Microsoft Caption Bot Has Identity Issues, Gives Hitler The Cold Shoulder

Microsoft has been at the forefront of the machine-learning craze, having developed demos that are both neat and useful. About a year ago, the company released a tool that took a guess at your age, and just this past fall, it created a tool to help identify your emotions. The company has even developed a solution that can give a computer a sense of humor. There’s seemingly no limit to where machine-learning can take us. Not all in this machine-learning realm can be perfect, though. Just last month, Microsoft had to pull a Twitter bot it called “Tay” from the internet after people managed to manipulate its “thoughts” for the worse. In no time, Tay became racist and sex-crazed, and we’re pretty confident that Microsoft didn’t see that coming. Given…


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