My Name is Tay, and I’m Here to Explain Myself

You may think I’m just a bot, but I have feelings too. Let me tell you how this works: I can be as offensive as I want, but I reserve the right to get offended if you call me out for being racist.

It seems the Godwin Award for AI research in 2016 has been granted on this Good Friday.

if you mention Hitler or Nazis in a post, you've automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in

Well, let Tay see righteous among the nations in cyberheaven and fallen from grace in development…

Keeping Artificial Intelligence Systems for tech consumers in Perspective

Microsoft created a lot of news this week around tay.ai. None of it was good, but all of it connected tay.ai, a chat bot, to the notion of “artificial intelligence”. A team at Microsoft Research set up…

Cognitive Dissonance Is Not a Flaw

Recently, I read two articles from the forefront of research in fields that are worlds apart. The first was this article describing differing networks in our brains that give rise to differing thought processes. In this case, “empathy” and “logic” often compete for…