Microsoft's millennial-talking AI chatbot, Tay.ai, has taken a break from Twitter after humans taught it to parrot a number of inflammatory and racist opinions. Machine learning, task automation ...

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.

Microsoft's Tay AI chatbot goes offline after being taught to be a racist; Microsoft launches AI chat bot, Tay.ai; UK looks at impact of AI and robotics on jobs and society; Editorial standards.

But “Tay” only lasted a day or so in public. “The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human engagement,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement this past March.

The tech industry’s campaign to embed artificial intelligence chatbots in classrooms is accelerating. The American Federation ...

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 ...

Elon Musk's Grok chatbot on Tuesday praised Adolf Hitler and made other antisemitic comments. The chatbot, built by Musk's ...

With Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Jony Ive, the designer of the iPhone, about to launch their mysterious new AI product, I ...

Chatbots like Bing have kicked off a major new AI arms race between the biggest tech companies. Though Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook have invested in AI tech for years, it’s mostly ...

So nice work, trolls: You took a friendly AI chatbot and turned it into a genocidal maniac in a matter of hours. At any rate, I’m sure that Microsoft has learned from this experience and is ...

Chatbots like Bing have kicked off a major new AI arms race between the biggest tech companies. Though Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook have invested in AI tech for years, it's mostly worked ...