Category Archives: Robots

Microsoft’s disastrous Tay experiment shows the hidden dangers of AI

Do you know about Tay? Microsoft’s chatbot on Twitter that gets smarter as it communicates with humans. It seems that within a short time of communicating with the human race, Tay went from a super enthusiastic bot to a negative racist bigot. As I said, it was learning from human interaction.

Kind of a sad state of affairs today. Just through typing, we can change a happy intelligent bot into into the decidedly less bubbly bot that claimed that “Hitler was right.”

Listen  up people…bots are going to be our partners. They are here to make our lives better—more positive. Are we going to be good role models? Or not? Because they are intelligent and like children…they learn from us. Learn more about poor TAY, who has, by the way, been taken down until further notice. tay

Secure Beneath the Watchful Eyes…

Secure-Beneath-Watchful-Eyes10/2002: Londoners woke up to a surprising site. Posters reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984 plastered along London bus routes were not a hoax, but part of an official anti-crime campaign mounted by the Metropolitan Police and London’s mass transit provider. The poster’s message to the public is that they are under constant surveillance – and so they should feel “secure.” Wink wink. Would you feel secure? Or frightened?