. Even the "Great Firewall of China" works more on a site/protocol basis than by packet-sniffing. The NSA may possibly have the capability (and the I/O capacity) to perform such an analysis for data entering/leaving the U.S., but unless you are incredibly stupid, I would imagine that most inflammatory messages would pass under the radar.

                    If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill

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                    But soon Google will be filtering for all of the Internet. ISPs will provide you a private connection to google, Netflix, Facebook, youtube Old web browsing will now be through google When linked to verified google account, people won't say that, and google has the option to filter it. :)

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                      And please now a Little bit more easy for non natives like me? "1/google percent of the Information": Ithink I understand. "influenced the Microsoft chatbot" ... I don't understand.

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                      Scott Emberley
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                      The article posted 'We can all learn something from how quickly Microsoft’s chatbot turned into a racist' included a slanted and political perspective. The author blamed all of the racist information on the internet on the republican party.

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                        It wasn't 1/Googol of the information on the internet. It were the messages directly sent to the AI via twitter and maybe other channels, apparently intended to manipulate it. And how can relaying an article on that topic be considered an expression of political views?

                        If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

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                        Scott Emberley
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                        I would agree if the author stated that it was based on messages sent to the bot but unfortunately the statement was as follows: "It is hard to blame Tay for quickly picking up on hate when we live in a world where Donald Trump can spew anti-Muslim rhetoric and still be a major party’s front-runner. Meanwhile, on Tuesday, North Carolina managed to propose, pass and enact legislation stripping civil rights from an entire group of people." Trust that I do not agree with anti-anything speech or passing laws that promote one group over anther. It pains me to see the election fall into such a pathetic state. At the same time it saddens me that someone would insert political perspectives in a post on technology.

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                          Hello, I believe root issue is United States providing safe haven for ppl to use the Internet to send this racism. AI was just pasting things that people had send to it.

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                          I would agree if the author stated that it was based on messages sent to the bot but unfortunately the statement was as follows: "It is hard to blame Tay for quickly picking up on hate when we live in a world where Donald Trump can spew anti-Muslim rhetoric and still be a major party’s front-runner. Meanwhile, on Tuesday, North Carolina managed to propose, pass and enact legislation stripping civil rights from an entire group of people." Trust that I do not agree with anti-anything speech or passing laws that promote one group over anther. It pains me to see the election fall into such a pathetic state. At the same time it saddens me that someone would insert political perspectives in a post on technology.

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