Microsoft's Racist, Obama-Bashing, Sociopathic Chat Robot Returns, Becomes A Spamming Stoner, Is Taken Offline

One week ago, we reported that Microsoft's first foray into Twitter chat "artificial intelligence" did not quite work as expected: once unleashed into the wild, the chat robot named "Tay" proceeded to have a spectacular implosion, and in the span of just a few hours upon interacting with the broader Twitter population, was transformed from a polite teenage girl impersonator into an all out sociopath, unleash ingtweets covering everything from racist outbursts, N-words, conspiracy theories, genocide, incest, Obama-slurs, and even outright Nazism. "The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human engagement. It is as much a social and cultural experiment, as it is technical. Unfortunately, within the first 24 hours of coming online, we became aware of a coordinated effort by some users to abuse Tay's commenting skills to have Tay respond in inappropriate ways. As a result, we have taken Tay offline and are making adjustments."