The Saga of Twitter Bot Tay

It took less than 24 hours. Microsoft had released its latest experiment with artificial intelligence: a Twitter bot named Tay that was designed to research and foster "conversational understanding." But Tay learned too much, much too young. And, as with so many things on the internet, the best of intentions went awry almost immediately. Tay was programmed to edit responses to her on Twitter in order to form new thoughts and sentences.