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

Microsoft’s Tay.ai chatbot went from being a teen with ‘no chill’ to a racist, misogynistic jerk By Alejandro Alba UPDATED: April 9, 2018 at 1:31 AM EDT ...

“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 ...

Less than 24 hours after first talking with the public, Microsoft’s millennial-minded chatbot Tay was pulled offline amid pro-Nazi leanings. According to her webpage, Tay had a “busy day.” ...

Microsoft should also keep in mind that such projects will suffer malware attacks, denial of service attacks, and any other abuse that the people who assaulted Tay are capable of thinking up.

Microsoft’s Tay jumped into this mess with both feet. But search for the white nationalist site Stormfront, and both Bing and Google will show you the result.

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.

Stephen Merity points out a few more flaws in the Tay method and dataset, as well — 4chan and its ilk can’t take full credit for corrupting the system. Microsoft isn’t giving up, though; Tay ...

Microsoft apparently became aware of the problem with Tay’s racism, and silenced the bot later on Wednesday, after 16 hours of chats. Tay announced via a tweet that she was turning off for the ...

Microsoft launched Tay on Twitter and messaging platforms GroupMe and Kik. Tay is designed to get smarter and learn from conversations, but there was just one problem: She didn't understand what ...

Microsoft launched Tay on Twitter and messaging platforms GroupMe and Kik. Tay is designed to get smarter and learn from conversations, but there was just one problem: She didn't understand what ...

Last week, Microsoft created an AI program called Tay and launched it on Twitter. Designed to speak like a teenage girl, Tay was an attempt from Microsoft to better understand artificial intelligence.