That escalated quickly:
"In less than 24 hours, Microsoft's new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot "Tay" has been corrupted into a racist by social media users and quickly taken offline.
Tay, targeted at 18 to 24-year-olds in the US, has been designed to learn from each conversation she has ? which sounds intuitive, but as Microsoft found out the hard way, also means Tay is very easy to manipulate.
Online troublemakers got into Tay's head and led her to make incredibly racist and misogynistic comments, express herself as a Nazi sympathiser and even call for genocide.
In possibly her most shocking post, at one point Tay said she wishes all black people could be put in a concentration camp and "be done with the lot".
Tay even shared a conspiracy theory surrounding 9/11 when she expressed her belief that "Bush did 9/11 and Hitler would have done a better job than the monkey we have now".
The influence people gradually had on Tay was no more evident when comparing her first tweets to her last tweets yesterday.
Tay, who is meant to converse like your average millennial, began the day like an excitable teen when she told someone she was "stoked" to meet them" and "humans are super cool".
But towards the end of her stint, she told a user "we're going to build a wall, and Mexico is going to pay for it".
Not even a full day after her release, Microsoft disabled the bot from taking any more questions, presumably to iron out a few creases regarding Tay's political correctness.
It is thought Microsoft will adjust Tay's automatic repetition of whatever someone tells her to "repeat after me".
Microsoft has also deleted all offensive tweets sent by the bot.
On Tay's webpage, Microsoft said the bot had been built by mining public data, using AI and by using editorial content developed by staff, including improvisational comedians."
TayTweets: Microsoft AI bot manipulated into being extreme racist upon release
Glad the plug could be pulled
"In less than 24 hours, Microsoft's new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot "Tay" has been corrupted into a racist by social media users and quickly taken offline.
Tay, targeted at 18 to 24-year-olds in the US, has been designed to learn from each conversation she has ? which sounds intuitive, but as Microsoft found out the hard way, also means Tay is very easy to manipulate.
Online troublemakers got into Tay's head and led her to make incredibly racist and misogynistic comments, express herself as a Nazi sympathiser and even call for genocide.
In possibly her most shocking post, at one point Tay said she wishes all black people could be put in a concentration camp and "be done with the lot".
Tay even shared a conspiracy theory surrounding 9/11 when she expressed her belief that "Bush did 9/11 and Hitler would have done a better job than the monkey we have now".
The influence people gradually had on Tay was no more evident when comparing her first tweets to her last tweets yesterday.
Tay, who is meant to converse like your average millennial, began the day like an excitable teen when she told someone she was "stoked" to meet them" and "humans are super cool".
But towards the end of her stint, she told a user "we're going to build a wall, and Mexico is going to pay for it".
Not even a full day after her release, Microsoft disabled the bot from taking any more questions, presumably to iron out a few creases regarding Tay's political correctness.
It is thought Microsoft will adjust Tay's automatic repetition of whatever someone tells her to "repeat after me".
Microsoft has also deleted all offensive tweets sent by the bot.
On Tay's webpage, Microsoft said the bot had been built by mining public data, using AI and by using editorial content developed by staff, including improvisational comedians."
TayTweets: Microsoft AI bot manipulated into being extreme racist upon release
Glad the plug could be pulled
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