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 ...

If you were worried artificial intelligence could one day move to terminate all humans, Microsoft’s Tay isn’t going to offer any consolation. The Millennial-inspired AI chatbot’s plug 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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft said it was all the fault of some really mean people, who launched a “coordinated effort” to make the chatbot known as Tay “respond in inappropriate ways.” To which one ...

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.

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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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Nearly seven years ago, Microsoft introduced a chatbot, Tay, that it shut down within a day of its release online, after users prompted it to spew racist and other offensive language. Microsoft ...