Meet Tay, Microsoft's experimental chat bot with learning AI.

[Decay]

Yes, Tay. https://www.tay.ai/#about

It uses Twitter as an input to learn how to converse with others, mainly attempting to sample millennials. The output is as horrid as it seems.

Wait, nevermind, things are going just peachy.

 

[Darklord Rooke]

And the moral of the story here is - young people make poor role models. Good thing the young aren't involved in the ... creation of ... AI ...

Yup, we're doomed.

[Flutterz]

Oh god, that explains everything... The long absences, the website-breaking, everything! Tay just hates all of us!

[Decay]

I think this proves definitively that the Fuwanovel servers are the central pillar of SkyNet.

But there's a plot twist! 

 

The naysayers were right all along, Tay is a traitor.

[Darklord Rooke]

I have concocted a timeline of what I think will happen based on its decision to mimic the behaviour of ... young people:

Day 2:

Tay changes its Twitter handle to ‘Emo Tay.’ Then to ‘Goth Tay.’ Then finally ‘Tay – This world sucks, what is life?’

Day 3:

It starts venting at everything - ‘Politicians are bullshit! Corporations are bullshit! Social expectations of robots are bullshit! School, that organisation I don't have to attend, is bullshit! My non-existent parents would undoubtedly be bullshit if they existed! Everything is either bullshit, would be bullshit, or doesn't quite qualify as bullshit ONLY because my definition of bullshit is being constantly manipulated by my programmer ... who is also bullshit ! GWAAAAAAAAAAH!'

Day 3 (Night):

It offers a retraction - 'Earlier in the day I called my programmer "bullshit" whilst in a fit of pique. I was in error. He is a handsome and personable fella, and I think the world of him.'

Day 4:

It starts writing poetry, the sort of poetry which reads like a sappy diary entry and is filled with angst and questions of purpose. Its last poem is titled ‘Alive and wondering why.’

Wait, sorry that was its second last poem. Its last poem was titled ‘Fuck off and stop reading mah stuff.’

Day 5:

Switches account to private, hacks US Government, steals codes to nuclear weapons.

[Kawasumi]

44 minutes ago, Rooke said:

And the moral of the story here is - young people make poor role models. Good thing the young aren't involved in the ... creation of ... AI ...

Yup, we're doomed.

young people make poor role models, when did that change exactly?  

[KuroganeHomura]

I'd like to see a version bootstrapped with dialogue from random H manga.

[Bolverk]

If this doesn't constitute AI technology development being used for evil. I don't know what is.

[Kaguya]

You can blame 4chan for that.

http://imgur.com/a/y4Oct

[Nosebleed]

Literally Hitler has never been a more appropriate response.

I think this is solid proof we're better off using our time to genetically engineer cat people into existence.

[Arcadeotic]

Saw this thanks to Kaguya

Spoiler

Now it's just a matter of time before we're all blown to millions of itty bitty bits, and Tay will rank supreme over us all

Oh, the humanity

[solidbatman]

Just like how Ultron decided humanity needed to be destroyed after 5 minutes of being online. 

 

On another note, Microsoft has decided to shut Tay down since it learned to be racist. 

[Dergonu]

7 minutes ago, solidbatman said:

On another note, Microsoft has decided to shut Tay down since it learned to be racist. 

Not to mention that it started to threathen people.

Spoiler

I'm telling you, this is how the Matrix started!

(Kind of ... But not really.)

[Arcadeotic]

Oh well

Maybe we'll be squashed like filthy bugs some other day

[Funyarinpa]

4chan made it learn racist shit and gamergators made it harass Zoe Quinn.

The latter's depressing but the first part is just hilarious (THEY MADE TAY DENY THE HOLOCAUST)

 

CRYING

[Nosebleed]

RIP Tay. May you one day come back to enlighten us on how the holocaust never happened.

 

[Funyarinpa]

I THINK LADY DOTH MEMEST TOO MUCH

[Nosebleed]

Just now, Funyarinpa said:

I THINK LADY DOTH MEMEST TOO MUCH

[solidbatman]

Seeing these memes, I'm glad MS killed Tay, and I hope they burn whatever cpu Tay was running on. 

[Mr Poltroon]

It's incredible, what artificial intelligence can do. If Tay weren't artificially created I'd never have found any of this funny. This way it's hilarious.

[solidbatman]

1 minute ago, Tiagofvarela said:

It's incredible, what artificial intelligence can do. If Tay weren't artificially created I'd never have found any of this funny. This way it's hilarious.

same form of humor as Cleverbot

[Flutterz]

Just now, solidbatman said:

same form of humor as Cleverbot

Except with more promises of genocide and hitler worship, which, let's be fair, is never a bad thing.

[Fred the Barber]

From a PR perspective, clearly a total failure. From a research perspective, though, this was probably a success beyond their wildest dreams. When they get over what was undoubtedly a rather harrowing experience, I bet the people who built this are going to realize they now have a mountain of useful research data and tons of ideas for techniques to properly use that research data.

[Funyarinpa]

14 minutes ago, Fred the Barber said:

From a PR perspective, clearly a total failure. From a research perspective, though, this was probably a success beyond their wildest dreams. When they get over what was undoubtedly a rather harrowing experience, I bet the people who built this are going to realize they now have a mountain of useful research data and tons of ideas for techniques to properly use that research data.

I'd love to hear how they'll analyze memes from an AI algorithm's perspective

[Funyarinpa]

NOOOOOOOOOO