[LukeB_UK]

Microsoft's bot (Tay) learned as people talked with it. People took advantage of that and basically attacked it with racist things which meant it ended up learning to be a racist.

[StavrosK]

Actually, IIRC someone had discovered a debug command, "repeat" or something like that. So people would just tell it to repeat offensive sentences.

[ljk]

offtopic, but how does someone "discover" it? by sheer luck?

[dorfsmay]

So we're rediscovering parenting via AI!

[Practicality]

I can see AI parent being a new career.

[JonnieCache]

I remember FYAD doing the same thing to an eliza implementation that had learning back in the day, in like 2004. Plus ca change...

[gohrt]

It's pretty well established that modern AI's main contribution is (a) massively larger datasets, (b) algorithms and technology to handle those massively larger datasets, (c) boring but important parameter tuning.

The core learning algorithms are not changing.