{"id":9380,"date":"2013-01-11T10:52:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T18:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=9380"},"modified":"2019-12-23T15:55:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T23:55:32","slug":"youve-got-a-dirty-speech-synthesizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/01\/11\/youve-got-a-dirty-speech-synthesizer\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ve Got A Dirty Speech Synthesizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2927,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/tech.fortune.cnn.com\\\/2013\\\/01\\\/07\\\/ibm-watson-slang&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20161229084228\\\/http:\\\/\\\/tech.fortune.cnn.com:80\\\/2013\\\/01\\\/07\\\/ibm-watson-slang\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 07:30:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 07:30:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2928,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Watson_(computer)&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260206163841\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Watson_(computer)&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 07:30:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 07:30:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2929,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=Puhs2LuO3Zc&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251112050009\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=Puhs2LuO3Zc&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 07:30:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 07:30:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2930,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.techdirt.com\\\/articles\\\/20130110\\\/14542221635\\\/ibm-researcher-feeds-watson-supercomputer-urban-dictionary-very-quickly-regrets-it.shtml&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20211027050216\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.techdirt.com\\\/articles\\\/20130110\\\/14542221635\\\/ibm-researcher-feeds-watson-supercomputer-urban-dictionary-very-quickly-regrets-it.shtml&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 07:30:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 07:30:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.fortune.cnn.com\/2013\/01\/07\/ibm-watson-slang\/\" title=\"CNNMoney: Teaching IBM's Watson the meaning of 'OMG'\">amusing little anecdote<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Watson_(computer)\" title=\"Wikipedia: Watson (computer)\">Watson<\/a>, the IBM supercomputer that was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Puhs2LuO3Zc\" title=\"YouTube: 'Watson' computer wins at 'Jeopardy'\">featured on Jeopardy<\/a>, that might seem a little familiar to those of my friends who are parents:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Two years ago, Brown attempted to teach Watson the Urban Dictionary. The popular website contains definitions for terms ranging from Internet abbreviations like OMG, short for &#8220;Oh, my God,&#8221; to slang such as &#8220;hot mess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  But Watson couldn&#8217;t distinguish between polite language and profanity &#8212; which the Urban Dictionary is full of. Watson picked up some bad habits from reading Wikipedia as well. In tests it even used the word &#8220;bullshit&#8221; in an answer to a researcher&#8217;s query.<\/p>\n<p>  Ultimately, Brown&#8217;s 35-person team developed a filter to keep Watson from swearing and scraped the Urban Dictionary from its memory.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, seems like parenting would be a little easier (if less embarrassing&#8211;and, of course, amusing) if the solution was that easy for people!<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20130110\/14542221635\/ibm-researcher-feeds-watson-supercomputer-urban-dictionary-very-quickly-regrets-it.shtml\" title=\"Techdirt: IBM Researcher Feeds Watson Supercomputer The 'Urban Dictionary'; Very Quickly Regrets It\">Techdirt<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amusing little anecdote about Watson, the IBM supercomputer that was featured on Jeopardy, that might seem a little familiar to those of my friends who are parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[6,39],"class_list":["post-9380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-humor","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}