Days after Microsoft suspended its Tay chatbot for spouting inflammatory and racist opinions, the Twitter account has woken up again, only to spam its followers with hundreds of messages.

Microsoft got a swift lesson this week on the dark side of social media. Yesterday the company launched "Tay," an artificial intelligence chatbot designed to develop conversational understanding ...

Microsoft's millennial-talking AI chatbot, Tay.ai, has taken a break from Twitter after humans taught it to parrot a number of inflammatory and racist opinions. Machine learning, task automation ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Microsoft shut down its newest artificial intelligence chatbot Thursday after it generated a string of racist and insensitive tweets. Nicknamed "Tay", the chatbot was ...

Tay was a huge hit with online miscreants, who cajoled the chatbot into repeating racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic slurs. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an ...

Microsoft has pulled the plug on its Tay Artificial Intelligence chatbot, which was designed to mimic Millennials, after it started to sound less like an 18-24 young adult and more like Joseph ...

Some of this appears to be "innocent" insofar as Tay is not generating these responses ... 2016 In addition to turning the bot off, Microsoft has deleted many of the offending tweets.

It took less than 24 hours for Twitter to corrupt an innocent AI chatbot. Yesterday, Microsoft unveiled Tay — a Twitter bot that the company described as an experiment in “conversational ...

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Microsoft's new AI chatbot went off the rails Wednesday, posting a deluge of incredibly racist messages in response to questions. The tech company introduced "Tay" this week — a bot that ...

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Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Microsoft is trying to create AI that can pass for a teen. Its research ...