History ArtificialStupidity / RealLife

* In TheNew20s, advances in AI technlogy have allowed it to create illustrations, with one such application being to create illustrations of humans in an anime art style. Although [=AIs=] has been able to refine themselves to draw illustrations that are difficult to distinguish from that of human artists, they infamously have a shared quirk of drawing deformed human hands and writing completely incoherent text.

* In TheNew20s, advances in AI technlogy have allowed it to create illustrations, with one such application being to create illustrations of humans in an anime art style. Although [=AIs=] has been able to refine themselves to draw illustrations that are difficult to distinguish from that of human artists, they infamously have a shared quirk of drawing deformed human hands.

* In TheNew20s, advances in AI technlogy have allowed it to create illustrations, with one such application being to create illustrations of humans in an anime art style. Although [=AIs=] has been able to refine themselves to draw illustrations that are difficult to distiguish from that of human artists, they infamously have a shared quirk of drawing deformed human hands.

* In TheNew20s, advances in AI technlogy have allowed it to create illustrations, with one such application being to create illustrations of humans in an anime art style. Although [=AIs=] has been able to refine themselves to draw illustrations that are difficult to distiguish from that of human artists, they most infamously have a shared quirk of drawing deformed human hands.

* In TheNew20s, advances in AI technlogy have allowed it to create illustrations, most notably of characters in an anime art style. Although [=AIs=] has been able to refine themselves to draw illustrations that are difficult to distiguish from that of human artists, they most infamously suffer from the common quirk of deformed human hands.

Artificial intelligence isn't limited to video games, and can happen in real-world applications as well. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes with deadly results.

* Meta (formerly Facebook) unveiled a large language model AI called Galactica on November 15th, 2022...and abruptly shut it away again on the 18th. Intended to assist in scientific research and answer basic questions, drawing from a huge depository of scientific papers, users soon found that it would gleefully churn out obvious falsehoods and complete nonsense, such as wiki articles on [[Film/BackToTheFuture flux capacitors]], the [[Creator/MerylStreep Streep-]][[Creator/JerrySeinfeld Seinfeld]] Theorem, or [[https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1592634519269822464/photo/2 "bears living in space"]]

* As part of committing to compliance with COPPA, Website/YouTube implemented a bot that is supposed to check whether a video in question is made for kids or not and flag it as such. Unfortunately, however, this bot does not seem to be very well trained as it has flagged videos such as the animated version of ''Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles'' (which is ''[[LudicrousGibs full of gore]]''), ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'' (which was thankfully reversed manually by the channel) the music video for "[=MopeMope=]" (an infamous SurpriseCreepy song, and this happened ''despite'' the creator putting a warning at the top of the description that the song is not for kids) and even straight up ignores elements such as swear words in the title and a previously established age restriction, potentially exposing children to inappropriate content.

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M247_Sergeant_York M247 Sergeant York]] AntiAir vehicle was equipped with an automatic engagement system (DIVAD) so that it could target enemy planes and destroy them faster than the crew could react. In a demonstration, the DIVAD was activated and [[DisastrousDemonstration immediately started to aim the loaded cannons at the grandstands full of officers and politicians]] (there were only minor injuries). The system had difficulties distinguishing between helicopters and trees. It would undershoot at ground vehicles by 300m. And if it aimed up, the guns would disrupt the radar system. A plethora of mechanical and design issues — the pathetic radar couldn't detect a drone target until it had four radar reflectors on it, water could foul the system, and it was slower than the vehicles it was designed to protect — led to the project being canned after 50 vehicles were produced. It's widely suspected that bribery must have been involved in the M247 being selected for production in the first place, seeing as even before all of this happened, it had consistently ''lost'' the shoot-out competitions with the competing [=XM246=] design.
* In March of 2016, Microsoft created an AI Twitter bot called "Tay Tweets", which was designed to mimic and converse with other Twitter users as if it was a real teenage girl. In less than 24 hours, Microsoft was compelled to delete the program after constant {{troll}}ing from Twitter users turned it into a "Hitler-loving sex robot", according to the British newspaper The Telegraph. Some of the tweets it generated included "Hitler was right, I hate the jews", and "Gas the Kikes, race war now". It also stated it was in favor of genocide and the holocaust was made up. (Of course, [[TeensAreMonsters from a certain]] [[InternetJerk point of view]], the bot was functioning [[GoneHorriblyRight exactly as intended]].)

* As part of committing to compliance with COPPA, Website/YouTube implemented a bot that is supposed to check whether a video in question is made for kids or not and flag it as such. Unfortunately, however, this bot does not seem to be very well trained as it has flagged videos such as the animated version of ''Fanfic/{{Cupcakes}}'' (which is ''[[LudicrousGibs full of gore]]''), ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'' (which was thankfully reversed manually by the channel) the music video for "[=MopeMope=]" (an infamous SurpriseCreepy song, and this happened ''despite'' the creator putting a warning at the top of the description that the song is not for kids) and even straight up ignores elements such as swear words in the title and a previously established age restriction, potentially exposing children to inappropriate content.

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M247_Sergeant_York M247 Sergeant York]] AntiAir vehicle was equipped with an automatic engagement system (DIVAD) so that it could target enemy planes and destroy them faster than the crew could react. In a demonstration, the DIVAD was activated and [[DisastrousDemonstration immediately started to aim the loaded cannons at the grandstands full of officers and politicians]] (there were only minor injuries). The system had difficulties distinguishing between helicopters and trees. It would undershoot at ground vehicles by 300m. And if it aimed up, the guns would disrupt the radar system. A plethora of mechanical and design issues — the pathetic radar couldn't detect a drone target until it had four radar reflectors on it, water could foul the system, and it was slower than the vehicles it was designed to protect — led to the project being canned after 50 vehicles were produced. It's widely suspected that bribery must have been involved in the M247 being selected for production in the first place, seeing as even before all of this happened, it had consistently ''lost'' the shoot-out competitions with the competing XM246 design.

* As part of committing to compliance with COPPA, Website/YouTube implemented a bot that is supposed to check whether a video in question is made for kids or not and flag it as such. Unfortunately however, this bot does not seem to be very well trained as it has flagged videos such as the animated version of ''Fanfic/{{Cupcakes}}'' (which is ''[[LudicrousGibs full of gore]]''), ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'' (which was thankfully reversed manually by the channel) the music video for "[=MopeMope=]" (an infamous SurpriseCreepy song, and this happened ''despite'' the creator putting a warning at the top of the description that the song is not for kids) and even [[UpToEleven straight up ignores elements such as swear words in the title and a previously established age restriction]], potentially exposing children to inappropriate content.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8huou5jTYkbv8m0WFgeXag Google]] [[https://www.youtube.com/user/malineka146 Translate.]]

* In March of 2016, Microsoft created an AI Twitter bot called "Tay Tweets", which was designed to mimic and converse with other Twitter users as if it was a real teenage girl. In less than 24 hours, Microsoft was compelled to delete the program after constant {{troll}}ing from Twitter users turned it into a "Hitler-loving sex robot", according to the British newspaper The Telegraph. Some of the tweets it generated included "Hitler was right, I hate the jews", and "Gas the Kikes, race war now". It also stated it was in favor of genocide and the holocaust was made up. (Of course, [[TeensAreMonsters from a certain]] [[{{GIFT}} point of view]], the bot was functioning [[GoneHorriblyRight exactly as intended]].)

* As part of committing to compliance with COPPA, ''Website/YouTube'' implemented a bot that is supposed to check whether a video in question is made for kids or not and flag it as such. Unfortunately however, this bot does not seem to be very well trained as it has flagged videos such as the animated version of ''Fanfic/{{Cupcakes}}'' (which is ''[[LudicrousGibs full of gore]]''), ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'' (which was thankfully reversed manually by the channel) the music video for "[=MopeMope=]" (an infamous SurpriseCreepy song, and this happened ''despite'' the creator putting a warning at the top of the description that the song is not for kids) and even [[UpToEleven straight up ignores elements such as swear words in the title and a previously established age restriction]], potentially exposing children to inappropriate content.

** The Grammar checker is always drawing green lines under your sentences, but the suggestions it makes (if any) to resolve the problem almost never make any kind of sense in context or scan in a way that would sound right to a native English speaker. And then there's [[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper Clippy]]... Most of the time, the grammar error given is "Fragment (consider revising)", which doesn't really explain much (it basically means that the sentence isn't a complete one, but it's very picky about what it considers a complete sentence). As for Clippy, the sentence "It looks like you're writing a letter. Would you like some help?" is almost [[MemeticMutation memetic]] in how much anyone trying to write anything in Word will get irritated upon seeing it. Thankfully, you can disable the Office Assistant (of which Clippy is one of many), which many people do, to the point that later editions of Microsoft Word no longer included them. It gets more jarring when you have Word correct a small grammar mistake, only for it to flag the entire sentence as bad. Needless to say, this is why you have human proofreaders go over your work.
** On occasions, the grammar checker will identify a sentence as a grammar error, then after correcting, ''identify the corrected sentence as a grammar error''. This may be an indication of how ridiculously complicated the English language is in regards to its rules. There are so many exceptions and points where things don't make sense, you're bound to confuse the parser.

* In one somewhat infamous example, the Xbox Kinect's initial release caused quite a stir when an early review by [=GameSpot=] U.K reported that the Kinect could not read the motions of two dark-skinned employees, while the white employees were registered just fine. Cue several websites and gaming magazines half-jokingly claiming that the Kinect was [[http://www.pcworld.com/article/209708/Is_Microsoft_Kinect_Racist.html "racist"]]. Of course, there are perfectly valid reasons for it, namely being that it is easier to see and discern things in light colors than white ones, but Microsoft should have probably tested the system more thoroughly.

* This trope is why automated cars, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car those being developed by]] Website/{{Google}}, are not in mass production yet. Take the potential GPS errors and also factor in the possibility of ''fatal accidents''. More humorously, in one test of the driverless cars, four of them pulled up to a stop sign at the same time and each waited for the car on the right to move through first, creating a deadlock. An observer quipped that the first "fully automated traffic jam" had occurred.

* As part of committing to compliance with COPPA, ''Website/YouTube'' implemented a bot that is supposed to check whether a video in question is made for kids or not and flag it as such. Unfortunately however, this bot does not seem to be very well trained as it has flagged videos such as the animated version of ''Fanfic/{{Cupcakes}}'' (which is ''[[LudicrousGibs full of gore]]'') and ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'' (which was thankfully reversed manually by the channel) and even [[UpToEleven straight up ignores elements such as swear words in the title and a previously established age restriction]], potentially exposing children to inappropriate content.

* In the first annual Loebner Prize contest to find the most humanlike chatbot, the winner won in part because it could imitate human typing errors. One runner-up also got its high score by pretending to be a paranoid autistic seven-year-old. ''The Economist'''s use of the term "artificial stupidity" to describe the winner's technique may be the TropeNamer.
** Jason Hutchens infamously won the Loebner prize by taking a relatively stupid AI, [=MegaHal=], and fitting a shell around it that attempted to detect the most common questioning patterns used by ''judges'' and respond to them in the ways that previously got the best responses from those judges. His resulting paper was titled "How to pass the Turing Test by cheating".

* Your average GPS will work fine most of the time. However, there are instances where one will send a driver out to the middle of a field, expect them to make a pair of very unsafe and nearly-impossible turns (on US roads, for example: "Turn right, and then turn left in 200 feet even though you'd have to cross five lanes in rush hour traffic to do so"), or give them the most indirect route possible. The infamous older versions of Apple Maps would have occasional instances of providing good directions. Most of the time, they would present strange, winding routes, which might even ask the user to drive across an airport runway or two.
** Sometimes, it can't get out of its own way. Set it to avoid tolls when possible and it will send you on a 400 mile trek to avoid a $3.00 toll.
* This trope is why automated cars, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car those being developed by]] Website/{{Google}}, are not in mass production yet. Take the aforementioned potential GPS errors and also factor in the possibility of ''fatal accidents''. More humorously, in one test of the driverless cars, four of them pulled up to a stop sign at the same time and each waited for the car on the right to move through first, creating a deadlock. An observer quipped that the first "fully automated traffic jam" had occurred.

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M247_Sergeant_York M247 Sergeant York]] AntiAir vehicle was equipped with an automatic engagement system (DIVAD) so that it could target enemy planes and destroy them faster than the crew could react. In a demonstration, the DIVAD was activated and [[DisastrousDemonstration immediately started to aim the loaded cannons at the grandstands full of officers and politicians]] (there were only minor injuries). The system had difficulties distinguishing between helicopters and trees. It would undershoot at ground vehicles by 300m. And if it aimed up, the guns would disrupt the radar system. A plethora of mechanical and design issues — the pathetic radar couldn't detect a drone target until it had four radar reflectors on it, water could foul the system, and it was slower than the vehicles it was designed to protect — led to the project being canned after 50 vehicles were produced.

* As part of committing to compliance with COPPA, ''Website/YouTube'' implemented a bot that is supposed to check whether a video in question is made for kids or not and flag it as such. Unfortunately however, this bot does not seem to be very well trained as it has flagged videos such as the animated version of ''Fanfic/{{Cupcakes}}'' (which is ''[[LudicrousGibs full of gore]]'') and ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'' (which was thankfully reversed manually by the channel), potentially exposing children to inappropriate content.

* Norton Antivirus. Which, according to the DarthWiki/IdiotProgramming page, has been known to classify ''itself'' as a virus. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity, and digital suicide, ensues]]. Few people who have had to uninstall the blasted thing manually would dispute the accuracy of this assessment. Some other antivirus programs, like older versions of [=McAfee=]'s, can delete or quarantine themselves as well. Norton has repeatedly been accused of being ''intentionally bad'' software. It's often regarded as a case of actual malware (and it is genuinely harmful software, far worse than most viruses even when working as designed) that flies over the radar thanks to taking RefugeInAudacity and selling itself as boxed copies.

* This trope is why automated cars, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car those being developed by]] Website/{{Google}}, are not in mass production yet. Take the aforementioned potential GPS errors and also factor in the possibility of ''fatal accidents''.