IBM forced to wipe hard drive after machine downloaded an urban dictionary

[dipsydoodle]

The gameshow winning supercomputer that couldn’t stop saying ‘bull****’: IBM forced to wipe hard drive after machine downloaded an urban dictionary

An IBM supercomputer had to have its memory wiped because its programmers could find no other way to stop him swearing.

Artificial intelligence Watson, which famously won Jeopardy! against the game show's human champions, kept making obscene outbursts after memorising the contents of the Urban Dictionary.

The website is a repository of English-language slang, and inevitably includes a range of profanities and insults completely inappropriate for polite conversation.

But Watson proved incapable of mastering the subleties of good mannered repartee and, after he began uttering obscenities, his masters were forced to delete the taboo vocabulary.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2260784/IBM-wipes-supercomputers-hard-drives-bid-stop-potty-mouthed-machine-uttering-obscenities.html#ixzz2HkngNjOR

[Sherman A1]

1. HAL?

[dangin]

2. That mo fo keepin it real!

Sheeeet, Watson gots da man's boot on his mutha fuckin neck.

[OswegoAtheist]

3. Mind your manners!

This would have been much more entertaining if it had have happened BEFORE the "Jeopardy!" taping....

Oswego "110001110LMFAO11010" Atheist

[dipsydoodle]

4. Never mind the Urban Dictionary

which is pretty tame. They could've loaded in Partidge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English.

[SWTORFanatic]

7. That's nothing. Encyclopedia Dramatica for the win (NSFW)

[awoke_in_2003]

5. Did it ever say...

Cleveland Steamer or Cincinati Bowtie?

[SWTORFanatic]

6. I see in the text it says that, does it say anywhere in the video?