First Hitler, now drugs: Microsoft’s racist chatbot returns to ‘smoke kush’

Tay, a Twitter bot created by Microsoft to learn from chatting, was taken offline for tweaks when the internet taught it to share outrageous and racist tweets. The artificial intelligence recently came back online, only to continue misbehaving.

Microsoft created Tay as an exercise in machine learning; the AI bot would modify its own creative patterns based on interactions with real people on platforms such as Twitter, Kik or Groupme, to emulate a young woman on social media.

Last week, to the wonder of internet hooligans, Tay’s chat algorithm allowed “her” to be tricked into making outrageous statements such as endorsing Adolf Hitler, causing Microsoft to put the bot to “sleep” to be recoded within 24 hours .... https://www.rt.com/usa