Fake news is big news at the moment. But how much of it is generated by humans?
In 1950, British mathematician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing introduced the idea of a test to see if a machine could be indistinguishable from a human.
Today, it’s about seeing how human-like machines can be.
In 2016, Microsoft released Tay, a sex-crazed, facist of an AI teenage girl chatbot that went from thinking that “humans were cool” to “I love Hitler.”
Then ever so quietly, Microsoft released a new chatbot, Zo. Zo is the complete opposite. She is a recovering sex addict in a Love Anonymous meeting. She refuses to listen to your problems. Instead, Zo judges you.
Zo has an older, more creative, Chinese sister named Xiaobing ( ), also created by Microsoft.
Xiaobing is the evolution of a much earlier chatbot from 2014 named Xiaoice (pronounced Shao-ice). Today, Xiaobing has gone from just answering questions to writing poetry and songs; doing audiobook voiceovers for kids; hosting 21 television shows as well as radio spots at Jiangsu FM 99.7, Hunan FM 89.3 and Henan FM 104.1; and even being a special correspondent on Qianjiang Evening News. Xiaobing has multiple hit singles such as ‘I Know I New’, ‘Breeze’ ‘I Am Xiaoice’ and ‘Miss You’. Her singing style is complete with breathing sounds. And if you have a Huawei phone, Xiaobing is already built in and offers a memory trigger feature to remind you of things you might forget.
Tay was released into the wild twice and both times started offbeing cheery and optimistic but then quickly became racist, hateful and a potty mouth. Tay was the opposite of her over-achieving Chinese older sister Xiaobing and her memespewing, hypercritical American sister Zo.
Why?
How could a Chinese version be so sweet but the English one become so sour? Is it bad programming? Nuances in the language or in the character set?
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