Microsoft Says Maverick Chatbot Tay Foreshadows the Future of Computing

If you'd inadvertently unleashed a Neo-Nazi sex-bot on an unsuspecting Internet, you might be reluctant to proclaim the technology as the future of computing. Microsoft, it seems, has no such qualms. Just a few days after yanking the errant chatbot Tay from the Internet, Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, announced that he expects similar (though presumably less offensive) bots to become a commonplace. In fact, Microsoft seems to believe that "conversational computing" could be a major new paradigm in computing. "We want to take the power of human language and apply it more pervasively to all of the computing interface and the computing interactions," Nadella said during his keynote at the company's Build 2016 conference for developers.