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Friday, January 11, 2013

"Watson couldn’t distinguish between polite language and profanity — which the Urban Dictionary is..."

“Watson couldn’t distinguish between polite language and profanity — which the Urban Dictionary is full of. Watson picked up some bad habits from reading Wikipedia as well. In tests it even used the word “bullshit” in an answer to a researcher’s query.”

- IBM’s Watson Memorized the Entire ‘Urban Dictionary,’ Then His Overlords Had to Delete It - The Atlantic (via thisistheverge)

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