Watson, the IBM supercomputer, was given a lesson in slang recently. The Awl reports:
In order to make the genius computer speak in a way modern idiots would understand, researcher Eric Brown forced Watson to digest the entirety of UrbanDictionary.com—the whole filthy thing, with its Boston Steamers and Donkey Punches and King James Versions.
But once it had been exposed to the language of Urban Dictionary, shit got weird:
Watson couldn’t distinguish between polite language and profanity—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 “bullshit” in an answer to a researcher’s query.
IBM researchers ultimately had to wipe the material from Watson’s memory.