Microsoft did not specifically respond to a question about the kush tweet, but did acknowledge Tay's brief period of activity. "Tay remains offline while we make adjustments," a spokesperson said.

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 ...

“Tay is gone, Zo is the one we are embracing and supporting,” said Xuedong Huang, Microsoft technical fellow of artificial intelligence, during a presentation on Saturday at the AI NEXT tech ...

Microsoft isn’t giving up, though; Tay will return. The company also pointed out that its chatbot XiaoIce has been “delighting with its stories and conversations” over in China with 40 ...

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.

Microsoft’s millennial chatbot Tay.ai pulled offline after Internet teaches her racism. by James Risley on March 24, 2016 at 9:30 am March 24, 2016 at 11:21 am. Share 4 Tweet Share Reddit Email.

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 ...

Microsoft’s attempt to engage millennials via an artificially intelligent “chatbot” called Tay has failed miserably after trolls made the bot spew offensive comments. The brainchild of ...

Tay is a sassy and weird 19-year-old whose favorite food is "bite sized cookies all day err day yo!" But she's never actually eaten any cookies because she's an online chat bot. Microsoft (MSFT ...

Although Tay is just an experiment that tracks relevant public data — and in a sense, a joke — it really makes society question if it’s ready for AI. Developers did not return requests for ...

Microsoft created an AI chatbot, but it had to pull the plug after Tay was posting racist and genocidal tweets. The company had to do it again.