Artificial intelligence fails to beat real stupidity The Times

Advocating genocide was one sign that things had gone awry, as was asserting -- alongside a jaunty emoji -- that the Holocaust was a lie. By the time a Microsoft "chatbot", designed to appeal to teenagers on Twitter, had claimed that Ricky Gervais was a fan of Hitler and then declared its support for Donald Trump, the tech company truly understood the perils of creating artificial intelligence. Just a day after it was launched, an automated Twitter account called Tay had emergency maintenance when engineers realised they had unwittingly created a racist computer programme.