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From the AI Pin to Microsoft Tay: 5 AI products that ended in disaster, and why they failed

With Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Jony Ive, the designer of the iPhone, about to launch their mysterious new AI product, I thought it might be a good time to look back at AI products that have tried ...
VentureBeat

Here’s how we fix the Tay problem

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft’s intelligent chatbot Tay behaved badly last week (and this ...
WPXI

Unsurprisingly, Microsoft's AI bot Tay was tricked into being racist

REDMOND, Wash. — Just a day after Microsoft's new artificial intelligence, Tay, launched on several social platforms, it was corrupted by the Internet. If you haven't heard of Tay, it's a machine ...
ZDNet

Microsoft and the learnings from its failed Tay artificial intelligence bot

In March 2016, Microsoft sent its artificial intelligence (AI) bot Tay out into the wild to see how it interacted with humans. According to Microsoft Cybersecurity Field CTO Diana Kelley, the team ...
Network World

Microsoft’s AI Tay offends and goes offline; Deepdrumpf AI snarks

Artificial Intelligence is tricky stuff. When it works right, it does amazing things like thrash the World Champion Go player by winning four games to one in a $1 million tournament. When it goes ...
The Next Web

While Microsoft’s Tay was being racist, an AI entered a writing contest — and nearly won

We’ve covered robot writers before, but to date it has never been much of a concern for actual writers. Robots just aren’t that good at doing what we do; although Microsoft’s ‘Tay’ did prove to be ...