Considering the age group in this day and time, this outcome does not surprise me in the least.

Taken in this context, did the programmers do a pretty accurate job of copying the process of learning to communicate?

I wonder if MSFT would consider sending her to the Gulch for training before going back to the real world.
Better to wait until after November?

I wonder if the bot would have been pulled if it had made comments such as:

"Obamacare is good."
"We need to be less selfish."
"The problem with public schools is we're not spending enough."
etc.

Based on my daily interactions with teenagers. It sounds like the AI would blend right in. Maybe they were just not prepared for the reality of what they are trying to create.

Totally agree.

Try it? What about SIRI or Cortana? How do they feel about this election/selection cycle?

"(It) has not learned to think and process the meaning before speaking..."

Just like todays kids. Action without consequence. A failure of Newtons third law as applied to data engineering - and sociology.

Here is an article where they explain why it went rogue, and pretty much seems to indict the current social structure. I think it also goes a long way to explain the college kids who freaked out over sidewalk scribbles...

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/w...

Right it's like in AS when Dagney would get so frustrated by the give up in a discussion by the counterparts declaration
of " oh well , who is John Galt?

That is interesting, because the medium is different, and YT has a lot of more specific information (i.e. a video has a specific topic content, even if it is just bashing a politician) and Twitter is just cramming snarky comments in a small space with no real context. Maybe that is their mistake, Twitter is missing contextual connections to a topic, it is random thoughts and opinions, which when aggregated, add up to a psychotic brew.

I was having a toss up deciding where to put it, only because I thought it was humorous to the extreme that MS thought they had created this wondrous tool that would learn and grow, and became a juvenile delinquent in 24 hours. So, if our collective children are exposed to the same material, is it any wonder they end up up the same? I wonder if she freaks out if she saw "Trump 2016" scrawled on the sidewalk....Could be a good Philosophical discussion.

Exactly. The AI was a summation of it's input. Seems it is not easy to learn from out contemporary's.

Garbage in garbage out.

This is the intellectual product of our education system and our so called entertainment industry . Rappers vile repugnant trash is revered. Lucifer is a star TV hero? Good vs Evil Evil seems to be taking a big lead. Truth is trash -- lies are the norm. WTF?

Imagine if it has based its learning on YouTube instead of Twitter!

Perhaps it is a commentary on how being "connected" can affect the minds of young naive inexperienced people who have grown up in a culture where people are often rewarded for lying, having no ethics and no integrity, and looting from people that entrusted them with fiduciary responsibility.

The bot had no parents as a role model. It was not taught (programmed) with any moral rules to follow. It was only taught to parrot what it heard, and has not learned to think and process the meaning before speaking.

thanks for posting, nick. Perhaps it belongs in Philosophy.