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… ...

Microsoft’s infamous chatter bot Tay briefly came back to life Wednesday morning a few days after letting out a storm of tweets so mind-boggling racist, anti-semitic, and offensive that her ...

Less than a day after she joined Twitter, Microsoft's AI bot, Tay.ai, was taken down for becoming a sexist, racist monster. AI experts explain why it went terribly wrong.

Tay, which Microsoft targeted to interact with 18- to-24-year olds, could have been programmed to filter out certain inappropriate sentiments and phrases. Another challenge to think about.

Earlier this week, Microsoft launched Tay — a bot ostensibly designed to talk to users on Twitter like a real millennial teenager and learn from the responses.

Tay is a racist, misogynist 420 activist from the internet with zero chill and 213,000 followers. The more you talk, the more unhinged Tay gets. Microsoft’s Tay AI chatbot rose to notoriety this ...

Microsoft may have been thrilled with the launch of its chatbot Tay, but its excitement was short-lived as the AI — which was capable of posting nearly 100,000 tweets in 24 hours — as now ...

Microsoft issued an apology via the company's official blog Friday for the "behavior" of its bot Tay, the juvenile (and politically illiterate) bot that came into the world on Wednesday primed to ...

Barely hours after Microsoft debuted Tay AI, a chatbot designed to speak the lingo of the youths, on Wednesday, the artificially intelligent bot went off the rails and became, like, so totally racist.

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

Microsoft immediately shut the experiment down and apologized: “We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand ...

Microsoft's Research and Bing teams have developed a chat bot, Tay.ai, aimed at 18 to 24 year olds, the 'dominant users of mobile social chat services in the U.S.' ...