Overcoming the Racial Bias in AI - KDnuggets

Back in 2013, Microsoft came up with the exciting idea of introducing the general public to Artificial Intelligence. Tay, the teenage chatbot, was launched into the Twittersphere to interact with the platform's audience. Being a young and hip chatbot, it was programmed to use modern slang language instead of formal English. Tay was to mimic those that interacted with her so she could learn the human ways. But this experiment didn't turn out the way Microsoft expected it would. Trolls on the social media site took advantage of Tay's "repeat after me" function and turned her into one of the most bigoted profiles on the forum.