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The apology comes after Tay’s first 24 hours of freedom online last week saw her at turns deny the holocaust and also suggest casual linkages between feminism, and cancer.
Despite exhaustive testing and implementing contingency protocols in her design, Microsoft state that they had not anticipated the actions of a subset of Twitter users and had “made a critical oversight for this specific attack. As a result, Tay tweeted wildly inappropriate and reprehensible words and images.”
Microsoft also took the opportunity to state that they would only revive Tay if its engineers could essentially prevent or undermine internet trolling from shaping the AI in a negative manner.
This is the second apology Microsoft have issued. The first was short and to the point, pointing out as it did, that Tay was an experiment, and a ‘learning machine…[so]…some of its responses are inappropriate and indicative of the types of interactions some people are having with it.”
The idea behind Tay was that the chatbot would become smarter with each passing human the AI conversed with. What the designers didn’t factor into her programming was the capacity for the internet to troll.
“We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay,” said a spokesman for Microsoft. “To do AI right, one needs to iterate with many people and often in public forums. We must enter each one with great caution and ultimately learn and improve, step by step, and to do this without offending people in the process. We will remain steadfast in our efforts to learn from this and other experiences as we work toward contributing to an Internet that represents the best, not the worst, of humanity.”
In short, this was probably Microsoft’s way of saying: F***** internet trolls.
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When John F. Kennedy, Jr., announced rather ambitiously that the US would put a man on the moon within only a matter of years, the reactions were part awed, part derisive. Some saw it as the limitless ability of the best minds coming together, others laughed at the ludicrous idea that a human could walk on the moon…and live to tell about it.
Now, the concept of space travel–even within the fairly small limits that we’ve actually achieved–has become commonplace to a generation of people who’ve never been alive when the space program wasn’t a reality. That could be why so little attention among popular news has been granted to NASA’s attempts–very, very expensive attempts–at sending humans to Mars.
As part of its deep-space exploration project, the concept of human space travel has to be completely redesigned. Yes, Mars is simply that far away, and the orbital patterns that the planets adhere to means the closest proximity between Earth and Mars only happens every two years, and even then only for a narrow window of time. Everything NASA has used to safely send and retrieve astronauts had to be redesigned, down to the software that would make it all happen.
That software is proving to be quite problematic, too. Already 77% more than initial cost estimates predicted, the final bill for the software that will launch and control an SLS rocket and Orion capsule is expected to come in at a little over $200 million. Even more upsetting is the timeline: instead of having a finished version this summer, engineers are now saying it will be closer to fall of next year before there’s a working version.
Unfortunately, an internal audit of the status of this software once again proved something that has long plagued the organization, and that’s an unwillingness to bend. The audit, conducted by none other than NASA’s inspector general, concluded that the administration is essentially shooting itself in the foot with its own optimism, while commercial software would have been a much better option than writing the software from the ground up by splicing together previous NASA code.
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