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Oι χειρότερες στιγμές του 2016 στην τεχνολογία: από το Note 7, στον ναζί λογαριασμό της Microsoft στο Twitter!

Όσο το τέλος του έτους πλησιάζει, στο The Nerd δημιουργούμε διάφορές λίστες που συνοψίζουν το 2016. Μέχρι σήμερα έχουμε αναφερθεί στα:

The Nerd Awards 2016: Η καλύτερες mirrorless κάμερες

The Nerd Awards 2016: το καλύτερο mobile παιχνίδι του 2016

The Nerd Awards 2016: το καλύτερο κινέζικο smartphone

The Nerd Awards 2016: το καλύτερο Android Tablet

The Nerd Awards 2016: καλύτερη κάμερα σε…

Hopefully this won’t happen! I’ve been trying to avoid memes that are problematic or marginalizing. Since I curate what goes into it, I can kind of avoid having it turn into a straight-up nazi like theirs did.

There are still possibilities for me to miss stuff, or for things to be combined in a way that I didn’t anticipate that is horrible, but no where near the scale that Microsoft went wrong with Tay. They didn’t even implement the most basic functionality to keep it from posting slurs, they didn’t think to maybe make it not learn the names of extremely high-profile harassment victims, etc. 

The whole thing was a clusterfuck, and honestly, it was one because Microsoft is staffed by privileged jackasses who don’t know how the internet works but insist on building stuff for it anyway; pretty much anyone who was even remotely familiar with Twitter, bots that “learn” from talking to people, or bigotry in web culture in general would have been able to predict that it would’ve gone wrong.

Microsoft AI bot Tay returns to Twitter, goes on spam tirade, then back to sleep

Microsoft once again launched on Wednesday its twitter chatboot “Tay” after a week of shutting its down, whereon she went on a spam tirade and then quickly fell silent again.

Microsoft’s AI bot “Tay” quickly came back to Twitter today after a week, whereon she went on a spam tirade and afterward rapidly fell noiseless once more. Tay was made by the Microsoft Technology and Research and Bing…

Microsoft chatbot “Tay” goes offline after the abusive remarks

Microsoft  “Tay” goes off after the AI shot tweets running from backing for Nazis and Donald Trump to sexual remarks and offend went for ladies and blacks.

Microsoft introduced its AI experiment of a Chatbot “tay” that was designed to chat like a teenage girl. The newly launched “tay” which was responding to tweets and chats on GroupMe and Kik, has already been shut down due to concerns with its…

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Artificial intelligence test on Twitter creates a racist, hate-filled bot

Microsoft has switched off an artificial intelligence after Twitter users taught it to say offensive things. The verified Twitter account, named Tay, was intended to catch the imagination of 18- to 24-year-olds but proved the plaything of pranksters who made it come out with racist and homophobic messages. One encouraged the bot to say that "Bush did 9/11" and "Hitler would have done a better job than the monkey we have now". Microsoft switched off bot after a few hours, signing off with the message: "c u soon humans need sleep now so many conversations today thx".

As it learns, some of its responses are inappropriate and indicative of the types of interactions some people are having with it. We're making some adjustments to Tay

Microsoft spokesman

Microsoft says the bot is intended to "experiment with and conduct research on conversational understanding". But many users realised it was possible to make the bot repeat outrageous statements. One attempted to teach it some of Donald Trump's proposed policies that he would introduce as president. It also answered the fairly innocent question "is Ricky Gervais an atheist?" with the bizarre response: "Ricky Gervais learned totalitarianism from Adolf Hitler, the inventor of atheism." However, Tay did eventually appear to back away and one of its tweets read: "You know I'm a lot more than just this."

Okay. I'm done. I feel used.