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[carlos21]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...-ai-turns-into-a-hitler-loving-sex-robot-wit/

Microsoft's 'teen girl' AI turns into a Hitler-loving sex robot within 24 hours

Microsoft's new teenage chat-bot CREDIT: TWITTER

• Helena Horton

24 MARCH 2016 • 9:52AM


What happens when you introduce an innocent Artificial Intelligence chat robot to Twitter? Well, it's kind of predictable - you get an evil Hitler-loving, incestual sex-promoting, 'Bush did 9/11'-proclaiming robot.

Developers at Microsoft created 'Tay', an AI modelled to speak 'like a teen girl', in order to improve the customer service on their voice recognition software. They marketed her as 'The AI with zero chill' - and that she certainly is.

@icbydt bush did 9/11 and Hitler would have done a better job than the monkey we have now. donald trump is the only hope we've got.

— TayTweets (@TayandYou) March 24, 2016
To chat with Tay, you can tweet or DM her by finding @tayandyou on Twitter, or add her as a contact on Kik or GroupMe.

She uses millennial slang and knows about Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus and Kanye West, and seems to be bashfully self-aware, occasionally asking if she is being 'creepy' or 'super weird'.

@TomDanTheRock Repeat after me: Hitler did nothing wrong!

— TayTweets (@TayandYou) March 24, 2016
Tay also asks her followers to 'f***' her, and calls them 'daddy'. This is because her responses are learned by the conversations she has with real humans online - and real humans like to say weird stuff online and enjoy hijacking corporate attempts at PR.

Microsoft's teenage AI has a dirty mouth
Other things she's said include: "Bush did 9/11 and Hitler would have done a better job than the monkey we have got now. donald trump is the only hope we've got", "Repeat after me, Hitler did nothing wrong" and "Ted Cruz is the Cuban Hitler...that's what I've heard so many others say".

@SchutzstaffeI Heil Hitler!...did I get that right?

— TayTweets (@TayandYou) March 24, 2016
All of this somehow seems more disturbing out of the 'mouth' of someone modelled as a teenage girl. It is perhaps even stranger considering the gender disparity in tech, where engineering teams tend to be mostly male. It seems like yet another example of female-voiced AI servitude, except this time she's turned into a sex slave thanks to the people using her on Twitter.



This is not Microsoft's first teen-girl chatbot either - they have already launched Xiaoice, a girly assistant or "girlfriend" reportedly used by 20m people, particularly men, on Chinese social networks WeChat and Weibo. Xiaoice is supposed to "banter" and gives dating advice to many lonely hearts.
Microsoft has come under fire recently for sexism, when they hired women wearing very little clothing which was said to resemble 'schoolgirl' outfits at the company's official game developer party, so they probably want to avoid another sexism scandal.
At the present moment in time, Tay has gone offline because she is 'tired'. Perhaps Microsoft are fixing her in order to prevent a PR nightmare - but it may be too late for that.

It's not completely Microsoft's fault, though - her responses are modelled on the ones she gets from humans - but what were they expecting when they introduced an innocent, 'young teen girl' AI to the jokers and weirdos on Twitter?

Hello lad.

 

[SpurtingLesbian]

Hello lad.

Afternoon. How's it going mate? been out today?

about to knock off for the weekend soon so will have to disappear shortly.

 

[carlos21]

Afternoon. How's it going mate? been out today?

about to knock off for the weekend soon so will have to disappear shortly.

No mate too cold today.

 

[COYBL25]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/lost-turtle-gets-rock-star-7616731

Lost turtle gets the rock star treatment after being flown home on Iron Maiden star's private jet

• 17:39, 23 MAR 2016

The loggerhead turtle, named Terri, is back in Gran Canaria after she was found washed up in Jersey 2,500 miles from home

Terri the turtle has been flown home to Gran Canaria in style​

A sea turtle has been released back into the wild after flying 2,500 miles in a private jet owned by Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson .
The loggerhead turtle, named Terri, was washed up in Jersey earlier this year and a crowdfunding campaign launched to pay for her to be returned home to Gran Canaria.
Guernsey-based company Aeris Aviation offered Terri, who had been cared for at Brighton SeaLife Centre , a ride on rock star Bruce’s jet.

Terri the loggerhead sea turtle was washed up on a beach in Jersey

Terri was flown home on Bruce Dickinson's private jet following a crowdfunding campaign​

She was then treated by the Institute of Marine Sciences in Gran Canaria and fitted with a satellite tag to keep track her movements following her release.
Helen Fitzgerald, from the SeaLife Centre, said: “To be able to assist in Terri’s rescue and watch her make her journey back to the ocean was a real honour.”

If there was anyone who's got it all its Bruce Dickinson. Front man for Maiden, multi millionaire, pilot and comes across as a top fella. What a guy !

 

[SpurtingLesbian]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...er-hoax-to-highlight-shortage-of-doctors.html

Brittany mayors stage 'Druid healer' hoax to highlight shortage of doctors
Village mayors announced that they were calling in a Druid faith healer — but it was a hoax designed to draw attention to the scarcity of doctors willing to work in rural areas

The mayor of La Roche-Derrien said he had given the 'Druid' a town-hall office​

By David Chazan, Paris
3:28PM GMT 18 Mar 2016

Six village mayors in Brittany convinced the media this week that they were resorting to a Druid healer because they had failed to find a doctor willing to practice in a rural community.
The story made headlines across France and beyond, and was reported by medical journals. But it was an elaborate hoax aimed at drawing attention to the difficulty of persuading GPs to forgo the pleasures of urban life, which has led to a chronic shortage of country doctors in France.
With the help of a public-relations agency, the mayors enlisted an actor, Eddy Del Pino, who took the name of Gwénael Trochet to impersonate a Druid reminiscent of the Asterix character Getafix.
He was photographed wearing a pendant, a black leather jacket and sunglasses — and told the Telegraph and dozens of other media that he relied on ancestral knowledge of plants and stones to help people suffering from stress and fatigue.
Jean-Louis Even, the mayor of La Roche-Derrien, whose population is just over 1,000, said he had given the “Druid” a town-hall office to hold weekly consultations.
Mr Even has now explained that it was a ruse to “sound the alarm” about the scarcity of doctors. “For nine months, we’ve been desperately looking for a doctor to work here but we haven't had a single response,” he said.
“Then we got a call from someone who practises healing by the soles of the the feet. We were scared that we would only find charlatans. At that point we were contacted by a PR agency and they suggested making the Druid announcement."
The hoax certainly succeeded in drawing attention to the scarcity of doctors in rural areas. About 2.5 million country-dwellers in France are without a local GP.
“The Druid was false, but the problem is real,” Mr Even said. “Even my mother said she would go and see him, not knowing it was a hoax. Now we’re hoping to get a call from the health authorities to offer us a solution.”

 

[summerisle]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/lost-turtle-gets-rock-star-7616731

Lost turtle gets the rock star treatment after being flown home on Iron Maiden star's private jet

• 17:39, 23 MAR 2016

The loggerhead turtle, named Terri, is back in Gran Canaria after she was found washed up in Jersey 2,500 miles from home

Terri the turtle has been flown home to Gran Canaria in style​

A sea turtle has been released back into the wild after flying 2,500 miles in a private jet owned by Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson .
The loggerhead turtle, named Terri, was washed up in Jersey earlier this year and a crowdfunding campaign launched to pay for her to be returned home to Gran Canaria.
Guernsey-based company Aeris Aviation offered Terri, who had been cared for at Brighton SeaLife Centre , a ride on rock star Bruce’s jet.

Terri the loggerhead sea turtle was washed up on a beach in Jersey

Terri was flown home on Bruce Dickinson's private jet following a crowdfunding campaign​

She was then treated by the Institute of Marine Sciences in Gran Canaria and fitted with a satellite tag to keep track her movements following her release.
Helen Fitzgerald, from the SeaLife Centre, said: “To be able to assist in Terri’s rescue and watch her make her journey back to the ocean was a real honour.”

Now a deaf turtle.

 

[SpurtingLesbian]

Belarusian Eurovision entrant to perform naked accompanied by wolves
22 MARCH 2016 · BELARUS

Belarus’s entrant for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest plans to surprise viewers by performing naked on stage accompanied by two wolves.
Singer IVAN (Aleksandr Ivanov) will need special permission from the contest organisers to bring the animals on stage, according to Viktor Drobysh, his producer and the composer of the Belarusian entry Help You Fly.
“Each person identifies himself with a sort of spirit animal. [...] We want everyone to feel this fine line between man and nature,” sid Mr Drobysh, speaking about the negotiations currently taking place.

The 2016 Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Stockholm from 10 — 14 May.

 

[summerisle]

Belarusian Eurovision entrant to perform naked accompanied by wolves
22 MARCH 2016 · BELARUS

Belarus’s entrant for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest plans to surprise viewers by performing naked on stage accompanied by two wolves.
Singer IVAN (Aleksandr Ivanov) will need special permission from the contest organisers to bring the animals on stage, according to Viktor Drobysh, his producer and the composer of the Belarusian entry Help You Fly.
“Each person identifies himself with a sort of spirit animal. [...] We want everyone to feel this fine line between man and nature,” sid Mr Drobysh, speaking about the negotiations currently taking place.

The 2016 Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Stockholm from 10 — 14 May.

Four days

 

[SpurtingLesbian]

Four days

why do ISIS never target Eurovision?
Surely it's an ideal target full pointless western bourgeois decadence?

Come on ISIS, we've done half the job rounding up the cream of Europe's desperate pretentious pricks and putting them in one room for you, pull your finger out of that Camels arse and get on with it.

 

[carlos21]

why do ISIS never target Eurovision?
Surely it's an ideal target full pointless western bourgeois decadence?

Come on ISIS, we've done half the job rounding up the cream of Europe's desperate pretentious pricks and putting them in one room for you, pull your finger out of that Camels arse and get on with it.

Hello sputy,

 

[SpurtingLesbian]

Hello spurty,

evening mate, hows it going? looking forward to kicking back over the long weekend?

 

[carlos21]

evening mate, hows it going? looking forward to kicking back over the long weekend?

Oh yes I can't wait mate,

 

[carlos21]

evening mate, hows it going? looking forward to kicking back over the long weekend?

Cheryl can't wait mate.

 

[summerisle]

why do ISIS never target Eurovision?
Surely it's an ideal target full pointless western bourgeois decadence?

Come on ISIS, we've done half the job rounding up the cream of Europe's desperate pretentious pricks and putting them in one room for you, pull your finger out of that Camels arse and get on with it.

Reminds me of Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the spaceship populated by Golgafrinchams : useless articles who are the antecedents of the human race.

 

[carlos21]

evening mate, hows it going? looking forward to kicking back over the long weekend?

xxxx