Artificial Intelligence, Tay & the Tree - The day the Internet went mad

On March 23rd, 2016, Microsoft released a chunk of artificial intelligence onto the Internet. Dubbed "Tay," this was a bot1 designed to chat with real human beings, simulating a 19-year-old female, learning from those humans how to act more human. On March 24th, less than 24 hours later, Microsoft put Tay to sleep. She was spewing neo-Nazi, xenophobic, racist tweets. Apparently, Tay had been learning from the wrong humans--those who had chosen to teach her.