Terminating Tay – A Microsoft AI Experiment Gone Wrong

You Might Have Heard: The Microsoft AI experiment with Tay, their machine learning Twitter bot, ended after a mere 24-hours. The company pulled the plug when she almost immediately turned into a sexist, racist Nazi. Tay was suppose to learn how to communicate like a human by engaging in conversations with Twitter users. "This gets to the underlying problem," Vice argues. "Microsoft's AI developers sent Tay to the internet to learn how to be human, but the internet is a terrible place to figure that out."