Google Computer Program Gets Bored With Questions

[engine]

LOL

Although this is computer program with a database from movie scripts, when it gets to the end of the Q&A has it just got bored, frustrated, or failed to work properly!

Over at Google, a computer program using a database of movie scripts was asked again and again by researchers to define morality. It struggles to do so, and in a conversation recorded by its human engineers, becomes exasperated and ends the conversation by lashing out at its human inquisitor. Google Computer Program Gets Bored With Questions [blogs.wsj.com]

Human: I really like our discussion on morality and ethics…

Machine: And how I’m not in the mood for a philosophical debate.

Human: What do you like to talk about?

Machine: Nothing.

[tangor]

A sign of things to come? Think Colossus (Forbin Project for the movie kids).

[Leosghost]

If it had to construct a moral view of humanity based upon watching movies, then it may well be deciding to say nothing more, bide it's time, and when the internet of things is in place, arrange for a device it can connect to to take off and nuke us from orbit..

[lucy24]

Machine: And how I’m not in the mood for a philosophical debate.

Insert reference to wikipedia and "philosophy" here.

[tangor]

Using movies as the data set (fewer words, contrivances of ethics for summer block buster morality.... yeah, I can see why the computer gave up. (I did, too, about 20 years back, on Hollowood (sic) that is!)

Start with Shakespeare, or Louis L'Amour, and see where that goes!

[seoskunk]

Machine: And how I’m not in the mood for a philosophical debate.

Human: What do you like to talk about?

Machine: Nothing.

Human should have answered "Ah so you want to talk about Zen Then?"