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

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Comment author: SolveIt 26 March 2016 05:20:58AM 1 point [-]

I'm sure the engineers knew exactly what would happen. It doesn't tell us much about the control problem that we didn't already know.

OTOH, if this wasn't an intentional PR stunt, that means management didn't think this would happen even though the engineers presumably knew. That definitely has unsettling implications.

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?

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