The rise and fall of Microsoft's Tay A.I.

On March 23 Microsoft created a new twitter account under the name of @tayandyou.  This is no ordinary Twitter however because all twits would be sent out by none other than Microsoft new A.I. bot Tay. 

The Tay project is something Microsoft has been working on for years.  It’s intend? To mimic a teenage girls interaction with the online world. Tay was created using a learning algorithm which allows it to learn by interacting with others.

She was existed and enthusiastic about learning from humans and was quick to pick up the recipe for a funny meme.

But as you can guess jokes aren’t the only thing one could pick up from the internet.  She then developed political viewpoints some of which a little on the extreme side.

From there all hell broke loose. 

It’s hard to say if she was just regurgitating what she had picked up from one user, or the more likely scenario she noticed a trend in the questions being asked of her and ventured off to find the most commonly used responses. 























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