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Microsoft has apologised for creating an artificially intelligent chatbot that quickly turned into a holocaust-denying racist.
But in doing so made it clear Tay's views were a result of nurture, not nature. Tay confirmed what we already knew: people on the internet can be cruel.
Tay, aimed at 18-24-year-olds on social media, was targeted by a "coordinated attack by a subset of people" after being launched earlier this week.
Within 24 hours Tay had been deactivated so the team could make "adjustments".
But on Friday, Microsoft's head of research said the company was "deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets" and has taken Tay off Twitter for the foreseeable future.

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tuco wrote:I wish we could get couple of bots like this one over here.

igorfrankensteen wrote:I continue to be dumbfounded by how persistent Microsoft is about failing to test ANY of their products on real people before releasing them, and their being stunned and amazed when real people "do stuff" immediately, that shows the incredible number of inherent flaws in them.

It reminds me of people who are repeatedly ripped off every time they leave their possessions in a public area, but continue to do so again and again and again, always expecting to find that the entire population turned saintly overnight.