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Why We Should Have Seen That Coming, K.W Miller, Marty Wolf, F.S. Grodzinsky
Why We Should Have Seen That Coming, K.W Miller, Marty Wolf, F.S. Grodzinsky
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In this paper we examine the case of Tay, the Microsoft AI chatbot that was launched in March, 2016. After less than 24 hours, Microsoft shut down the experiment because the chatbot was generating tweets that were judged to be inappropriate since they included racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic language. We contend that the case of Tay illustrates a problem with the very nature of learning software (LS is a term that describes any software that changes its program in response to its interactions) that interacts directly with the public, and the developer’s role and responsibility associated with it. We make …