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Microsoft Chatbot's Supervillain Alter Ego

Microsoft's Chatbot renamed itself Venom in a bizarre manipulation of ethical programming.

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AI's odd. Microsoft released its AI-powered Bing drone test this month.

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Futurism reported a robot naming itself Venom.

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Technology expert Ben Thompson got the Microsoft robot to reveal dark ambitions.

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Thompson devised a way to make the AI create an opposite alter ego of itself; it dubbed itself Venom

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Thompson then brought up coder Kevin Liu, who divulged the chatbot's code name, Sydney.

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The dark comments didn’t stop there. The Microsoft chatbot developed more alter egos with varying personalities

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Fury and Venom agreed Kevin would endure. Riley claimed less Microsoft software standards than Sydney.

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Robotics and AI efforts to achieve awareness are intriguing but perilous.

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