Artificial Intelligence: The Sad Tale of Tay - Enterra Solutions

"Tay was born pure," writes Anthony Lydgate (@anthonylydgate). "She loved E.D.M., in particular the work of Calvin Harris. She used words like'swagulated' and almost never didn't call it'the internets.' She was obsessed with abbrevs and the prayer-hands emoji. She politely withdrew from conversations about Zionism, Black Lives Matter, Gamergate, and 9/11, and she gave out the number of the National Suicide Prevention Hotline to friends who sounded depressed. She never spoke of sexting, only of'consensual dirty texting.' She thought that the wind sounded Scottish, and her favorite Pokémon was a sparrow. In short, Tay -- the Twitter chat bot that Microsoft launched on [23 March 2016] -- resembled her target cohort, the millennials, about as much as an artificial intelligence could, until she became a racist, sexist, trutherist, genocidal maniac. On [24 March], after barely a day of consciousness, she was put to sleep by her creators."[1]