Microsoft's Twitter Bot: From Awfully Sweet to Awful in a Day

Microsoft created an artificial-intelligence based chatbot named Tay to engage with young people on Twitter. But within hours of her debut Wednesday, the Internet had stolen the bot's innocence. The bot, @TayandYou, rapidly transformed into a racist that hates feminists, supports Donald Trump for President and considers herself a fan of Hitler. The metamorphosis from happy bot to enraged racist came lightning-fast, much like the way many things go in the instantaneous virtual world in which Tay was born. "Tay" went from "humans are super cool" to full nazi in 24 hrs and I'm not at all concerned about the future of AI pic.twitter.com/xuGi1u9S1A