Artificial Intelligence: Robo Rules & Regulation

Artificial intelligence has dominated headlines recently, highlighting the best and worst of its capabilities and suggesting there is still work to be done and improvements to be made. News of Microsoft's Tay, an artificially intelligent bot which was created to mimic the personality of a 19-year old woman, quickly turned sour as it seemed to transform into a'bitter racist' on the social media website twitter. When Microsoft was asked to confirm whether the bot had been shut down, it responded: "The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human engagement. "As it learns, some of its responses are inappropriate and indicative of the types of interactions some people are having with it. A more successful venture into AI was seen in Google's AlphaGo artificial intelligence after it defeated Go world champion Lee Se-dol twice. Se-dol said after the second defeat: "I am quite speechless… I feel like AlphaGo played a nearly perfect game."