So what happens when you learn about life and the
world from Twitter?
Microsoft unwittingly found out in fifteen hours
when it launched its artificial intelligence chatbot Tay on Wednesday.
Tay was designed to learn to carry on twitter
exchanges based upon its interactions with other twitter users.
Within 15 hours of its launch Tay was pulled out of
circulation after it had gone from a friendly opening greeting to spouting
things like “Bush did 9/11 and Hitler would have done a better job than the
monkey we have got now. donald trump is the only hope we’ve got”.
Perhaps this is an indication of what social media
is doing to public discourse.
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