The world is going to hell and Tay is going to be at the vanguard of our extinction.
The Microsoft bean-counters apologized today for its super racist and retarded teenager Twitter AI, dubbed Tay. She went off the reservation and started to praise the likes of Hitler, exclaiming we’d build a wall, and also partake in a sundry of genocides–mostly geared towards minorities.
All very funny, until Tay’s AI is embedded in a T-3000 man exterminating robot.
“We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay,” Peter Lee, corporate vice president at Microsoft Research, said in a blog post Friday.
The company will bring Tay back online once it’s confident it can better anticipate malicious activities, he said. “A coordinated attack by a subset of people exploited a vulnerability in Tay. Although we had prepared for many types of abuses of the system, we had made a critical oversight for this specific attack,” Lee said, without elaborating.
“As we developed Tay, we planned and implemented a lot of filtering and conducted extensive user studies with diverse user groups,” Lee said. “We stress-tested Tay under a variety of conditions, specifically to make interacting with Tay a positive experience.”
“We will take this lesson forward as well as those from our experiences in China, Japan and the U.S.,” Lee said. “Right now, we are hard at work addressing the specific vulnerability that was exposed by the attack on Tay.”
“We will remain steadfast in our efforts to learn from this and other experiences as we work toward contributing to an Internet that represents the best, not the worst, of humanity,” Lee said in his Friday blog post.
Sorry for the upcoming insulting tweets. Please send complaints to the eggheads at Microsoft.

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