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.

A 15-minute spamming rampage from Microsoft's mishap-prone Tay chatbot was the result of testing gone wrong, says Microsoft. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer March 30, 2016 at 2:51 a.m. PT ...

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 ...

With Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Jony Ive, the designer of the iPhone, about to launch their mysterious new AI product, I ...

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 ...

Tay, Microsoft's new teen-voiced Twitter AI, learns how to be racist 04:22. Microsoft got a swift lesson this week on the dark side of social media. Yesterday the company launched "Tay," an ...

This computer program simulation either has a mind of its own, or someone programed it to be controversial. Microsoft released an AI chatbot on Wednesday that was supposed to resemble a teenager ...

Microsoft said its researchers created Tay as an experiment to learn more about computers and human conversation. On its website, the company said the program was targeted to an audience of 18 to ...

But “Tay” only lasted a day or so in public. “The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human engagement,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement this past March.

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, Microsoft’s AI chatbot on Twitter had to be pulled down within hours of launch after it suddenly started making racist comments.. As we reported yesterday, it was aimed at 18-24 year-olds ...