Poor Software QA Is Root Cause of TAY-Fail (Microsoft's AI Twitter Bot)
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Poor Software QA Is Root Cause of TAY-Fail (Microsoft's AI Twitter Bot)
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Re: Poor Software QA Is Root Cause of TAY-Fail (Microsoft's AI Twitter Bot)
#2Marketing PR and hubris is the root cause.
M$ could have easily put out Tay v0 anonymously.
Re: Poor Software QA Is Root Cause of TAY-Fail (Microsoft's AI Twitter Bot)
#3Marketing PR and hubris is the root cause. M$ could have easily put out Tay v0 anonymously.
If you put something like that out anonymously, realistically you lose control over when it becomes public that you're behind it.
Re: Poor Software QA Is Root Cause of TAY-Fail (Microsoft's AI Twitter Bot)
#4Marketing PR and hubris is the root cause. M$ could have easily put out Tay v0 anonymously.
That's the bit I don't understand - or rather I think they were playing with the bot already and trying to jump on the hype train after AlphaGo so pushed it out in a rush to try and get some column inches.
Re: Poor Software QA Is Root Cause of TAY-Fail (Microsoft's AI Twitter Bot)
#5Yeah, it's astounding to me that they didn't have a "don't respond to queries containing X" master blacklist. It's one of the first things you do when you have a publicly facing content generator like this.
Re: Poor Software QA Is Root Cause of TAY-Fail (Microsoft's AI Twitter Bot)
#6Marketing PR and hubris is the root cause. M$ could have easily put out Tay v0 anonymously.
If you put something like that out anonymously, realistically you lose control over when it becomes public that you're behind it.
They could have chucked it in some IRC channel and nobody would have batted an eye. Just another run of the mill chat bot.
Re: Poor Software QA Is Root Cause of TAY-Fail (Microsoft's AI Twitter Bot)
#7Marketing PR and hubris is the root cause. M$ could have easily put out Tay v0 anonymously.
They can still do it. Just release it under another pseudonym and let it free for a few months before announcing it again with a PR blitz based around the different results from Tay.
Re: Poor Software QA Is Root Cause of TAY-Fail (Microsoft's AI Twitter Bot)
#8I for one don't think of it as a fail. I haven't laughed this hard in a while. And in a way it was a commentary on the internet culture.
Re: Poor Software QA Is Root Cause of TAY-Fail (Microsoft's AI Twitter Bot)
#9How do we know that QA didn't report the issues? QA reporting a bug and that bug being fixed are two different things right?
Re: Poor Software QA Is Root Cause of TAY-Fail (Microsoft's AI Twitter Bot)
#10Considering they have bots like this in other countries with zero issues I'm not surprised they thought it would be fine. But they already came out and said it was a failure and the reasons why. This article seems largely unnecessary and equivalent to beating a dead horse with a stick.