Artificial intelligence in review: when AI fails - Neoteric

Back in 2016, Microsoft made some big headlines when they announced TayTweets: a chatbot speaking the language of teenagers. TayTweets could automatically reply to users' tweets and engage in conversations on Twitter. Tay was like a teenager, speaking a language resembling the English that we know, but um… somehow different. Tay was a little like a baby: it'd learn whatever you gave to it. It takes a human to make moral decisions about something being right or wrong, or about something being inappropriate or offensive.