Can AI Turn Into a Real-Life Terminator?
Last Updated on November 5, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Harshmeet Singh Chandhok
Originally published on Towards AI.

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“We need to be careful about how we develop and use AI. We need to make sure that it is used for good and not for evil. We need to make sure that it is used to benefit humanity and not to harm it.”
— Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX
In 2016, Microsoft released a chatbot named Tay on Twitter, which was basically designed in a way that it would learn from the people who would interact with it, but it quickly became racist and offensive. Microsoft was forced to bring down Tay after only… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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