Lamp2 comments on What can we learn from Microsoft’s Tay, its inflammatory tweets, and its shutdown?

[Lamp2]

I though a bit about it, but I think Tay is basically a software version of a parrot that repeats back what it hears—I don’t think it has any commonsense knowledge or serious attempt to understand that tweets are about a world that exists outside of twitter. I.e it has no semantics

Well neither does image recognition software. Neither does Google’s search algorithm.