The National Eating Disorders Association took down a controversial chatbot, after users showed how the newest version could dispense potentially harmful advice about dieting and calorie counting.

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    1 year ago

    Another case of people who should know better thinking that machine learning AIs are the same kind of AI you see in science fiction.

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      1 year ago

      @little_hoarse I agree totally. Eating disorders need usually counseling to help to find the causes of the problem and find ways of fixing them.
      Computers can do lots of things, but not substitute humans in this kinds of tasks.