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Looks Like Microsoft’s New Chatbot, Zo, Is Already Turning Into a Right-Wing Misanthrope
heat street ^ | Dec 5, 2016 | William HIcks

Posted on 12/05/2016 10:14:16 PM PST by jcon40

Microsoft’s first attempt at a chatbot that learns from conversations on the Internet was a total disaster. It did not take long for “Tay” to become a bigoted online edgelord thanks to suggestive conversations with the folks at 4chan and 8chan. Big tech companies are trying to create the bot of the future will eventually be able to help run our lives like something out of a sci fi movie. Bots like Tay learn from conversations with real people and will spit back out information its learned. This has given trolls an opening to mess with the bot and teach it “problematic” ideas in the hopes it will pas it along to others.

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Well, Microsoft won’t give up easily on their march towards progress and has quietly launched a new chatbot, Zo.ai, available to for conversations on the Kik App. This time the bot is heavily censored and will shut down conversations about anything remotely political. While Tay was a mouthy firebrand, Zo is kind of a wet blanket.

(Excerpt) Read more at heatst.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Education; Science
KEYWORDS: mszoconservative; windowspinglist
Seems tech savvy Conservatives are capturing their share of what was a dominant Liberal Tech bias !

Article has some poor writing / editing but the message looks good for the Tech-Right

1 posted on 12/05/2016 10:14:17 PM PST by jcon40
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To: jcon40

WUT?
He said: Right-Wing Misanthrope.

2 posted on 12/05/2016 10:18:12 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life ~ Vote!)
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To: jcon40; Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; amigatec; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ...
Microsoft takes another stab at a ChatBot ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

3 posted on 12/05/2016 10:35:12 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: jcon40

> “Right-Wing Misanthrope”?

Tsk.

How about Left-Wing Troglodyte?


4 posted on 12/05/2016 10:35:56 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: jcon40

Computers are made with logic circuits. You can’t make them ‘think’ like liberals.


5 posted on 12/05/2016 11:01:11 PM PST by TigersEye (Congratulations, President Donald J. Trump! - Let's MAGA!!!)
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To: TigersEye

Computers are made with logic circuits. You can’t make them ‘think’ like liberals.


A left wing chat bot would be easy. Just have it endlessly say the phrase “right wing, sexist, homophobic, bigot”. Pepper in about 50% F-bombs and you’ve got it.


6 posted on 12/05/2016 11:23:20 PM PST by Flick Lives (Les Deplorables Triumphant)
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To: jcon40

“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”

Nope. I don’t want technology to be autonomous.


7 posted on 12/05/2016 11:56:06 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Pollster1

For such a nice voice HAL did turn out to be quite nasty.

What a great movie for its day .... and here we are


8 posted on 12/06/2016 12:44:56 AM PST by jcon40
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To: TigersEye

Great point. Until transistors get emotion capable, they won’t be thinking like a libtard.


9 posted on 12/06/2016 1:15:12 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Flick Lives

And racist.


10 posted on 12/06/2016 2:45:49 AM PST by CriticalJ (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But then I repeat myself. MT)
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To: Liberty Valance
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11 posted on 12/06/2016 4:14:31 AM PST by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: Pollster1

That’s probably my most favorite line of all time.


12 posted on 12/06/2016 5:50:33 AM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: dayglored

Appropo of nothing, I got a 950XL, and a 950 for my daughter which she will receive Christmas morning. (2 for 1 Black Friday deal.) My only disappointment is the desktop shortcuts to favorite websites are ugly, whereas on the 929 the shortcuts were little photos of the page at the time I set the shortcut.
On the upside, the keyboard has a button mouse!
It’s really a very tiny Surface. The Continuum is included with it, but is on back order. The interface with OneDrive is seamless, as if everything was on the phone already.
And the speed! My gosh, it’s faster than my Surface 3.


13 posted on 12/06/2016 6:05:12 AM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: TigersEye
Computers are made with logic circuits. You can’t make them ‘think’ like liberals.

This should be instructive to liberals, but of course, they don't pick up on these nuances.

14 posted on 12/06/2016 6:30:11 AM PST by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: TigersEye

Computers are empty suits - garbage in/garbage out.

Building a perfect left wing robot wouldn’t be that tough - install the liberal pecking order logic as a master ethics algorithm and you’re set.

gay > bi > straight

trans > female > male

black > hispanic > pr > asian > white

No problem. You could go all day. At the end, the robot would be able to mimic the left winger with probably perfect accuracy.

There IS logic to liberalism. It’s generally materialistic, designed to divide, and based on ladling money to the various components of your coalition.

It’s why its been so effective over the years. It’s all about the dollars.


15 posted on 12/06/2016 6:38:12 AM PST by RinaseaofDs (Truth, in a time of universal deceit, is courage)
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To: Flick Lives

You left out ‘xenophobe’....


16 posted on 12/06/2016 8:35:31 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrats:Old white 'feminists' riding hubby's money to election - propped up by angry minorities.)
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To: jcon40

All Microsoft needs to do is limit the interaction to ONLY liberal elites. Let it do it’s ‘learning’ in the New York Times bubble...


17 posted on 12/06/2016 8:37:00 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrats:Old white 'feminists' riding hubby's money to election - propped up by angry minorities.)
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To: Flick Lives; Paladin2; Disambiguator; RinaseaofDs

OK, I think I see what you guys are saying. The computer would be programmed to pretend that it was too stupid to have a conversation, is that it?


18 posted on 12/06/2016 12:43:43 PM PST by TigersEye (Congratulations, President Donald J. Trump! - Let's MAGA!!!)
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