Vaniver comments on Open Thread, January 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 13 January 2013 03:47:14PM *  5 points [-]

Watson, the IBM AI, was fed urban dictionary to increase its vocabulary / help it understand slang. It started swearing at researchers, and they were unable to teach it good manners, so they deleted the offending vocabulary from its memory and added a swear filter. IBTimes.