A few days ago we were surprised by a piece of news: "Microsoft withdraws the robot that learned to be racist". As if from a movie It was science fiction, Microsoft had created an artificial intelligence that had its own Twitter account through which he could interact with web surfers. Tay - that was his name - only had a few hours of "life". This type of artificial intelligence is nourished by interaction with users, with which they generate responses that are often taken out of context, because of course, robots do not understand contexts .What happened to poor Tay was, mainly, that the users taught her the bad things about human beings, racism, rude words... and finally Microsoft had to unplug it.
Well, the application that we are going to see in this article is quite similar to this case that we have just discussed. It is “SimSimi”, an application available is web support, Android and iOS whose The main character is a nice yellow chicken that responds to everything we say. The operation of SimSimi is very simple, it responds to what we say as long as it has a learned response for that question, which means that it is the users who ask it. “teach” phrases and tell you what to answer. This app doesn't have any kind of intelligence by itself like Siri, for example. What it does is respond according to the phrases and answers that users have been adding and that it stores in a database.If we enter Twitter and search with the hashtag SimSimi we will see that in recent weeks It has become quite a phenomenon. The net is full of SimSimiscreenshots speaking in different languages and saying all sorts of nonsense. As happened with artificial intelligence from Microsoft, this poor Korean yellow chicken is also learning the worstIt should be remembered that SimSimi was created in 2002 but has risen to fame now thanks to its exposure on Twitter through user messages.
Regarding the setting up is very simple: you download it, select the language in which you want to communicate with it and start to speak. He will be the first to greet you with a "hello" and once you answer him he will reply back to you.
Next to the message bar -where you write what you want to say- there is an icon of a pencil. If we click on it we will It will take you to the screen where we can write the questions and answers that we want it to learn and then tell other users.
And right next to the balloon of your answers appears a icon shaped like a button, if we click on it a balloon opens with options of report. We can report the comment or just say it's not funny.
As we have seen the application is very basic but it makes you have a good time if you are waiting for the bus or in the hall waiting for the doctorThe worst it has without a doubt are the ad balloons located just above the tabs that we have to use it in the app with what is constantly being opened .
