IBM's Watson Memorized the Entire 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic
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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.Ultimately, Brown's 35-person team developed a filter to keep Watson from swearing and scraped the Urban Dictionary from its memory.
It's really hard to teach a machine under what contexts a word is appropriate.
10:28 PM Jan 10 2013