What could possibly go wrong? Elon Musk's AI set to try and learn the art of human conversation - by reading Reddit threads

It may not spring to mind as the first place you would turn to develop the art of conversation, but an AI firm backed by Elon Musk is hoping Reddit will help it's machine learn to converse. The OpenAI project is using a supercomputer known as a DGX-1 for its experiment, feeding popular Reddit threads to the AI for analysis, in the hope it will one day hold a conversation itself. However, the project follows a similar idea from Microsoft - which has to pull its learning chatbot after it began posting racist and offensive messages after just hours. OpenAI will feed popular Reddit threads to algorithms that have a probabilistic understanding of dialogue with the hopes it will one day hold a conversation itself. By feeding Reddit threads to DGX-1, it will hopefully read and learn a range of conversations faster than any other system has done before it, as conversations are filled with natural human language and commonly used slang.