AI researcher had to remove basic grammar tools to get software to understand Donald Trump

The developers of a speech recognition bot assigned to analyze the public statements of politicians hit a major stumbling block when it tried to make sense of Donald Trump. Built by a tech startup called FactSquared, the bot AI was assigned to go through more than 11 million words Trump has spoken or tweeted since 1976--in interviews, campaign speeches, media appearances, and social media posts. According to FactSquared's CEO Bill Frischling, the bot failed to understand Trump's speeches until he brought in a specialist to strip out all of the bot's grammar and syntax coding. The tech startup FactSquared created an AI bot to try and catalog and analyze Donald Trump's public appearances and interviews, but they were so incoherent and rambling the bot actually crashed. 'It was still trying to punctuate it like it was English, versus trying to punctuate it like it was Trump,' Frischling told The LA Times.