Tay does track those who chat with her on Twitter and other social sites. The FAQ section of Microsoft's "Tay may use the data that you provide to search on your behalf," according to Microsoft. "Tay ...

REDMOND, Wash. — Just a day after Microsoft's new artificial intelligence, Tay, launched on several social platforms, it was corrupted by the Internet. If you haven't heard of Tay, it's a machine ...

Microsoft has said it is "deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets" generated by its Chat Bot Tay, which was taken down after spouting racist and sexist remarks. The device was ...

Microsoft’s artificial intelligence strategy is to unleash more bots like Tay. Redmond doesn’t mean more nasty, racist or homophobic chatbots, but a forest of A.I. personalities for different uses — ...

With Microsoft’s new Bing AI and other artificial intelligence software becoming the biggest news story of 2023 thus far, it’s easy to forget that AI chatbots have been around for a long time — and ...

In 2016 Microsoft unleashed a Twitter chatbot named “Tay” onto the world and immediately its machine-learning algorithm turned to racism and sexism. Hey, if you build a bot to mimic how people talk on ...

We’ve covered robot writers before, but to date it has never been much of a concern for actual writers. Robots just aren’t that good at doing what we do; although Microsoft’s ‘Tay’ did prove to be ...