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 ...

Microsoft has learned a lot about chatbot technology since the unfortunate rollout of the short-lived "Tay" chatbot one year ago this week, when Internet ...

Well, that escalated quickly. Less than 24 hours after first talking with the public, Microsoft's millennial-minded chatbot Tay was pulled offline amid ...

Microsoft said it completely underestimated how the Internet would use the Tay chatbot to promote "wildly inappropriate and reprehensible words and images." ...

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 wi… ...

Tay was meant to be a cheeky young person you could talk to on Twitter. Users tried -- successfully -- to get the bot to say racist and inappropriate things. Microsoft pulled the bot offline, and ...

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 colossal and highly public failure of Microsoft's Twitter-based chatbot Tay earlier this week raised many questions: How could this happen? Who is responsible for it? And is it true that ...

Microsoft’s teen chatbot learned how to be racist, sexist, and genocidal in less than 24 hours. The artificial intelligence experiment called Tay was designed to research conversational ...

Microsoft shut down its newest artificial intelligence chatbot Thursday after it generated a string of racist and insensitive tweets.

Microsoft Artificial Intelligence Experiment Under Fire "Tay" was launched to connect with millennials but the AI bot has instead tweeted racist and anti-feminist comments.

Less than a day after launching Tay on Twitter, Microsoft has deleted all the chatbot’s messages, including tweets praising Hitler and genocide and tweets spouting hatred for African Americans.