Less than a day after she joined Twitter, Microsoft's AI bot, Tay.ai, was taken down for becoming a sexist, racist monster. AI experts explain why it went terribly wrong. She was supposed to come ...

The Microsoft Technology and Research and Bing teams created Tay to “experiment with and conduct research on conversational understanding.” But it was AI Gone Wrong from the start. Tay ...

We reached out to Microsoft in an attempt to determine just what, exactly, the hell is going on over there. According to a company spokesperson, the problem is not one of AI gone wrong.

Tay’s meltdown was not in fact a case of robots gone rogue. The explanation was far simpler, for Microsoft engineers had made one fatal mistake: They’d programmed Tay to learn from her ...

No doubt sending Microsoft’s PR team into a state of panic, Tay gradually started repeating many of these comments, including such obviously hateful ones as “Hitler did nothing wrong”, which ...