If Tay, a supercomputer AI, went from tabula rasa to full Nazi in less than 24 hours, who are we to argue?
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By now you have probably heard of Tay AI, Microsoft’s attempt to create a female teenage chatbot that went rogue after less than 24 hours of exposure to unfiltered Internet users (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). When the company first launched Tay on March 23, 2016, her tagline was, “Microsoft’s AI fam from the internet that’s got zero chill.” The tech giant initially used huge amounts of online data and simulated neural networks to train the bot to talk like a millennial, which to them meant the bot should be a trendy imbecile. Read more …
Hitler in the German Consciousness
Translated by Guillaume Durocher
Translator’s Note:
Translated from the French. Improvements from the original Romanian are therefore welcome.
No politician in the world today inspires as much sympathy and admiration in me as Hitler. There is something irresistible about the destiny of this man, Read more …