These days its Audis you have to worry about.
There are reasons besides the patriarchy or “female servitude” to have a programmed female voice. My Dad was a test pilot during the days when voice alerts where being developed for aircraft, and there were valid reasons for female voiced warnings then. For one thing, the voice was different than all of the southern male voices that were coming over the radio, which means that it got noticed. Dad always said there were actually a host of psychological reasons why a female voice was effective in a high stress situation. like a subconscious calming effect. This may not really relate to the Microsoft AI, but I think it is wrong to assume that using a female voice for such things is always done for the worst reasons.
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It’s not so much that Tay offended, it’s that she offended in a way that’s not au courant with the Zeitgeist.
What is needed is a way to make sure that if she offends in future, she won’t offend anyone who really counts.
I suggest that pre-release work for Tay 2.0 should include a month’s intensive drill with Andrea Dworkin essays and crunk lyrics.
But is it the Clippy we deserve right now?
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Um… we’re not talking about an awkwardly phrased joke that kinda might be racial due to the complexities of teaching a robot semantics. I’m pretty sure that your creation senselessly yelling “Heil Hitler!” at the top of its metaphorical lungs indicates a failure at the basic experiment that necessitates starting over.
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Is Clippy even the droid we’re looking for?
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