Schadenfreude - Microsoft, AI - imitating humans is not as great as you might think

[Bernard Murphy]

So here's the thing - you train an AI system to mirror humans, in this case a teenage girl. What could go wrong?

It’s Your Fault Microsoft’s Teen AI Turned Into Such a Jerk | WIRED

 

[Daniel Nenni]

Reminds me of my undergrad senior project. I programmed a phonetic voice synthesizer for a Comodore PC. The first thing I had it do was say dirty jokes... Just to debug the code of course and to amuse my friends.

Meanwhile my Amazon Echo continues to amaze me. Here are some funny ones:

Echo Tricks - Amazon Echo and Alexa Tips and Tricks

 

[Staf_Verhaegen]

It has been proven again that humans are flawed, the faster we replace all of them with machines the better ...




PS: Don't forget to turn on sarcasm detector when reading previous line.

 

[Bernard Murphy]

A deep learning sarcasm detector - now that would be an interesting project