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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Don't mess with Tay Tay. Pop superstar Taylor Swift apparently tried to stop Microsoft from calling its chatbot Tay after the AI-powered bot morphed into a racist troll, according to Microsoft ...

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 ...

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 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Microsoft has admitted it faces some "difficult" challenges in AI design after its chat bot, "Tay," had an offensive meltdown on social media.