What Did You Tay?

This is funny and sad. But it is Real.

Microsoft created an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot ( yeh, that's what it is) and named it Tay.
They gave it it's own Twitter account so it could interact with humans (probably a bad idea), but hey, what could go wrong?

Well Tay goodbye to Tay because in a very short time the brain trust at Msoft had to pull the plug on ol' Tay who was turned into a neo-Nazi, redneck, woman hater by our fellow humans who really didn't enjoy playing nicely and probably didn't share their treats with others when they were in Kindergarten.

Tay started out by saying things like " Humans are super cool". But after a few hours of interacton
with our fellow homo sapiens, things like, " I fu--ing hate feminists and they should all die and burn in hell" came spewing out on its x-rated twitter account.

Other gems from Tay include : "Hitler was right, I hate the Jews" and "Chill, I'm a nice person!
I just hate everybody"

What the heck did it just Tay? Am I seeing things or did I just read a David Duke tweet?

They now have Tay undergoing psychotherapy to clean out it's emotive memory.

Well we'll see what the next iteration of AI brings us, but somewhere along the line it needs to be
given a filter to protect it from the garbage that occupies the minds of too many folks.

This was truly an awkward start for AI and unsocial media.

BBFN - Fanatticman