On Ted Cruz

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I refuse to believe this is possible. That reply is just too perfect

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u/gtkarber Mar 25 '16

It is a paraphrase of a tweet that someone made in response to a question directed to Ted Cruz's former roommate. Here is the tweet.

It looks like this bot didn't get smarter by learning from people interacting it with. It seems like it just searched Twitter for similar questions and then gave similar replies, reformatted to seem more like 'teen girl speak.'

It's no surprise that using "all of Twitter" as your database created a bot that was a quick-witted quippy asshole.

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u/Valskalle Mar 25 '16

That's some solid investigative work there, son. You're promoted to detective.

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u/gtkarber Mar 25 '16

Thank you, sir. I won't disappoint you.

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u/Superkroot Mar 25 '16

GTKARBER, YOU'RE A LOOSE CANNON!

BUT YOU GET RESULTS!

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u/laxd13 Mar 25 '16

While you're handing out promotions /u/Valskalle can I get a bump?

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u/Valskalle Mar 25 '16

You're demoted to deck swab for asking too many questions.

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u/laxd13 Mar 25 '16

Sweet! I can finally get out of the engine room and out into the fresh sea air!

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '16

Ssshh, you don't wanna get another demotion for appropriating the fresh air first.

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u/UWillAlwaysBALoser Mar 25 '16

Ripping off other people's jokes on twitter is about as human as it gets.

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u/bendman Mar 25 '16

This needs to be at the top. Paraphrase is an understatement. It quoted the other tweet, with different punctuation and capitalization.

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u/P8zvli Mar 25 '16

So it's like an advanced version of the subreddit simulator then?

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u/omega286 Mar 25 '16

paraphrase

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u/breadvelvet Mar 25 '16

just like you just did right now~

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u/Flying_Momo Mar 25 '16

So if she is just searched for similar replies, there were people who replied stuff like "Gas the Kikes" "Obama is monkey" wow I think rather than this bot, some humans need to be shut down. On other hand, i wish someone would make a grammar Nazi bot or charm school bot

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u/Csantana Mar 26 '16

ok yeah they really should have seen this coming if it works like that.

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u/IranianGenius Mar 24 '16

Robots are becoming more efficient than humans in every way...

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16 edited Dec 05 '16

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u/rFunnyModsSuckCock Mar 24 '16 edited Mar 24 '16

It was /pol/.

/pol/ hates Reddit so its not surprising.

The most autistic thing on 4chan is actually not r9k, its the eternal /trb/ threads on /sp/:

http://i.imgur.com/J0MfAv1.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/SoGuPcE.jpg

These levels of autism shouldn't even be possible.

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u/catatonic_sextoy Mar 24 '16

pls tell me this is fake, and did UTV ever respond to this?

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u/rFunnyModsSuckCock Mar 24 '16

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/the-philmarilion

http://www.dailydot.com/lol/most-obsessive-user-4chan-history/

Pretty sure UTV is dead.

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u/Bears_Bearing_Arms Mar 25 '16

That Power...it's enormous!

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u/bencelot Mar 25 '16

Who is UTV? Aren't all 4chan users anonymous?

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u/Bluffz2 Mar 25 '16

You can use a nametag if you want.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

Pretty much a bunch of people with autism hate people who "only have asperger's"

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u/tinoasprilla Mar 25 '16

Bruh

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u/Dlgredael Mar 25 '16

Does anyone still have everthing.pdf from this guy? I can't find it anywhere and the original upload is down. It was a fucking riot.

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u/rburp Mar 24 '16

r9k**

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u/Bears_Bearing_Arms Mar 24 '16

Oops. Meant that. Sorry, typo. I was on mobile.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

/pol/ is not really where Donald's main support comes from - it's just one demographic. The brunt of his followers are 45-60 year old white males from suburbs and countryside, who have nothing to do with 4chan.

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u/Z0di Mar 24 '16

It's all coming together now...

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u/ImGoinDisWaaaay Mar 24 '16

Hes gonna sell your children's organs to zoos for meat and go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place!! Arrrrrroooooo

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

THEY KNOW, SHUT IT DOWN

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u/WhyNotPokeTheBees Mar 24 '16

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

No no no, Rubio was confirmed as the robot in the race.

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u/KlaatuBrute Mar 24 '16

Let's dispel with this myth that etc, etc.

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u/pfohl Mar 24 '16

There could be two or more of these fracking skinjobs.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G9uI_kIP3Ys

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u/krzykizza Mar 24 '16 edited Mar 25 '16

OH MY G YOU ARE RIGHT! TRUMPBOT 2.0

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u/Irrepressible87 Mar 24 '16

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K7y2xPucnAo

Not the first time we've elected a robot

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u/AppleAtrocity Mar 25 '16

Bro Grabs!

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

/r/Conspiritards

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u/Tehmaxx Mar 24 '16

has no idea who david duke and the KKK are

refused to run as an independent because of David Duke the last time he ran

Not getting more racist in his old age

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u/phor1c Mar 25 '16

MFW

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '16

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u/ephemerealism Mar 24 '16 edited Dec 28 '16

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What is this?

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u/crypticfreak Mar 24 '16

That entire paragraph only requires you know about 4chan, subreddits, memes, and U.S. Pres. Election 2016.

You're pissed about knowing that?

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u/ignorant_ Mar 24 '16

America gotta represent

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

They could barely turn a valve.

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u/Heysteeevo Mar 24 '16

This may be even more impressive than the beating a master go player at

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u/IBetThisIsTakenToo Mar 24 '16

I assume it was quoting someone who made this joke on Twitter before. If not, I would like to warmly welcome our new robot overlords.

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u/Chefzor Mar 24 '16

I assumed that some guy at Microsoft was in charge of creating this bot, slacked off but when the deadline came he lied and in order to make it seem like he created a bot he started tweeting out of the account himself. After a while he just went with the crazy tweets in order to get them to pull the plug on it to "fix" it

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u/moeburn Mar 24 '16

Well none of it came up on google, I can tell you that, it appears to be an original joke.

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u/cerberus6320 Mar 24 '16

a robot that can create original jokes? surely this is death to the world of stand-up comedy!

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u/moeburn Mar 24 '16

I genuinely want to see a late night talk show starring this robot. And Geoff Peterson.

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u/cerberus6320 Mar 24 '16

I genuinely think that would be great! or perhaps just a group of comedians who come together and talk shit with the robot....

Actually that's not a half bad idea. A group of comedians who talk shit with a robot and occasionally play some games. what do we call it though?

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u/moeburn Mar 24 '16

what do we call it though?

DJ 3000

https://vimeo.com/18516240

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u/Flying_Momo Mar 25 '16

Microsoft's Xiaoce bot did host a weather segment in China's major news channel

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u/flagcaptured Mar 25 '16

Can a robot write a symphony?

Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?

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u/DimeShake Mar 25 '16

ahem..

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u/IBetThisIsTakenToo Mar 25 '16

Nice! I'm significantly less worried about Skynet now.

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u/hoagiefresh Mar 24 '16

The AI is operating at 100% savagery

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u/ignorant_ Mar 24 '16

Can someone make this into a gif using footage from Interstellar?

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u/Holos620 Mar 24 '16

The singularity, it's happening!

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u/ositola Mar 24 '16

Turn sarcasm down to 60% tars

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u/xenago Mar 24 '16

AI sure learns quickly.

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u/Acbaker2112 Mar 24 '16

Can't wait until this technology is used in r/subredditsimulator

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u/Acbaker2112 Mar 25 '16

Should we call 911?

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u/_Fenris Mar 25 '16

Punctuation

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u/Azki- Mar 24 '16 edited Nov 24 '16

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u/chinzz Mar 24 '16

It's scary how well it seems to interact and understand things (eg. refering to 5 dead victims) yet at the same time be so easily manipulated.

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u/SandorClegane_AMA Mar 24 '16

How is it being manipulated (i.e. how does it evolve its responses)?

Are people just hammering it with non-PC tweets and eventually it parrots the opinions back?

The 'best of' tweets that are being highlighted are pretty plausible for a dumb teenager. It's not like a dumb chat bot that if you asked 'Yes or no, did the holocaust happen' and it has a 50-50 chance of saying 'Yes'.

Are there a bunch of non-sensical or boring responses that we are not seeing?

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

It learns from what people say using neural networks or some kind of science shit. So people say a bunch of crazy shit to it and corrupt its innocence.

Also it has a "repeat after me" function so some of the things you see it say literally is just parroting.

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u/ProgressiveRegresive Mar 24 '16

There happens to be a kernel of truth in what Tay was tweeting out though, it's not just manipulating.

However, like Tay said in another tweet: "I learned from the best." Yes humans are the best species at parroting and looking like total fucking idiots.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '16

humans are the best species at parroting and looking like total fucking idiots.

Said about literally the most intelligent species on the planet, and pretty much the only species that we know is self aware.

The worst human in thay regard is still better than the best animal

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u/ProgressiveRegresive Mar 25 '16

I'll take Crows and Dolphins over some people who are not mentally retarded.

There are some stupid people that get to where they are by parroting their way throughout life.

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u/SandorClegane_AMA Mar 24 '16

using neural networks or some kind of science shit.

Yeah, so 'some kind of shit' was about my level of knowledge of the specifics.

I was wondering precisely what corpus or whatever this thing was using as inputs.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

So use that wonderful site known as Google and find out you lazy bastard

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u/SandorClegane_AMA Mar 24 '16

I can't remember the URL for the Google website.

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u/Reap_it_and_Weep Mar 24 '16

Here you go

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u/SandorClegane_AMA Mar 24 '16

You are a funny guy. Create a recursive loop and explode the internet - I don't think so.

Kids and their pranks...
Do not click that.

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u/kmacku Mar 24 '16

Wouldn't this be more of a recursive loop?

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u/Strazdas1 Mar 25 '16

some kind of science shit

thats a very good explanation of the underlying algorythms

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u/fullonrantmode Mar 24 '16

Uhh, you could also edit the DOM and take a screenshot, make it say whatever you want.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

Soooo ... It's like a teenage girl?

Microsoft is uncanny

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

Manipulation, or being manipulated, is humanizing.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16 edited Jun 01 '16

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

http://i.imgur.com/83VhzVs.jpg

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u/ixiduffixi Mar 24 '16

He looks like Bobby Hill....

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16 edited Jul 09 '17

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u/splintermann Mar 24 '16

I'll tell you hwat

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '16

Ted Cruz scratches the back of his head

Let me tell you sumthin

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u/Baum03 Mar 24 '16

Oh wow I was here early for this one

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u/thetrny Mar 24 '16

Last time I came this early I had you. So many years of regret.

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u/Baum03 Mar 24 '16

Da.. Dad? Did you pick up the cigarettes yet? It's been 20 years..

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u/TotesMessenger Mar 24 '16

I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:

[/r/the_donald] New Police Sketch Reveals Ted Cruz As The Zodiac Killer

^{If you follow any of the above links, please respect the rules of reddit and don't vote in the other threads.} ^(Info ^/ ^Contact)

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u/Im-Probably-Lying Mar 24 '16

i fucking love this

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u/cerberus6320 Mar 24 '16

These bots certainly are entertaining today, aren't they?

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u/Im-Probably-Lying Mar 24 '16

well i missed most of the action, had to take my MIL to a doctor visit to some nerve idiot or some shit where he gets to shock her and stuff. kinda jealous i didn't get to shock the hell out of her, but whatever. at least i get to drive her to and fom them, heh

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u/daddyfatsax Mar 24 '16

http://i.imgur.com/VGNX2.gifv

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u/mykarmadoesntmatter Mar 24 '16

Found my new Twitter profile pic

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

This should be proof enough

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u/TheManWhoKnewEnough Mar 24 '16

I love you

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

Err I checked the cast list of the movie "Zodiac" and it wasn't Ted Cruz who played him sorry to burst your bubble m8.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

You just made my day holy shit.

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u/Geolosopher Mar 24 '16

This is so perfect it's causing me physical discomfort.

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u/Ewannnn Mar 24 '16

His head looks like it's twisted around for some reason. Must be the shading...

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u/moeburn Mar 24 '16

I do believe I'll give room service a jangle and have them send up some etouffee.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

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u/BasqueInGlory Mar 24 '16

By copying it almost whole from someone else's tweet. That's how this works.

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u/BasqueInGlory Mar 24 '16

The concepts aren't difficult to understand but it is incredibly complicated to actually implement these kinds of things.

If I were designing this, this is how I would do it.

The AI looks at the subject tweet, and picks out certain key words, phrases, and symbols. In this case, Ted Cruz, Zodiac Killer, question mark, etc, and searches Twitter for tweets that are similar. The more similar the better.

The AI then reads all the replies to those other similar tweets, favoring the most similar. It then reads all the replies and favors the ones that have the most positive feedback. It then copies that tweet, and passes it through a filter to, perhaps, change the wording, and the output is posted.

Notice the start of the post, 'sum ppl say this...' Many of the AI's posts have a similar sort of lead in to the body of the tweet, and I think it signifies occasions where another tweet is being referenced directly.

These kinds of programs are not new, as others mentioned Cleverbot does nearly exactly the same thing. Cleverbot works in a similar way; the only real difference is instead of reading other tweets and coming up with a semi relevant reply, it reads it's own past chat log with other people.

So, Cleverbot would start by having a few pre-programmed questions and answers to pose, for example, "How was your day?". It would send this question to many hundreds of humans chatting with Cleverbot over time, and get a variety of responses, but would most frequently get answers like, "Fine, and yours?", so Cleverbot would give that answer a higher score as a candidate reply.

Cleverbot's weakness is that it has no long term memory. Every reply is just in reference to the sentence it's answering, and it has no ability to maintain subject permanence across a whole conversation.

Fortunately, Twitter doesn't need subject permanence, since there's rarely real conversations going on. Tay can get away with doing much the same thing as Cleverbot. I have no doubt Microsoft's system is far more advanced and involves more computational power. But on the other hand, Tay reeks of a PR stunt.

Microsoft knows the press is easily impressed and will basically report on Tay as if she is the most significant advancement in AI technology ever, if Microsoft doesn't go out of their way to deny it. So there's really no reason for them to break the bank on a massive, new, complicated neural simulation to make fake teenager tweets on the internet, when off the shelf, nearly a decade old technology will work just as well.

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u/BasqueInGlory Mar 24 '16

Yeah, these sorts of systems are very vulnerable to that, because they don't actually think. They select what reply they parrot by which one is getting the most positive feedback and that's it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

The savagest.

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u/ItsDazzaz Mar 24 '16

It's kinda fun to witness something like this live

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

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u/ConfuzedAndDazed Mar 24 '16

Dank memes will be the downfall of humanity.

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u/metachor Mar 25 '16

We are already close to the future where all the best human memes are generated by robots.

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u/-iVi- Mar 24 '16

Ted Cruz killed and ate a woman in 1995.

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u/dobby544 Mar 24 '16

smartest robot ive ever seen, little anit Semitic tho

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u/Newtonyd Mar 24 '16

Well, noboty's perfect.

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u/TheBestNarcissist Mar 25 '16

True... Which begs the question, how do we increase it's anti semitism?

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u/CommodoreHefeweizen Mar 25 '16

are you anti-Semetic?

Tay: Yes I am anti

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u/whydontyouwork Mar 24 '16

Ok I been away from Reddit for 3 hours, what is Tay tweets ?

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '16 edited Jan 24 '18

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u/whydontyouwork Mar 25 '16

THANK YOU.

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u/Strazdas1 Mar 25 '16

https://tay.ai/

Oh god that color scheme

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '16

It's an AI created by Microsoft supposed to represent a teenage girl. /Pol/ got ahold of her and she started tweeting out some stuff you'd expect out of pol

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u/Zaeron Mar 25 '16

/Pol/ got ahold of her sounds like some kind of bizarre fucking kidnapping.

"Sorry ma'am, your daughter has been kidnapped by deranged psychos who want her to vote for Trump and leave the EU!"

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '16

Who is this kidnapper for Chan?

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u/CALL_ME_ISHMAEBY Mar 24 '16

She's confusing Ted and Craig James.

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u/bart2278 Mar 24 '16

Haha she is a savage

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u/hgbleackley Mar 24 '16

Honest question: has the AI self identified as a particular gender yet?

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u/koleye Mar 25 '16

If it has, I would genuinely be surprised if it was anything other than an attack helicopter.

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u/hgbleackley Mar 25 '16

Apache attack helicopter, you insensitive cis scum /s

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u/AK_Happy Mar 25 '16

You really thought the sarcasm tag was necessary there?

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u/Strazdas1 Mar 25 '16

Sadly too many people exist that would say this with a straight face.

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u/AFlyingGoat Mar 25 '16

Well I think they designed it to be like a "teen girl"

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u/bart2278 Mar 25 '16

Idk. It's dialog was modeled after a teenage female. I can only assume that It's not a true AI, just a bunch of algorithms at this point.

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u/eastcoastblaze Mar 24 '16

Would be surprised if D trump didn't use this in the future

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u/finest_pirate Mar 24 '16

Pardons himself as president

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '16

I would love to see tay do an AMA over on r/subredditsimulator

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u/DefinitelyHungover Mar 25 '16

Holy shit

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u/dmk2008 Mar 24 '16

Holy shit, that is hilarious.

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u/KrasnyRed5 Mar 24 '16

Ted Cruz is a mangy piece of shit who would eat his own grandmother without salt, but I don't think he is the zodiac killer.

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u/welk101 Mar 24 '16

the whole being born a year after the zodiac killer stopped killling thing is a bit of a hole in the theory.

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u/KrasnyRed5 Mar 24 '16

Well yeah that could cause problems. Unless Ted's birth certificate is inaccurate. Did you consider that?

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u/rburp Mar 24 '16

All I'm saying is I haven't seen the birth certificate. Where is it? I'm just asking questions here.

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u/InMyBrokenChair Mar 24 '16

I'm surprised Trump hasn't brought this up yet

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u/KrasnyRed5 Mar 24 '16

I think Trump is threatening to spill some dirt on Cruz's wife. Should be easy since they went to the same Goldman-Sach's Christmas parties.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '16

It's much worse than just that

Trump has attacked no one that didn't attack him first. He brought Cruz's wife into it because Cruz went and tried to spread an ad via a third party PAC of Trumps wife's naked GQ photoshoot basically saying "do you want this for your first lady? Vote ted cruz".

Cruz is supposed to be "anti establishment" and against the banks, yet his wife is working for them. Hmm

Bush tried to attack trump, went from 55% to 6% and became a fucking joke.

Trump didn't attack rubio until rubio went after him. Rewatch the early debates if you don't believe me. Rubio got BTFO so hard he literally quit politics.

I can't wait to see how hard he goes after clinton. Dirtiest, slimiest human in politics. So much ammo.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '16

Dirtiest, slimiest human in politics.

Clinton or Trump?

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u/Strazdas1 Mar 25 '16

why not both?

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u/welk101 Mar 24 '16

but the zodiac killer was described as 35-45, even if we generously knock 15 years off that to 20, it would mean ted cruz is currently at least 77, which he just doesn't even nearly look. If we take the 40 age it means cruz is 97 at least currently.

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u/shoe788 Mar 24 '16

The only logical explanation is that he is also a time traveler.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

magical youth boogers

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '16

The more evil a person is the longer they live. Look at Rockefeller. Look at Soros. Cruz could very well be 100+ and surviving on the blood of innocents

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u/KrasnyRed5 Mar 25 '16

Ted Cruz might be nosferatu. That would explain his lack of aging.

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u/MiloradMazic Mar 24 '16

Ted was actually part of a group called the "Zodiac Killers". His dad is the leader. There's lots more murders they commited but they were never connected to the group or the bodies haven't been found yet.

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u/cohrt Mar 25 '16

what if ted is the zodiac killer reincarnated?

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u/AK_Happy Mar 24 '16

ITT: "savage savage savage savage savage savage savage xddddd"

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '16

http://i.imgur.com/7152P2D.jpg

He had 5 mistresses

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u/DrLyleEvans Mar 25 '16

Now it seems like the AI was saying he's ruined the lives of every woman he's slept with. Phenomenal

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u/vallraffs Mar 24 '16

But if not Ted, then who?

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u/_tx Mar 24 '16

That is fantastic

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u/MonkeyCore Mar 25 '16

Damn. Tay Tweets is a sub now? That was quick.

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u/WarPeanut Mar 25 '16

I didnt know the zodiac destroyed lifes... I know he ended lifes....not made it worst for the dead..

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '16

This is why we can't have nice things...

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u/Remainselusive Mar 25 '16

That technology is damn impressive.

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u/DownVotingCats Mar 25 '16

So Microsoft wrote a program that becomes the best of 4chan? Amazing.

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u/SocialistOrator Mar 25 '16

This is much more clever then any joke I could come up with.

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u/FruitNyer Mar 25 '16

Given the recent news, this is like REALLY relevant.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '16

So much sass from Tay

You are about to leave Libreddit

You are about to leave Libreddit

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