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Lamp2 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: Lamp2 08 April 2016 01:58:35AM 0 points [-]

I though a bit about it, but I think Tay is basically a software version of a parrot that repeats back what it hears - I don't think it has any commonsense knowledge or serious attempt to understand that tweets are about a world that exists outside of twitter. I.e it has no semantics

Well neither does image recognition software. Neither does Google's search algorithm.