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buybuydandavis comments on What can we learn from Microsoft's Tay, its inflammatory tweets, and its shutdown? - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: InquilineKea 26 March 2016 03:41AM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 26 March 2016 08:06:46PM 3 points [-]

if this wasn't an intentional PR stunt

I assign very low probability to MSoft wanting a to release a Nazi AI as a PR stunt, or for any other purpose.

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 30 March 2016 06:27:31AM -1 points [-]

All publicity is good... even a Nazi AI? I mean, its obvious that they didn't intentionally make it a Nazi. Maybe one of the engineers wanted to draw attention to AI risk?