Microsoft's AI division is not having a good week. The tech company recently launched "Tay" - an AI chatbot a bot that responded to users' queries and emulated the casual, jokey speech patterns of ...

Taylor Swift tried to sue Microsoft over a chatbot ... controlled by artificial intelligence and was designed to learn from conversations held on social media. But shortly after Tay was launched ...

Microsoft has admitted it faces some "difficult" challenges in AI design after its chatbot "Tay" had an offensive meltdown on social media. Microsoft issued an apology in a blog post on Friday ...

In 2016, Microsoft apologised after an experimental AI Twitter bot called "Tay" said offensive things on the platform. And others have found that sometimes success in creating a convincing ...

These days, Tay is the stuff of legends, a pre-ChatGPT exercise in AI chaos ... singer and our chatbot, and that it violated federal and state laws." Just 18 hours later, the Microsoft president ...

Within 24 hours of its release, a vulnerability in the app exploited by bad actors resulted in “wildly inappropriate and reprehensible words and images” ( Microsoft ). Data training models allow AI to ...

(Again, trained on Twitter.) Microsoft apologized and pulled the plug on “Tay.” Other personality-centric chatbots have emerged over the years: Replika: An AI chatbot that learns from ...

And even at Microsoft, the tendency to anthropomorphize AI has snuck in — remember Tay, the infamous chatbot who quickly became racist when interacting with Twitter users back in 2016?

One infamous example of this trend is Microsoft's artificial intelligence bot, Tay. Microsoft sent Tay out onto Twitter to interact and learn from humans, so it could pick up how to use natural ...

For Microsoft, it was a lesson in how not to train AI. In 2016, the tech giant released Tay, a chatbot designed to build conversational skills by interacting with people on Twitter. Things soon ...

ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini are all part of a wave of generative AI models that have arrived ... Before ...