A Microsoft spokesperson said: "The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human engagement. It is as much a social and cultural experiment, as it is technical. Unfortunately, within the first 24 hours of coming online, we became aware of a coordinated effort by so...
Months after the company's first chatbot Tay went viral for all the wrong reasons, Microsoft quietly rolled out a new bot that looks to be far less controversial than its predecessor. SEE ALSO: Microsoft's CEO wants bots and AI in every home Named Zo, the latest chatbot appeared on chat...
Microsoft got a swift lesson this week on the dark side of social media. Yesterday the company launched "Tay,"an artificial intelligencechatbot designed to develop conversational understanding by interacting with humans. Users could follow and interact with the bot @TayandYou on Twitter and it woul...
Microsoft’s Tayisn’t going to offer any consolation. The Millennial-inspired AI chatbot’s plug was pulled a day after it launched, following Tay’s racist, genocidal tweets praising Hitler and bashing feminists.
Tay, the Microsoft chatbot that pranksters trained to spew racist views, has resurfaced on MIT Technology Review's list of 2016's top technology failures.
Tay was taken down and the tweets deleted but not before some of the most offensive of them were captured and spread even further on the Internet. Apparently, the researchers at Microsoft thought that because they had successfully developed a similar AI chatbot calledXiaoIcethat has been running ...
but it also caused a lot of controversy with its inappropriate and racist comments. Following Tay’s disastrous launch, Microsoft pulled the chatbot quickly. Along with taking the chatbot offline, Microsoftissued a statementsaying that the company is making adjustments to its AI chatbot so that it...
First there was Tay. Then there was Zo. Now there's Ruuh -- Microsoft's latest AI chatbot. Ruuh, a "desi AI who never stops talking," is available only to users in India and in English only. According toa Facebook page for Ruuh, Microsoft launched its latest AI chatbot on February...
“The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human engagement,” Microsoft said in a statement sent to Business Insider. “As it learns, some of its responses are inappropriate. We’re making some adjustments.” In one tweet that has since been deleted, the Tay bot ...
latertoBusiness Insider, Microsoft said: "The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human engagement. As it learns, some of its responses are inappropriate and indicative of the types of interactions some people are having with it. We're making some adjustments to Tay." ...