Last year, Elon Musk praised the work of OpenAI after a team of five neural networks had defeated five humans, who ranked in the top 99.95 percentile of players worldwide, in the popular game Dota 2. The five bots had learned the game by playing against itself at a rate of a staggering 180 years per day. The game requires strong teamwork among the five players and, therefore, the achievement is quite remarkable and more evidence that artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming more advanced. However, directly after the five bots beat the five humans 2–1, Musk cautioned for the power of AI by urging that OpenAI should focus on AI that works with humans, instead of against humans. His statement is in line with his previous warnings for AI, which Musk believes could result in a robot dictatorship or an AI-arms race amongst superpowers that could be the most plausible cause for World War III. With artificial intelligence becoming increasingly sophisticated, also the warnings against AI become more pervasive, and the question remains then, is AI good or bad?

Fox News Flash top headlines for Sept. 10 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com Pop superstar Taylor Swift apparently tried to stop Microsoft from calling its chatbot Tay after the AI-powered bot morphed into a racist troll, according to Microsoft President Brad Smith. In his new book, Tools and Weapons, Smith wrote about what happened when his company introduced a new chatbot in March 2016 that was meant to interact with young adults and teenagers on social media. "The chatbot seems to have filled a social need in China, with users typically spending fifteen to twenty minutes talking with XiaoIce about their day, problems, hopes, and dreams," Smith and his co-author wrote in the book.

This week, Elon Musk praised the work of OpenAI after a team of five neural networks had defeated five humans, who ranked in the top 99.95 percentile of players worldwide, in the popular game Dota 2. The five bots had learned the game by playing against itself at a rate of a staggering 180 years per day. The game requires strong teamwork among the five players and, therefore, the achievement is quite remarkable and more evidence that artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming more advanced. However, directly after the five bots beat the five humans 2-1, Musk cautioned for the power of AI by urging that OpenAI should focus on AI that works with humans, instead of against humans. His statement is in line with his previous warnings for AI, which Musk believes could result in a robot dictatorship or an AI-arms race amongst superpowers that could be the most plausible cause for World War III. With artificial intelligence becoming increasingly sophisticated, also the warnings against AI become more pervasive, and the question remains then, is AI good or bad?

The AI revolution may take longer than some expect to spread from Silicon Valley into other industries. Recent breakthroughs in machine learning have let tech giants such as Microsoft, Google, and Facebook build impressive new businesses and products powered by software that parses text and images. Some have launched cloud services they say can "democratize AI" by helping other companies do the same. But Peter Lee, vice president at Microsoft's research division, said this week that the most valuable, high-end machine-learning systems so useful to tech giants are still too inflexible and expensive for the company to offer its business customers. "We are right now in terms of enterprise application of machine learning and AI concepts in an in-between spot," said Lee at MIT Technology Review's EmTech Digital conference in San Francisco this week.

The bot, which had no consciousness, obviously learned those words from some data that she was trained on. Tay did reportedly have a "repeat after me" function, but some of the most racy tweets were generated inside Tay's transitive mind. However, Tay is not the last chatbot that will be exposed to the internet at large. For artificial intelligence to be fully realized, it needs to learn constraint and social boundaries much the same way humans do. Mark Riedl, an artificial intelligence researcher at Georgia Tech, thinks that stories hold the answer. "When humans write stories, they often exemplify the best about their culture," Riedl told Popular Science.