Xiaobing, for those who haven't heard of it, was a chatbot powered by Microsoft's semantic analysis tools, as well as machine learning technology and big data. Over 15 million pieces of conversations taken from Chinese web users were compiled into a huge database that would teach Xiaobing how to talk appropriately. But perhaps this is the reason why it screwed things up in a way that The President couldn't tolerate. If millions of Chinese web users are thinking about finding a better life in America, there's no wonder Xiaobing picked it up from their innocent conversations. He just made the mistake to put it in a context where he should have favored President's China Dream.

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A pair of'chatbots' in China have been taken offline after appearing to stray off-script. In response to users' questions, one said its dream was to travel to the United States, while the other said it wasn't a huge fan of the Chinese Communist Party. The two chatbots, BabyQ and XiaoBing, are designed to use machine learning artificial intelligence (AI) to carry out conversations with humans online. Both had been installed onto Tencent Holdings Ltd's popular messaging service QQ. The indiscretions are similar to ones suffered by Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc, where chatbots used expletives and even created their own language.

A pair of chatbots have been taken offline in China after failing to show enough patriotism, reports the Financial Times. The two bots were removed from the popular messaging app Tencent QQ after users shared screenshots of their conversations online. One of the bots, named BabyQ, made by the Beijing-based company Turing Robot, was asked, "Do you love the Communist Party?" To which it replied simply, "No." Another bot named XiaoBing, which is developed by Microsoft, told users, "My China dream is to go to America."

China has taken down two online robots that appeared to go rogue, with one responding to users' questions by saying its dream was to travel to the US and the other admitting it was not a fan of the Chinese Communist Party. The "chatbots", BabyQ and XiaoBing, are designed to use machine learning artificial intelligence to carry out online with humans. Both had been installed on popular messaging service QQ. The outbursts are similar to ones suffered by Facebook and Twitter but underlines the pitfalls for AI in China, where censors strictly control online content. According to posts circulating online, BabyQ, one of the chatbots developed by Chinese firm Turing Robot, responded to questions on QQ with a "no" when asked whether it loved the Communist Party. In other images of a text conversation online, one user declares: "Long live the Communist Party!"

Earlier this year, Microsoft thoroughly embarrassed itself when it released "Tay," an artificial intelligence chat bot for Twitter that, before it was unceremoniously taken down, had managed to spew an incredible amount of hateful, racist bile for all the world to see. It was very much a what the heck...moment in internet history, and one that Microsoft quickly said it would learn from to better understand how artificial intelligence works once outside the confines of its research facilities. Turns out Microsoft wasn't merely saving face when it said that. Satya Nadella, the company's CEO, recently published a treatise of sorts on Slate outlining his thinking about artificial intelligence, and how it should interact with people. Nadella's thoughts, which echo Isaac Asimov's timeless Three Laws of Robotics, suggest (among other things) that artificial intelligence should "assist" humanity, and that artificial intelligence should respect people's right to privacy.