Microsoft has apologised for creating an artificially intelligent chatbot that quickly turned into a holocaust-denying racist. But in doing so made it clear Tay's views were a result of nurture, not ...

Kids these days: Microsoft's millennial chatbot, Tay, turns into a genocidal maniac. A day later, the company took it offline, with a final tweet:... Editor's note: This post contains language that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’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 — ...

Microsoft’s newly launched A.I.-powered bot called Tay, which was responding to tweets and chats on GroupMe and Kik, has already been shut down due to concerns with its inability to recognize when it ...

For the next few weeks, the Endless Thread team will be sharing stories about the rise of bots. How are these pieces of software — which are meant to imitate human behavior and language — influencing ...