Article: Meta takes new AI system offline because Twitter users are mean - The Next Web Meta's Artificial-Intelligence writing tool, Galactica, was taken offline when users received untrue and even offensive content based on their inputs. But, is Galactica "evil" or somehow built to be bad? Or is it the users who are at fault for purposely pushing the tool to make it say things that are wrong or even offensive? Read the article above for this take on how this tool went wrong and why. Come back here for all the latest on Artificial Intelligence News and to learn how to use Artificial Art Tools.

A platform that crowdsources the insights of experts to make predictions on events has come up short in its second attempt to call the Kentucky Derby. It got last year's race exactly right. Unanimous A.I., a company touting the power of collective intelligence to provide insights into the future, correctly predicted the top four finishers of the 2016 Derby: Nyquist, Exaggerator, Gun Runner, and Mohaymen. Anyone who bet their prediction of the top four finishers would have scored a so-called "superfecta" that paid out on odds of 540 to 1. That success earned Unanimous this year an official handicapping partnership with Churchill Downs, the racetrack where the Kentucky Derby is held, and the company once again used its AI platform to analyze input from "some of the best racing minds in the world."

Microsoft had to face an embarrassing moment when'Tay' an automated chatbox malfunctioned and lead to racist and unpleasant tweets. It was within 24 hours of the launch of Tay when a bulk of offensive tweets were reported. Tay's misbehavior and hurtful tweets were accidental. Tay has the ability to get smarter when people talk. It gets inspired by the language and words used by the people. Tay was in most of such conversations, only repeating what other's wanted it to say.

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.