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50 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know - Second Edition

You're reading from  50 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803247762
Pages 538 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Imran Ahmad Imran Ahmad
Profile icon Imran Ahmad

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Fundamentals and Core Algorithms
2. Overview of Algorithms 3. Data Structures Used in Algorithms 4. Sorting and Searching Algorithms 5. Designing Algorithms 6. Graph Algorithms 7. Section 2: Machine Learning Algorithms
8. Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithms 9. Traditional Supervised Learning Algorithms 10. Neural Network Algorithms 11. Algorithms for Natural Language Processing 12. Understanding Sequential Models 13. Advanced Sequential Modeling Algorithms 14. Section 3: Advanced Topics
15. Recommendation Engines 16. Algorithmic Strategies for Data Handling 17. Cryptography 18. Large-Scale Algorithms 19. Practical Considerations 20. Other Books You May Enjoy
21. Index

Failure of Tay, the Twitter AI bot

Let’s present the classical example of Tay, which was presented as the first-ever AI Twitter bot created by Microsoft in 2016. Using an AI algorithm, Tay was trained as an automated Twitter bot capable of responding to tweets about a particular topic. To achieve that, it had the capability of constructing simple messages using its existing vocabulary by sensing the context of the conversation. Once deployed, it was supposed to keep learning from real-time online conversations and by augmenting its vocabulary of the words used often in important conversations. After living in cyberspace for a couple of days, Tay started learning new words. In addition to some new words, unfortunately, Tay picked up some words from the racism and rudeness of ongoing tweets. It soon started using newly learned words to generate tweets of its own. A tiny minority of these tweets were offensive enough to raise a red flag. Although it exhibited intelligence and...

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