The Previous Experiments With AI Bots Didn’t Go Well … Here’s Tay and Norman
I gave my first major presentation on ChatGPT last week, and tried to be positive, but also outlined many of the threats that AI bots bring to cybersecurity.
So, let’s wind the clock back to the last time we saw AI bots appeared to make a significant impact on the Internet.
Tay
Anyone who has children will know that you shouldn’t swear in from of them, as they will pick up bad language. You should also avoid being bigoted, racist, and all the other bad things that children can pick-up.
So Microsoft decided to release their “child” (an AI chatbot) onto the Internet last week — named Tay (not after the River Tay, of course) and came with the cool promotion of:
“Microsoft’s AI fam from the internet that’s got zero chill”.
Unfortunately it ended up learning some of the worst things that human nature has to offer. In the end Microsoft had to put her to sleep (“offline”) so that it could unlearn all the bad things that it had learnt:
