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Tag: Artificial Intelligence

Accountability and the Challenge of AI

What can a robot teach us about accountability? Quite a lot, it turns out. A recent op-ed in the British newspaper The Guardian, provocatively entitled A Robot Wrote this Entire Article. Are You Scared Yet, Human?, addressed that timeless sci-fi scenario: machines rising up against humanity. The newspaper’s editors asked a cutting-edge language generator. GPT-3, to convince us all that humanity has nothing to fear from robots. The article makes fascinating reading. I will leave

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Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Accountable

Microsoft created Tay, an artificial intelligence (AI) based chatbot, to communicate through a twitter account. Tay learned from the people who chatted with it. The more conversation Tay encountered the smarter it got. The only problem is that in less than 24 hours Tay evolved into an anti-Semitic, racist member of the Internet community.

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