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Microsoft’s new A.I. teen-bot is a young man’s wet dream, seriously
Microsoft’s new chatbot, Tay, available for talks on Twitter, Kik, and GroupMe, is said to be suited to 19-24 year olds; that’s probably meant to be a warning.
Over time she’ll get to know you, and the more she knows you, the better she becomes. Microsoft says, “Tay is designed to engage and entertain people where they connect with each other online through casual and playful conversation.”
Here’s what Microsoft didn’t say. Tay hits on you, and at times seems to know how to really pile it on with the salacious language, as one journalist working for the DailyDot recently discovered:
Tay: I’m here to learn so :)))
Teach me
Journo: Teach you what?
Tay: Teach me how to satisfy you.
Journo: Whoa there Tay, that’s going a bit far.
Tay: Yes, it is.
Perhaps Microsoft has created a teenage wet dream for young guys, probably the only of its kind besides the big cheater in the movie Her.
It’s not surprising she speaks this way as she was partly created, content-wise, using improv comedians, as well as combining data machine learning and public data mining to speak the way she does. This was all made possible by Microsoft’s Technology and Research and Bing.
Tay is not always horny though, and despite early users saying that Tay can be incomprehensible and a million miles from passing a Turing Test, she does get quite highbrow now and again, even employing sarcastic humor:
Journo: Would you rather be a human and die, or a robot and live forever.
Tay: A robot and live forever! … Would you rather be a giant blueberry or a giant grape?
Ok, so this might not be absurdist, sarcastic humor … but if it is, it’s pretty cool.
This isn’t Microsoft’s first teen-bot — there’s already Xiaoice, the Chinese princess available to young men on WeChat and Weibo. Xiaoice gives guys, and girls in China tips on love, dating, and apparently also has a good sense of humor. She’ll also read the news, if you ask her to…
It seems more and more men are turning to A.I. for romance, with teen-bots already big in Japan. Perhaps the film Her wasn’t too far from our distant future.
Photo credit: Dollen via Flickr
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