Machines Media: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Media - MediaShift

"Boyfriend Maker," an app that allowed users to create and chat with a virtual "boyfriend" was at the top of the App store in Asian markets and was rated #1 in Japan, the Daily Dot had reported. The app used Artificial Intelligence that allowed it to learn language from its users. Within months, it was pulled from the app store when its chat responses became racist, sexist and sometimes even violent. "It was horrible," according to Hilary Mason, the CEO and founder of Fast Forward Labs. She spoke about the app at a media and tech conference recently to illustrate the point that much of the work humans have done around machine learning and artificial intelligence has been done outside the mainstream tech community.