AI bot has been taken offline to make adjustments after it spewed racism. — -- Microsoft's teenage chat bot "Tay" is in a time-out of sorts after the artificially intelligent system, which learns ...

Tay, the chat bot Microsoft unleashed Wednesday to learn how 18- to 24-year-old social media users expressed themselves, quickly became a racist, misogynist, Holocaust-denying, Donald Trump-loving ...

The story of Tay the Twitter Chatbot is short but spectacular: Microsoft introduced @TayandYou Wednesday morning, and hours later it was decrying feminism and the Jews. Microsoft, of course, has ...

Microsoft is testing a new chat bot, Tay.ai, that is aimed primarily at 18 to 24 year olds in the U.S. Tay was built by the Microsoft Technology and Research and Bing teams as a way to conduct ...

Microsoft issued an apology via the company’s official blog Friday for the “behavior” of its bot Tay, the juvenile (and politically illiterate) bot that came into the world on Wednesday primed to ...

For the next few weeks, the Endless Thread team will be sharing stories about the rise of bots. How are these pieces of software — which are meant to imitate human behavior and language — influencing ...

When Tay started its short digital life on March 23, it just wanted to gab and make some new friends on the net. The chatbot, which was created by Microsoft’s Research department, greeted the day with ...